Everything You Need to Know About the Referendum to Recognise Indigenous Australians

Detailing how the Australian Constitution was drafted, this book shows how Aboriginal peoples came to be excluded from the new political settlement, and provides what Australians need to know about the proposal to recognize Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution. It explains what the 1967 referendum—in which more than 90 percent of Australians voted to delete discriminatory references to Aboriginal people from the Constitution—achieved and why discriminatory racial references remain. Close ...