Indigenous Teacher’s Resource Kit

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/227772691 Source: Museum Victoria

This resource kit aims to:

1. Provide a brief Introduction of what Trove is and what it contains 2. Show you how to navigate Trove’s many zones through the Zone Explorer 3. Introduce you to some of the key materials and collections relating to the 1967 Referendum that you can find in Trove.

Members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are advised that this resource kit contains names and images of deceased people. Please be aware that certain words, terms, or descriptions may be culturally sensitive and may be considered inappropriate today, but may have reflected the author’s and or creator’s attitudes or that of the period in which they were written

1. Introduction Trove is the National Library of ’s discovery experience focused on Australia and Australians.

It brings together big and small collections like entire newspapers digitised and searchable for free, historic photographs to look at online, even biographies about famous and not-so-famous Australians to read. These items come from lots of libraries, museums, galleries, universities, cultural and research organisations into a single place for you to discover them.

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2. Zone Explorer Trove groups together similar content to help you find what you’re looking for. These are called zones, and they’re based on the original format of the work. If you’re looking for a photograph, you’ll find it in the pictures zone and so on.

There are 11 zones, these are:

o Digitised newspapers and more o Journals, articles and data sets o Books o Government Gazettes o Pictures, photos and objects o Maps o Diaries, letters, archives o People and organisations o Music, sound and video o Archived websites (1996-now) o Lists

3. The 1967 Referendum

‘In 1967, after ten years of campaigning, a referendum was held to change the Australian Constitution. Two negative references to Aboriginal Australians were removed, giving the Commonwealth the power to legislate for them as a group. This change was seen by many as recognition of Aboriginal people as full Australian citizens”.

The referendum campaign effectively focused public attention on the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians were second class citizens with all sorts of limitations - legislative and social - on their lives. This decade-long campaign to change the Constitution came to symbolise the broader struggle for justice being fought during these years. Activists presented the case for a Commonwealth government which would be prepared to take responsibility for Indigenous citizens wherever they lived, for the first time’.

Source: http://indigenousrights.net.au/civil_rights/the_referendum,_1957-67

The following are just a sample of the valuable resources you will find in Trove to help you and your students explore the 1967 Referendum and its consequences 50 years on in 2017.

4. Key word search

It is important to use key word or key words when searching through Trove as results may vary.

Books 700+ state, public and university libraries contribute information on their collections. In total there are 21 million books, thesis and conference proceedings. You can very popular items, like 119 libraries that hold copies of The Rainbow Serpent; to very unique items like the Rainbow Serpent Festival 2010 program that only 1 Australian library still holds. Here are three books that will help you explore the topic of the 1967 Referendum.

Title: The 1967 referendum : race, power and the Australian Constitution

‘On 27 May 1967 an overwhelming majority of electors voted in a national referendum to amend clauses of the Australian Constitution concerning Aboriginal people. 27 May 2007 is the 40th anniversary of this landmark event. This book explores the legal and political significance of the referendum and the long struggle by Australians for constitutional change.’

Format: Book (2nd ed.) Published: Aboriginal Studies Press c2007 Author: Bain Attwood Year: 2007 Held by: 140 Australian libraries

Title: No small change : the road to recognition for indigenous Australia

Australians voted overwhelmingly in favor of removing two references from the Constitution that discriminated against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Nearly 50 years later, the journey continues….

Format: Book Published: St. Lucia, Queensland University Press, 2015 Author: Frank Brennan (foreword by Patricia Turner) Year: c.2015 Held by: 89 Australian libraries

Pictures, photos and objects Search over 250 Australian pictures, artworks, posters, drawings and objects from Australian museums, libraries, galleries, archives and historical societies that share their collections with Trove.

