Readers react to the referendum and the horrors of the Israel/Hamas conflict
See hereSeveral years ago I made my third journey to the Kimberley, in a four-wheel-drive truck with an Aboriginal guide at the wheel. With six passengers, all women friends, we were taken into breathtaking places, met people, saw wonders that left us speechless. I nag people planning holidays to go to the far north, meet the people, see their culture and hear their stories.
To those well-meaning correspondents who think that the 1967 referendum gave constitutional recognition to Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders: it didn’t. The 1967 referendum repealed section 127, which included the following statement: “In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted.” The 1967 referendum put nothing in place of that racist exclusion.
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