Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Should we be counted? - The 1967 Referendum

Data on Australian Indigenous Peoples only began to be systematically collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1967 - only 40 years ago!
This video explains how the Australian Government came around to the view that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be counted in the Census.
Happily, we are able to call on over 60,000 years of oral history to inform us of our culture and our heritage.
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