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What comes after a failed referendum? This week in Crikey we documented the aftermath of the defeated Voice to Parliament proposal and considered who contributed to the outcome, what it means for First Nations peoples and where campaigners go from here.

Elsewhere we delved into what the ABC’s defamation loss means for the public interest defence, picked over the New Zealand election results, and wondered what’s next for Peter Dutton.

Plus we continued to bring you news and analysis about the escalating Hamas-Israel crisis.

Thank you for supporting independent journalism. We hope you're having a restful weekend.
Sophie Black Sophie Black,
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What’s next for Peter Dutton?
BERNARD KEANE

The opposition leader has scored a victory against Labor and the prime minister. Now he may become a victim of his own success.

Peter Dutton (Image: AAP/Jono Searle)
 
The one word that captures the pulse of urban China
WANNING SUN

Speed, efficiency and convenience describe today's China, but the relentless competition takes its toll on its citizens.

A busy street in Suzhou City (Image: Costfoto/Sipa USA/Wang Jiankang)
 
The Voice to Parliament was defeated. So what’s Plan B?
ANTON NILSSON

The Coalition defeated the Voice, but has offered little in terms of a path forward. And if Labor has a Plan B, it hasn't spelled it out yet.

Linda Burney and Peter Dutton (Images: AAP)
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Yes or No, we are still here and we are still Black and deadly
TARNEEN ONUS WILLIAMS

You may have broken our hearts, but you will never break our spirits. We are not going away. And we will not stay silent.

An Aboriginal flag in Canberra (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
 
To close the gap, entrenched beliefs among non-Indigenous Australians must shift
LUKE SLAWOMIRSKI

It's startling to learn from referendum voter data that nearly half don't think First Peoples face more discrimination than 'white' Australians.

Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum papers (Image: AAP/Con Chronis)
 
‘Bullshit’: Wilkie slams A-G’s reason for not intervening in whistleblower trials
ANTON NILSSON

The independent MP reveals what Mark Dreyfus told him about his reluctance to end the prosecution of two whistleblowers.

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
 
What brings ASIO out of the shadows?
CHARLIE LEWIS

Spy boss Mike Burgess wants calm rhetoric on 'both sides' of the Israel-Palestine debate. But what spurs ASIO heads to publicly address a threat?

ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess at ASIO headquarters in Canberra (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
 
How Australia’s media took the easy road on the Voice
CHRISTOPHER WARREN

The No vote was a tragedy for journalists who yearn for a better, more honest way of telling Australia's national story.

The Uluru Statement from the Heart (Image: Reuters/Alasdair Pal)
 
The referendum’s result holds up a mirror to Australia, and the reflection is ugly
MAEVE MCGREGOR

Labor's failure to acknowledge the role of racism in the Voice campaign was both unwise and dangerous.

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
 
‘Watching your parents negotiate the terms of an open relationship’: New Zealand’s election results
REBEKAH HOLT

With votes still to be counted, it looks likely that New Zealand's National Party will need to form a coalition with both ACT and NZ First.

New Zealand Prime Minister-elect Chris Luxon (Image: AAP/Dom Thomas)
 
How can we find out what’s happening in Gaza? 
CHRISTOPHER WARREN

With global broadcast media on the Israel-Hamas conflict being shaped by establishment views, and social media overrun with misinformation, there seems to be few places to turn.

Houses in the Gaza strip destroyed by Israeli strikes (Image: AAP/EPA/Mohammed Saber)
 
Could truth in political advertising laws have saved the Voice debate from lies?
DAANYAL SAEED

Lies and confusion ran rampant over the course of the campaign, but Labor was caught in a mire of its own making, say MPs and analysts.

Independent MPs Kate Chaney and Zali Steggall (Images: AAP)
 
Humanity until infinity: Will the world find its heart before it’s too late?
RACHEL COGHLAN and MHOIRA LENG

Over the last 11 days, our colleagues in Gaza have been reaching out to us intermittently via WhatsApp. Now, they're silent.

A doctor at the scene of Al-Ahli hospital after an air-strike in Gaza City (Image: EPA/Mohammed Saber)
 
The reckoning for decades of Israeli occupation is upon us
ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN

Wilful blindness towards the citizens of Gaza, so common in the global Jewish diaspora, leads to the dehumanisation of an entire population.

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City (Image: AAP/Mohammed Saber)
 
What Heston Russell’s ABC defamation win means for new public interest defence
DAANYAL SAEED

The latest test of Australia's defamation laws shows that some may have celebrated the new public interest defence too early.

Heston Russell speaks to media outside the NSW Federal Court (Image: AAP/Bianca De Marchi)
 
After defeat, the Yes commentariat identify their true enemy: the Australian people
GUY RUNDLE

The campaign and defeat has brought out totalitarian instincts, with the No case portrayed as symptom, rather than argument.

Members of the public voting in the Voice referendum (Image: AAP/Richard Wainwright)
 
Israel’s supporters hide behind its high-tech means to avoid confronting the horror of mass civilian slaughter
GUY RUNDLE

Thirty years of knowing how imperialism and manufactured consent work do not lessen one's horror here, at a liberal elite willing to support coldly dealt-out mass death.

Bodies of Palestinians killed by an explosion at the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza (Image AP/Abed Khaled)