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Author Attwood, Bain.

Title The 1967 referendum, or, When Aborigines didn't get the vote / Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus ; in collaboration with Dale Edwards and Kath Schilling
Published Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1997

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Description xi, 155 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary On 27 May 1967 an overwhelming majority of electors voted in a national referendum to amend clauses of the Australian Constitution concerning Aboriginal people. 27 May 2007 is the 40th anniversary of this landmark event. The referendum is commonly considered the turning point in Australian historical and cultural life. The historic moment when citizenship rights were granted ? including the vote ? and the Commonwealth finally assumed responsibility for Aboriginal affairs. This book explores the legal and political significance of the referendum and the long struggle by Australians for constitutional change
Analysis Aborigines
Constitutional Alteration (Aboriginals) 1967
Constitutional reform
Federal issue
Human rights
Referenda
Torres Strait Islanders
Notes Aboriginal content
Bibliography Bibliography
Notes Featured in the Freedom Then Freedom Now Exhibition, in the Philip Bacon Heritage Gallery at the State Library of Queensland from May through October 2017 SLQ
Subject Australia. Constitutional Alteration (Aboriginals) 1967
Australia. [Constitutional Alteration (Aboriginals) 1967]
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Aboriginal Australians -- Suffrage -- History.
Citizenship -- Australia.
Referendum -- Australia -- History -- 1967
Referendum -- Australia.
Author Edwards, Dale (Dale Leslie)
Markus, Andrew.
Schilling, Kath.
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
LC no. 98156030
ISBN 0855753110
Other Titles When Aborigines didn't get the vote
When Aborigines didn't get the vote