From Gary Pead
It should be remembered in Referendum Week that in 1967 Territorians (ie, citizens of the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay) along with Aboriginal people were also not full citizens. Only after the 1967 Referendum were they also accorded the full right of a citizen to vote in referendums.
The Canberra constitutional elected representative for the people of Canberra was my father Jim Pead MBE (late Gold Coast resident of Broadbeach).
It is embarrassing to those of us who care that that full citizenship recognition for white Australians was fixed so quickly in 1967and yet the non-inclusive constitutional recognition of First Australians remains un-fixed.
Particularly galling is the almost complete ignorance of Indigenous Gold Coast stories which should be the told as an integral part of the developed tourism package. What a pity such inclusive vision is blocked by a high-rise building or a cruise ship.
