Online exhibitions
These three websites on the 1967 Referendum include biographical information on the campaigners and notes on organisations.
Collaborating on Indigenous Rights: the 1967 Referendum , online at the National Museum of Australia’s website
The Reconciliation Australian website includes biographical information on women of the 1967 Referendum and a series of essays: Perspectives on the Referendum
Online articles
The following articles online give an overview of the 1967 Referendum.
Bennett, Scott, The 1967 Aborigines Referendum. Feature article on the Australian Bureau of Statistics website.
Gardiner-Garden, John, The Origin of Commonwealth Involvement in Indigenous Affairs and the 1967 Referendum, Background Paper 11 1996-97
Summers, John, The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia and Indigenous Peoples 1901-1967, Research Paper 10 2000-01
Links to Teachers Resources
Curriculum Corporation – an activity within the Discovering Democracy Units
Frontier Education Online – for background information
Teachers notes for the book:
Attwood, Bain and Markus, Andrew, The 1967 Referendum: Race, Power and the Australian Constitution, Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007
Links to collections on the 1967 Referendum
National Archives of Australia - Factsheet on the 1967 Referendum
National Film and Sound Archive
National Library of Australia - search Mura Gadi online guide
BackgroundTop
People
The Constitution
Information Sheet on the Constitution - Parliament of Australia, House of Representatives
The Australian Constitution: A Timeline - Australian Law Reform Commission
The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 - Documenting a Democracy, a website of the National Archives of Australia
The Australian Constitution - Parliament of Australia, Senate
State Laws
“To remove and protect: laws that changed Aboriginal lives”. An online exhibition from AIATSIS Library with full text of state legislation which controlled the lives of Aboriginal people around Australia
Stolen Generations in New South Wales
Read, Peter, The Stolen Generations: the removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969, Surry Hills, New South Wales Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 2006
Mission Voices
Koori Heritage Trust. Elders tell of their lives on missions and reserves in Victoria.
Citizenship
Chesterman, John and Galligan, Brian, Indigenous People and Citizenship, in ‘50th Anniversay of Australian Citizenship Conference, Melbourne, July 1999
History of the Australian citizenship - Wikipedia
Australian Citizenship - Wikipedia
Tripcony, Penny ‘ What is citizenship?’ - Queensland University of Technology
Dillon, Colin, Indigenous people and citizenship: a personal experience
Clarke, Jennifer, 'Vote yes for Aborigines' in National Library of Australia News Vol. 16, no. 5 (Feb. 2006), p. 11
Indigenous voting rights
History of the Indigenous vote - Australian Electoral Commission
Book review of ‘Rights for Aborigines’ - The Age, July 19 2003
The Aboriginal Struggle for justice and land rights, by Kim Bullimore. Excerpt, Green Left Weekly issue #433, 24 January 2001
Online exhibitions by the AIATSIS Library with relevance to the 1967 Referendum
To Remove and Protect: Laws that changed Aboriginal lives
Commemorating 40 years of the Freedom Ride
Dawn and New Dawn Magazine: A magazine for the Aboriginal people of New South Wales
Links to articles in Dawn Magazine outline how the New South Wales Government reacted in the months following the Referendum:
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Standing Committee meets in Sydney, Dawn Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 4, April 1968, p. 10
Seasons Greetings, Dawn Magazine, Vol. 16, Nos. 10-12, October-December 1967, p. 1
Minister says Australian conscience on Aborigines disturbed, Dawn Magazine, Vol. 16 No. 8, August 1967, p. 1-2
New Aborigines Bill, Dawn Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 12, December 1968, p. 3-4
Counting in the Census, information online at the Australian Bureau of Statistics
