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

<p>This book explains everything that Australians need to know about the proposal to recognise Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. <em>Recognise </em>is essential reading on what should be a watershed occasion for our nation.</p>