Following sustained campaigning, voters approved removing the exclusion of Aboriginal people from constitutional population reckoning and enabling the Commonwealth to legislate for them. The result was an important political victory. It did not itself grant citizenship, voting rights or land rights, and campaigners continued pressing for substantive equality.
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What did Australia’s 1967 referendum approve?
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The constitutional amendments were significant, but citizenship, voting and land rights were distinct questions.
Australia’s 1967 referendum itself granted all Indigenous land rights.
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It changed constitutional provisions; land rights required separate struggles and measures.