The 1967 Referendum
Introduction
Victorian Essential Learning Standards
Teaching, learning and assessment activities
1: Rights for all Australians
2: What is a referendum?
3: The petitions
4: The Referendum campaign leaflets
5: Campaign songs and slogans
6: The Referendum results and aftermath
7: Assessment Task
Further Research Activities
Assessment
Unit resources
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The 1967 Referendum - Level 5 Sample Unit

Further Research Activities

Milestones

Have students complete group research on other timeline milestones in the development of Indigenous civil and political rights. The following contains a list of suggested topics and some resources to start the investigation:

1938 Day of Mourning
www.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/ls3struggles-glance.htm

1965 Freedom Ride
www.freedomride.net/index_html

1966 Wave Hill Strike
www.abc.net.au/message/archive/common/time3.htm

1992 Mabo High Court decision
www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/8822.html

The ‘Stolen Generation’
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/social_justice/bth_report/index.html

Other Referendums

Have students research the campaign, the issues and the results of another referendum. There is a good deal of information available on the recent Republican Referendum.

Visit the Federal Parliamentary Library for a beginning:
www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1998-99/99rp25.htm


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