The 1967 Australian Referendum was an imperative event which was extremely significant to Australia and the nation’s outcome. It was an event which marked a big leap in embracing the previous inferior Indigenous Australians to be viewed at as more socially and legally accepted in the Australian society. The 1967 Referendum historically was, and still is a triumph in human spirit that continually inspires modern generations consisting of non-indigenous and indigenous individuals. The 1967 Referendum impacted Australia through various factors of the referendum, the significance it had and still has towards our nation and the change it inflicted on Australia.
The referendum was held for several reasons which include: the proposal to include Aboriginal people in the census and the proposal to
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On May 27, 1967, Australians across the nation voted overwhelmingly to change the Australian Constitution. Factors which make this specific Referendum significant and which affected the Federal Government’s choices for making laws for the Aborigines from being included in the census, were removed from the Constitution. The significance of the Referendum was to provide the Federal Government with an evident mandate to implement multiple rules to assist and benefit the Aborigines. Due to the vast number of ‘yes’ votes voted in the Referendum, it set a record in the history of Australian referendums. The amount of ‘yes’ votes weighed up to 90.77% of all votes casted in the Referendum. (http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/auscurric/sampleunit/1967referendum/aboutreferendum.pdf, Accessed 4/04/14). A reason of why Australian’s in past, modern and future generations view the 1967 Referendum to be significant is due to the fact that 44 Constitutional proposals have been put to a vote since Federation, and only eight have passed, and none with such a great and overwhelming majority as the 1967