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Remembering the most successful referendum in Australian history

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS EXHIBITION

Participants in the march for Aboriginal Rights referendum on May 29, 1967 Credit: NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA/PR IMAGE

It was 56 years ago ((Saturday 27 May 1967)) when Australians voted to change the constitution to count Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the census. It remains the most successful referendum in Australian history.


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