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The 1967 referendum : Pictures

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Image 1 - The Australian constitution prevented the federal government from making laws for the Indigenous population, or counting them in a population census. This was changed by the 1967 referendum.

Image 2 - By 1967 there could no longer be any justification for denying equal rights, under the constitution, to Indigenous people. There was no real 'no' campaign against the constitutional change.

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