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50 years this month since pivotal '67 referendum

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Later this month, Australia will mark 50 years since the day the country overwhelmingly voted to change its racist laws regarding Indigenous people. Image: A photo from a 1967 march for the referendum (AAP)


The 1967 referendum remains the nation's most successful public vote, although myths still persist about what it achieved.

 

 


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