Everything you Need to Know About the Referendum to Recognise Indigenous Australians

Megan Davis · George Williams

Feb 2015 · NewSouth

About this ebook

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. 

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Thanks to a multi-million dollar advertising campaign aimed at the 97% of Australians who are non-Indigenous, even if every Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander votes NO to Recognise, their voices of opposition will be obliterated by all the Australians who have been fooled in to voting YES to "support" Indigenous Australia. If you are considering a yes vote, PLEASE READ THE INDIGENOUSX RECOGNISE SURVEY to understand the views of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Australians on this referendum, & to get a glimpse of the irrevocable consequences Indigenous Australia may face if the govt does get the yes vote they are so invested in achieving.