When the Prime Minister committed to holding the referendum, polls showed about two-thirds of Australians backed the idea but that support rapidly fell away.
Amongst Indigenous leaders there is now soul-searching about whether the Yes campaign was too slow and too ill-prepared for the debate that followed. This story from the ABC's Indigenous affairs editor Bridget Brennan and producer Ali Russell.
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