Fifty years ago, 90 per cent of us voted “yes” to recognise Aboriginal people in our Constitution. Now, Samantha Trenoweth charts just how far we’ve come.
Happy NAIDOC week! To celebrate this incredible week, we are reliving some of The Weekly's greatest stories which recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture. Here, Samantha Trenoweth meets two trailblazing women from Central Australia.
The former Governor-General is very proud of her bush childhood and this month she took The Weekly to the wonderful town of Winton, birthplace of the people’s anthem Waltzing Matilda and of Qantas, and the place her parents met, writes Juliet Rieden.