may 27, 1967 - 1967 Referendum

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'An Act to alter the Constitution so as to omit certain words relating to the People of the Aboriginal Race in any State and so that Aboriginals are to be counted in reckoning the Population.'

90.77 per cent of Australian voters voted 'yes'.

The referendum was NOT about citizenship or voting rights. The Aboriginals already had this. The referendum was about the removal of the discriminatory sections of the Constitution.

Aboriginals had been counted to a greater or lesser extent in previous censuses and they all had the vote by 1965.

The referendum marked the change from Indigenous Australians' 'exclusion from to inclusion within' the Constitution.

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