Change gonna come, remembering the 1967 referendum

By Michael Gordon
Updated May 20 2017 - 6:08am, first published 6:02am
Angamuthi Yadhaykana Woppaburra woman from Injinoo, Yanti Ropeyarn, who is an educator with the National Library of Australia, in Canberra on Monday 15 May 2017. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Angamuthi Yadhaykana Woppaburra woman from Injinoo, Yanti Ropeyarn, who is an educator with the National Library of Australia, in Canberra on Monday 15 May 2017. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

For Yanti Ropeyarn it was a moment of pure joy, when the significance of what was being attempted on behalf of Aboriginal Australia half a century ago was distilled into a single sentence in a hand-written note in the palm of her hand.

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