Research Catalog

Title

The 1967 referendum : race, power and the Australian Constitution / Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus.

Author

Attwood, Bain.

Publication

Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Markus, Andrew.

Description

viii, 188 p. : ill., ports., facsims.; 24 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.

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians > Civil rights
• Aboriginal Australians > History
• Aboriginal Australians > Legal status, laws, etc
• Citizenship > Australia
• Referendum > Australia

Note

• Previously published as: The 1967 referendum, or, When Aborigines didn't get the vote. 1997.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1: The Constitution and the power of race -- 2: The Commonwealth and Aboriginal Affairs -- 3: The Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement and Constitutional change -- 4: The 1962-3 Petition Campaign -- 5: The Coalition Government and the demand for a referendum -- 6: The campaign for the 'Yes' vote -- 7: The poll and its consequences -- 8: Remembering and forgetting the referendum -- 9: Reconciliation and Constitutional change -- 10: Race, rights and the Constitution.

ISBN

9780855755553 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007408387

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library