The Voice failed in under 90 minutes, but it’s been failing in slow motion all year - a podcast by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

The Australian people have spoken. They do not want an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to parliament enshrined in our constitution.

But how did we come to this result? Were our votes determined by our age, socio-economic status and political allegiances? By where we live? By fear, or, conversely, hope?

And where do we go from here? Is “reconciliation dead”, as one key ‘Yes’ advocate has claimed? Has this result “poisoned” our nation, in a way that cannot be remedied? Or does it leave the door open to a more humane way of viewing Indigenous disadvantage in our country, as one leading ‘No’ campaigner argues?

Today, chief political correspondent David Crowe on what we can learn from this historic referendum.

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