Everything you need to know about the referendum to recognise indigenous Australians

Intro -- HalfTitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Timeline -- 1 Making the Constitution -- 2 The 1967 referendum -- 3 A new era? -- 4 The journey to recognition -- 5 What did the Expert Panel recommend? -- 6 The Referendum Council and Uluru process -- 7 Voice, Makarrata Commission and Truth -- 8 Responses to the Uluru Statement -- 9 Yes to the Voice? -- Appendix: Uluru Statement from the Heart -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

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. Co