In an open letter to Anthony Albanese, as well as MPs and senators, Indigenous leaders say the constitution belongs to 'white people'.
Indigenous leaders who supported the Yes case at last week’s Voice referendum have written to the prime minister saying the No vote was a “shameful victory”.The letter said the constitution belongs to "white people" and no reform of it that "includes our peoples will ever succeed"
"That people who came to our country in only the last 235 years would reject the recognition of this continent's First Peoples — on our sacred land which we have cared for and nurtured for more than 65,000 years — is so appalling and mean-spirited as to be utterly unbelievable a week following," the letter reads.
It is unclear who signed the letter but the ABC understands some Aboriginal leaders had distanced themselves from an earlier draft of the statement, and did not want their names associated with it.Until now, First Nations leaders supportive of the Yes case had been observing a week of silence while they processed the defeat of the referendum.
"The truth is that the majority of Australians have committed a shameful act whether knowingly or not, and there is nothing positive to be interpreted from it," the letter reads.The resounding No vote in Western Australia has been met with relief by many who say it was a distraction."Only the shameless could say there is no shame in this outcome.
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