The Latest Breaking News from First Nations

This article is part of a series by The Conversation, Getting to Zero, examining Australia’s energy transition.

There are more than 1,500 remote First Nations communities and homelands around Australia, and about 670 of them have no mobile phone coverage. In research with 495 people from ten remote communities, we found 45.9% were “highly excluded” from increasingly important digital services and tools.

Just as people bury their pets today, First Nations groups across south-eastern Australia often buried their companion dingos. These companion animals were given ancestral burials – similar to family members.

The coalition has questioned the government's commitment to Indigenous people, as Labor lets community leaders digest the referendum result.

My heart is broken. But that so many white people finally saw and acknowledged our country’s racism, is one of the few positives to emerge from this damaging process

In a statement, First Nations leaders called for "A Week of Silence" to "grieve this outcome and reflect on its meaning and significance".

There has never been a decade without a significant Indigenous-led movement in Australia. These movements have centred on the reinstatement of Indigenous peoples’ rights as self-determining peoples, and demands for justice arising from our brutal dispossession and its contemporary fingerprints.

The referendum became by proxy a vote on Indigenous peoples’ right to exist in our own land. Imagine – just try – how that feels today

Despite surveys favouring the no campaign, yes backers remained hopeful as they battled for votes at polling booths on Saturday