It is 50 years since one of Australia’s most significant constitutional referendums. In 1967, Australians voted to count Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the census for the first time.
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) invites all councils, libraries and community organisations to join them in a commemoration. The SLQ will livestream its ’50 years and counting’ community event where keynote speaker Dr Chelsea Bond will reflect on the years since the 1967 Referendum.
Dr Bond is a Munanjali and South Sea Islander woman and Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit and an affiliate member of UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health.
She has almost 20 years’ experience working to improve Indigenous health in the south-east Queensland region as a community health worker and health researcher.
A free poster is also available for you to add your library, community organisation or council’s details. You can download the poster here.
You can see a full program of the event here.
Want to know more about the referendum?
Go here to see a series of interviews from the ABC to see what life was like for Aboriginal people before the referendum and during the campaign leading up to 1967.
Go here to see the ABC's 'Right Wrongs' - an in-depth look at the 1967 Referendum.
Go here to see a fact sheet from Reconciliation Australia.