Modern Sydney · event 4 of 14

1967

The referendum. Australians vote by over 90 per cent to allow Aboriginal people to be counted in the census and the Commonwealth to legislate for them.

The Modern Sydney era

  1. 1947 onwards
  2. 1957
  3. 1966
  4. 1967
  5. 1973
  6. 1971–1974
  7. 1978
  8. 1992
  9. 2000
  10. 2007
  11. 2014–2021
  12. 2015
  13. 2023
  14. August 2024

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