SYDNEY – Australian voters on Saturday resoundingly rejected a historic referendum on aboriginal rights in a move that risks damaging the country’s international reputation and marked a personal, though not necessarily political, blow for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
In a rare effort to change the 122-year-old Constitution, Mr Albanese proposed to formally recognise Australia’s indigenous people and to create a body – the Voice – that would allow aboriginal people to provide advice to the government on issues that affect them.
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