As it happened: Referendum overwhelmingly rejected; All states on track to vote No; Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says loss will not divide Australia

That's where we'll leave our live blog for tonight.

The Voice referendum has been resoundingly defeated, with all six states on track for a No majority and the national vote also rejecting the proposal.

It appears the ACT will be the only Australian jurisdiction to vote Yes.

A disappointed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the referendum's defeat would not divide the country, while Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said the result was a positive for the country.

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Dutton criticised Albanese's leadership during the referendum campaign.

"What we've seen tonight is Australians, literally in their millions, reject the prime minister's divisive referendum," he said.

"The prime minister clearly was not across the detail, and he refused to explain or answer reasonable questions from Australians.

"He has held the pen of this definitive chapter in our nation's history, and if he has any strength in his leadership, he must take responsibility for it."

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who backed the No campaign, thanked No campaigners, who he said suffered from "deeply personal and offensive attacks".

"This result does not divide us as a people," he said.

"What matters is that we all accept the result in this great spirit of our democracy."

He said he wanted to help improve the lives of Indigenous Australians but said the Voice was not the best option to do so.

"The Coalition, like all Australians, wants to see Indigenous disadvantage addressed.

"We just disagree on the Voice being the solution."This is the referendum that Australia did not need to have.

"The proposal and the process should have been designed to unite Australians, not to divide us."

You can watch the prime minister's full address to the country in this video here.

A powerful image from Nine press gallery photographer Alex Ellinghausen as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indigenous Australians Linda Burney share a moment after the referendum failed to pass.

Albanese quotes UK wartime leader Winston Churchill as he ends his speech.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts," he said.

He reiterated his government would do what it could to close the gap, advance reconciliation and listen to First Australians.

Albanese has brushed off questions if he'll have another referendum, such as on Australia becoming a republic.

"I made it very clear that this was the only referendum that I was proposing in this term," he said.

He took aim at previous governments for not holding a Voice referendum.

"Indigenous Australians had waited for a long period of time for a government to have the conviction to put this to the Australian people," he said.

He said some Indigenous people had spent a "lifetime" struggling to be recognised.

"I had a duty," he said.