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Australia, 1967 Referendum

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This page is to record and celebrate those activists who set the groundwork, and those who worked towards the 1967 Referendum to change the Constitution in Australia, allowing the Australian Government to make laws in respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and to enable them to be officially recorded in the Australian Census. Please feel free to add to this page if you know of others involved.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Activists for Civil Rights

Name BiographyConnected
Ida Lessing Faith (Mussing) Bandler Yes Yes
Charles Nelson Perkins Yes
Burnum Burnum YesYes
Douglas Ralph NichollsYesYes
Winnie Bransonhttps://www.indigenousrights.net.au/people/pagination/winnie_branson
Pearl Mary (Brown) GibbsYes
Jack Kinchela
Dulcie Flowerhttps://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/dulcie-flower/
John Patten Yes
William Ferguson
William Cooper
Margeret Elizabeth (Clements) Tucker
Shadrach Livingstone JamesYes Yes
WIlliam Townsend OnusYes


Other Activists contributing to the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

Name BiographyConnected
Jessie Mary Grey (Lillingston) Street Yes
John Curwen Horner
Jean Leavitt Cowtan
John Kempsterhttps://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6493438
Gordon Munro BryantYes Yes
Shirley Aldythea Seymour Andrews

Other names to investigate:

John Moriarty
Vincent Copley

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