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Bingo.

Government can still achieve the desired result assuming that actually was the desired result.

The referendum outcome isn't comparable to (for random examples) saying you can't have a bridge anywhere over Sydney Habour or saying that there can't be a uranium mine anywhere in the state. Either of those would be the actual end of a concept.

This is more akin to saying there won't be a direct bus service from your suburb to the event you wish to attend. There is however a bus to the CBD and there are buses from the CBD to the event. You can still get there, just not as directly as you'd originally hoped. To use it as an excuse for not attending at all would be lame to say the least, suggesting you didn't really want to go and were just looking for a reason.

I contend what government's really unhappy about is a situation akin to the worker who was hoping the meeting would last all day. Nope, it didn't. Meeting's over and there's now no reason to not get to work.