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The 1967 Referendum, or When the Aborigines Didn’t Get the Vote by Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus with Dale Edwards and Kath Schilling

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November 1997, no. 196
Barry Hill reviews 'The 1967 Referendum, or When the Aborigines Didn’t Get the Vote' by Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus with Dale Edwards and Kath Schilling

This eccentric, laborious book is designed to correct what most of us think about the 1967 Referendum. The popular belief – the authors call it a myth – is that the Australian people then voted to acknowledge citizenship by giving Aborigines the vote, and that this was a Commonwealth thrust towards, crucial, deeper involvement in Aboriginal affairs.

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