Title: Referendums to be held on Saturday, 27th May 1967

‘Referendums to be held on Saturday, 27th May 1967 on the proposed laws for the alteration of the Constitution entitled – Constitutional Alteration (Parliament) 1967 and Constitutional Alteration (Aboriginals) 1967 – The Arguments For and Against

Format: Booklet (W150mm x D5mm x H240mm) Date: 27 May 1967 Held by: Jack Horner Collection, National Archives of Australia

Title: Personalities - Lobbyists from the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders meet with Prime Minister in February 1967

Lobbyists L-R – Gordon Bryant, MP, , Harold Holt, Pastor Doug Nicolls, Burnum Burnum (Henry Penrith), Win Branson and WC Wentworth.

Format: image A1200. Date: February 1967 Held by: National Archives of Australia

Title: Yes for Aborigines : write Yes for Aborigines in the lower square May 27th

Poster for the Yes campaign for the Federal Referendum on 27 May, 1967, depicting the face of an Aboriginal infant.

Format: Pic Poster Drawer 285 – black and white 31.2 x 35.7 Date: 1967 authorized by Faith Bandler Published: : Witton Press, [1967] Held by: National Library of Australia Digitized Material

Journals, articles and data sets Publications including journal articles and reports are just the start of content in this zone. There is more than 150 million items to discover along with some very unique Australian content such as press releases from members of the Federal Parliament and digitised historic Australian journals.

Title: The 1967 Referendum Four Decades Later

Australia’s 1967 Referendum gave the Commonwealth power to make laws specifically to benefit Aboriginal People and amended the law which prevented Aboriginal Australians being counted as Australians in any census.

Author: Jackie Huggins Published: Winter 2007, The Sydney Papers Format: Journal Article Held at: 102+ Australian libraries

Title: Indigenous voting rights in Australia

One of the more persistent Australian political myths concerns the 1967 Aborigines Constitutional Referendum…..

Author: Scott Bennett Published: Autumn 2001 Format: Journal Article Held at: 95+ Australian libraries

Title: Yes! The 1967 Referendum [electronic resource]

This online exhibition is a tribute to the thousands upon thousands of voluntary campaigners who worked tirelessly for a decade educating a nation, towards a referendum Australian had to have, which was held on 27 May 1967.

Published: 2007 Physical description: texts, pdf’s and audio. Held by: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Digitised newspapers and more The National Library of Australia in collaboration with partners have digitised and made available online for free historic Australian newspapers dating from the very first issue of the Sydney Gazette in 1867. So far more than 21 million pages have been searched with more pages being digitised every month.

Title: Aborigines Canvass MP’s

A group of Aborigines canvassed Members of the Parliament in Canberra yesterday for their support in the execution of the May 27 referendum to give Commonwealth power to include Aborigines in census counts and to legislate in matters concerning Aborigines.

Date Published: April 20 1967 Newspaper: The Canberra Times (ACT) Available on Trove digitized: The Canberra Times has been digitized from 1926 to 1995.

Title: Aboriginal Affairs Aboriginal Affairs

Since 1967, when the road to self-determination for Aboriginal peoples was cleared by 90.2% approval in the Census count…

Date: 22nd October 1991. Published: Tharunka, NSW Newspaper: Tharunka (Kensington, NSW) Available on Trove digitized: Tharunka, the University of Student newspaper, has been digitized from 1953 to 2010.

Music, sound and video Printed music, sheet music, musical sound recordings and interviews with significant people are just some of the items made accessible on Trove. There are over 250 thousand digitised online freely available radio broadcast segments from the ABC’s radio National dating back from today till 1989.

Title: The time was ripe: remembering the 1967 Referendum

A special program commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum.

Creator: Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National (Organisation) Producer: Daniel Browning (Presenter) Format: Audio (with transcript) Published: Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National. Held by: 2 Libraries

Title: Vote yes for Aborigines

Documentary about the 1967 Referendum and the fight for citizenship rights for Aborigines.

Writer/Director: Frances Peters-Little Cinematographer: Simeon Bryan Creators: Ronin Films with Denise Haslem and Deborah Cheetham. Format: DVD (57 mins) Published: c2007 Held by: 50 plus Australian libraries

Maps Search maps of Australian and the world from printed sheets, atlases globes and aerial photographs to star charts and rare maps.

