SA Aboriginal leaders call for community to come together following resounding No vote
In South Australia, senior Aboriginal leaders are calling for the community to learn from the referendum and come together. They're assessing what comes next as a No result is projected in every SA electorate.
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00:00 In South Australia's north, members of the Aboriginal community are processing the referendum result.
00:08 We just want to be included in the Constitution.
00:15 This referendum has just said to my elders that you will go unseen and unheard.
00:22 Port Augusta sits in the heart of the federal seat of Grey and takes in regional areas like the AP Ylands and Flinders Ranges.
00:30 With nearly 80% of the vote counted, the electorate is currently on track to return one of the biggest no votes in SA.
00:37 How am I going to face the people that opposed the vote? How do I face them?
00:46 None of the state's 10 federal electorates are projected to have voted yes.
00:51 The overall result has raised concern among some elders it could be seen as a rejection of Aboriginal Australia.
00:58 I think a lot of people weren't informed enough or educated enough and made the decision based on their ignorance about us as First Nations people.
01:12 We're a First World nation but yet we're the only First World nation that does not recognise its First Peoples with its constitution as human beings in our own country and it is an absolute disgrace.
01:24 Those who backed the voice say it's time to take stock.
01:28 I think it's going to take at least another month or whatever for us to reflect on this and to be able to find out exactly where we're going to go from here.
01:36 Others say it's a chance to reset.
01:39 But we actually need to learn from this, we need to learn together, come together and work out what we do in the future together.
01:47 Just how to do that may also take time.
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