Efforts to close the disadvantage gap for Indigenous Australians won't be diminished by the voice referendum defeat, with the government pledging to find a path forward.
With counting and ballot checking continuing, the latest Australian Electoral Commission figures show a 60.7 per cent national 'no' vote.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reaffirmed the government's commitment to improving the lives of Indigenous people.
"Our commitment to listening to Indigenous Australians is undiminished. Our commitment to closing the gap is undiminished," he told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday.
"We have to find a new path ... in a constructive, considered way."
His comments came as data from Saturday's poll showed areas with the largest proportion of Indigenous Australians heavily backed the referendum.
The booth with the highest proportion of Indigenous people - Cherbourg in the Queensland electorate of Wide Bay - where 98.88 per cent are Indigenous, returned a 'yes' vote of 58 per cent.
The analysis showed more than three-quarters of voters in the booths of Yarrabah in the Queensland electorate of Kennedy and the Palm Island booth in the seat of Herbert, each with a more than 90 per cent Indigenous population, voted 'yes'.
Electoral commission figures have also shown remote polling carried out in electorates with high Indigenous populations such as Lingiari in the Northern Territory, Durack in Western Australia and Leichhardt in Queensland returned a high 'yes' vote.
Assistant Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy said the nation could have done better and been better, had it voted for the voice.
Asked if the nation had got it right, Senator McCarthy said if the outcome revealed the public did not want to see Indigenous people recognised, she would find that "deeply disappointing".
"It's not right as a First Nations person to have to keep explaining why our history is important in this country ... but we have to obviously keep doing that now because Australians voted 'no'," she told ABC radio on Tuesday.
At a Labor caucus meeting on Tuesday, the minister thanked Mr Albanese for being the only prime minister to listen and accept the invitation extended by Indigenous people.
Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley accused the government of moving on too quickly from the referendum loss, and questioned if it was still committed to implementing treaty and truth-telling.
"If (Mr Albanese) doesn't have the conviction to explain these things, and he's not a conviction politician, he's a coward," she told reporters.
Asked in parliament about Labor's commitment to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Mr Albanese said he had committed to putting the voice to a referendum and respecting the outcome.
"I respect the decision that was made by the Australian people," he said.
"I'm a prime minister who sticks to their commitments and says what I will do ... and then does it."
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has already backed away from a pledge to hold a second referendum on constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians following Saturday's vote.
But he has called for an audit of Indigenous program spending and a royal commission into the abuse of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
Northern Territory MP Marion Scrymgour said Indigenous communities had overwhelmingly supported the voice, despite the country rejecting the change at the referendum.
While her seat of Lingiari returned a 55.7 per cent 'no' vote, remote polling in Indigenous communities recorded a 'yes' vote of 73 per cent.
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