Act of Recogition Fades into Sunset

And so the Act of Recognition, and with it the promise of the referendum on Indigenous Recognition, expires at the end of its two year time limit. There is now no firm date set for this referendum – seriously the first step to the Republic – other than PM Abbott’s undertaking  of “2017”, that is after the next election, to mark 50 years since the successful 1967 referendum for the Commonwealth to make laws for the advancement of Aboriginal people and to count them in the national census.