AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL –

This book explains everything that Australians need to know about the proposal to recognise Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution.

It details how our Constitution was drafted, and shows how Aboriginal peoples came to be excluded from the new political settlement. It explains what the 1967 referendum – in which over 90% of Australians voted to delete discriminatory references to Aboriginal people from the Constitution – achieved and why discriminatory racial references remain.

With clarity and authority the book shows the symbolic and legal power of such a change and how we might get there. Concise and clear, it is written by two of the best-known experts in the country on matters legal, indigenous and constitutional. Recognise is essential reading on what should be a watershed occasion for our nation.

• vii, 165 pages ; 21 cm #301225

• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Politics and Government – Referenda – Constitutional recognition
  • Law – Constitutional law – Constitutional reform
  • Race relations – Racial discrimination – Legislative
  • Politics and Government – Civil rights and citizenship
  • Politics and Government – National symbols and events – Constitutional recognition
  • Politics and Government – Referenda – Referendum, 1967
  • Australia

  Subject:

  • Referendum — Australia — History
  • Constitutional history — Australia
  • Aboriginal Australians — Australia
  • Australia — Politics and government — History
  • Australian