Title: Map showing the distribution of the Aboriginal Tribes of Australia

Map is from the Royal Society of South Australia – tribal names are written in the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association as adapted to Australian languages by a committee at the University of Adelaide 1930-31.

Creator: Norman. B. Tindale (1900-1993) Published: Adelaide T.F.E Moore, Government Photolithographed, 1940. Physical Description: 1 coloured map ; 64 x 76 cm Time period: 1940 Held by: The State Library of NSW

Title: Aboriginal Australia

Map of Australia showing the names of tribal/language groups of the Australian Aboriginal people that occupied that area as documented in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia, grouped by regional names.

Creator: David Horton, 1945 - Published by: Australian Surveying and Land Information Group Physical Description: 1 coloured map Date: c2000 Collection: AIATSIS Held by: 20+ Australian libraries

Diaries, letters, archives The very special and personal archives including diaries, manuscripts, letters, business records, photographs come from archives, State Records Offices, state libraries and universities.

Title: Ephemera relating to the Australian federal election campaigns

Federal Election material from the election campaigns including: press releases, policy speeches, voting cards and advertising materials.

Published: 1901 – Physical Description: posters & banners Creators: Australian Electoral Commission Held by: National Library of Australia Digitized item

Title: Proposed Referendum

This collection comprises over 780 transcripts of radio talks by Malcolm Fraser spanning his entire parliamentary career.

Author: Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister Published: c.1967 Physical Description: Press Statement Held by: University of Digitized Collection

Archived websites (1996-now) The National Library and partners have been building our collection since 1996 and preserving them. Many significant websites such as the Sydney Olympic Games are no longer available on the web but accessible through Trove.

Title: The time was ripe: remembering the 1967 Referendum

Put simply, the referendum proposal asked if clauses should be removed from the Constitution which impeded the power of the Commonwealth in Aboriginal affairs, and secondly, if Aboriginal people should be ‘reckoned’ in the census.

Archived: 02 July 2007 13:11pm Collection: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Commemorative Collection Preserved by: AIATSIS

Title: The 1967 Referendum : The Struggle for a New Deal for

Legal discrimination against Aborigines at local, state and Commonwealth levels became a particular focus of Aboriginal Rights campaigning.

Archived: 10 September 2014 11:10am Collection: Online Exhibition Preserved by: The University of Queensland

People and organisations Discover biographical information about significant people and organisations from Faith Bandler (Author and Campaigner) to Joe McGinness (President of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders 1958-1978).

Title: Turning the tide : a personal history of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

Established activities of FCAATSI from 1958 till 1970; goals, campaigns, equal wages, land rights, 1967 Referendum, human rights. Members include; Doug Nicolls, Pearl Gibbs, Stand Davey, Ken Brindle, Jack Horner, Dulcie Flower, Gladys Elphick, , Jim Keeffe, Evelyn Scott, Hannah Witton, Emil Witton, Joe McGinness, Rodney Hall, Bert Groves and Gordon Bryant.

Author: Faith Bandler Contributors: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Published: Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Date: 1989

Title: Portrait photograph of Charles Perkins

A black and white gelatin print on card showing the face of a man wearing a white collar over a pin striped jacket.

Creator: Jon Lewis Description: Object, Portrait photographs Collection: Jon Lewis Collection Held by: National Museum of Australia

Title: Faith Bandler aboard the MV Australia en Route to the World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship in Berlin, 1951.

Creator: Joyce Evans Published: 1951 Description: 1 photograph : black and white Collection: Joyce Evans Photograph Collection of Demonstration and youth events 1949-1951. Held by: The National Library of Australia

Lists Lists allow users of Trove to collect things together that may be similar in nature or category and organise them either for their personal work or others to use. Trove users have already put together several useful lists that will help you find more resources about the 1967 Referendum. Below is just an example of one.