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Sports gear for Canberra Raiders 2020 Men’s Indigenous Jersey Sale
Canberra Raiders 2020 Men’s Indigenous Jersey
The Raiders jersey includes artwork related to Reconciliation Day 2020, Monday June 1, 2020.
ACT was Australia’s first jurisdiction which established a Reconciliation Day. On Thursday, September 14, 2017, the ACT Legislative Assembly passed a bill that would amend Australia’s Holidays Act. The bill also received support from three parties. This public holiday is held annually to commemorate the 1967 anniversary of the Australian Referendum. National Reconciliation Week takes place.
This was called the Australian Referendum by the Holt Government. Two amendments of the Australian constitution were approved by parliament on 27 May 1967. The amendments were approved by overwhelming support. 90.77% voted in favour of them. These amendments also amended sections 51(xxvi), and even 127. The result was that Aboriginal Australians became part of the population calculation and the Federal Legislature had the authority to legislate for them.
These amendments were not designed to grant Aboriginal persons the right to vote, as it was introduced in 2012, or citizenship. Many of the discriminatory federal-state laws against Aboriginal persons had been repealed in 1967.
Raiders NRL, Round 12, will feature this Indigenous Jersey.
