This Sunday marks the 45th anniversary of the Referendum. One had to be 21 to vote back then, so everyone who voted would be now sixty six or older. How much has changed in that time ? Who remembers the terrible conditions of life that Aboriginal people had to put up with in many places ?

The 1960s were in many ways a time of very great change, in living conditions, in policy, in hope, and the Referendum certainly pushed that along, thanks to people like Faith Bandler and Doug Nicholls, and Gladys Elphick here in SA. It should be a National Holiday.

Joe