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Attorney-General Garfield Barwick to Gordon Bryant, Member for Wills, on Aboriginal citizenship

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This letter explains that theoretically Aboriginal Australians are citizens, but their rights as such are constrained by State legislation.

This letter explains that theoretically Aboriginal Australians are citizens, but their rights as such are constrained by State legislation.

Source: 9 July 1959, Box 10/4, Council for Aboriginal Rights (Vic.), Papers, MS 12913, State Library of Victoria



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