Remembering the 1967 Aboriginal Referendum in Australia

In 1967, more than 90 per cent of Australians voted to include Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the national census, meaning they would no longer be counted among flora and fauna like kangaroos and koalas. The vote also gave the government powers to legislate on indigenous issues and removed words from the constitution which discriminated against Aborigines. Gary Williams, an Aboriginal Elder from Nambucca Heads, remembers what it meant to a 21-year-old Aborigine living in Sydney in 1967.

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