Reviews of The 1967 Referendum: Race, power and the Australian Constitution

Excerpt from reviews of 1967 Referendum, 1st Edition
B Percival, Aboriginal Education K-12 Resource Guide - NSW Department of Education & Training, 2001
The aim of this excellent book is to clarify what the 1967 referendum really meant in legal terms, and also to provide a social and political context to the events leading up to and following the referendum. The book serves as a good overall history of the Aboriginal fight for full citizenship rights and constitutional reform. Included in the second section is a detailed and extensive collection of relevant primary source material, both written and oral, which would be invaluable for curriculum activities.

Excerpt from reviews of 1967 Referendum, 2nd Edition
Australian Historical Studies, 39, 2008
Ownership of the first edition should be no discouragement from acquiring a copy of the new; there are fresh perspectives from the authors and other key players in the new edition. The change in subtitles from one in which the myth-making surrounding the referendum is uppermost, to one in which the words ‘race’, ‘power’, and ‘constitution’ and present, suggests the ways in which the authors have slightly recast their original study…The substantial documents section of the book includes new historical sources that have become available in the last ten years as well as new publications, reflections, and opinion pieces that bear on the referendum, the constitution, and Aboriginal Australians.

Carol Fort, Journal of Australian Studies, June 2008
Attwood and Markus have given … a dynamic case study of how the present rakes over the past to underpin its own aspirations - a confronting thought in its race-relations and power implications for the Australian Constitution.

Thom Blake, The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Vol. 37, December 2008
The 1967 Referendum: Race Power and the Australian Constitution is essential reading for any student of Aboriginal policy in the 21st century in providing a concise but thorough analysis of the 1967 referendum. But is also important for highlighting wider issues. This book is a reminder of the views about Aboriginal people when the constitution was being framed in the late 19th century.