The day after Australians rejected a proposal to recognise First Nations people in the constitution, elder Geraldine Hogarth wept in her Goldfields home.
“It’s a sad day for us. The grief hurts so much, it’s like a knife in your heart,” the Kuwarra Pini Tjalkatarra woman said. Hogarth has lived in Leonora, in Western Australia, all her life and has spent her life’s work advocating for the education and wellbeing of community children – and was awarded an Order of Australia. Now she is wondering where to go from here.
Australia overwhelmingly voted against enshrining an
