SYDNEY: An Australian right-wing former prime minister, Tony Abbott, called on Friday for the country to scale back flying the Aboriginal flag after a referendum roundly rejected Indigenous recognition and enhanced rights.
Abbott praised Australians for resisting "virtue signaling" when they voted on October 14 by a margin of 61 percent to 39 percent against amending the 1901 constitution to recognize Indigenous peoples.
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