1967 shows us the power that such unifying ... but that policy could be developed at all. The referendum’s aftermath also illuminates another point of difference between then and now: a lack ...

May 27 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum. As the date approaches, many are reflecting on a moment that is recalled as one of the great "successes" in the advancement of Indigenous ...

Myth: The referendum gave Aboriginal people citizenship rights and the right to vote Perhaps the greatest myth that persists about the 1967 referendum is that it resulted in Aboriginal people ...

Two years later, in 1967, came the passage under Harold Holt of a landmark referendum which, for the first time, gave the federal government power to make laws for Australia’s First Peoples ...

Victor was just 10 years old. The iconic photo by George Lipman, which ran on the front page of The Sydney Morning Herald two days before the 1967 referendum vote under the headline – “Racial ...

Mr Champion was one of the few Aboriginal people in the region to vote in the 1967 referendum on whether they should be counted in the census. "We were away, out in the bush," he said.