Time to Say No SIR: The review of Keith Windschuttle’s book The Break-Up of Australia (January-February 2017) ahead of the looming referendum takes me back to the 1967 referendum. I was a newly arrived “Pom” and entitled to vote. Knowing very little about the matter, I carefully read the lengthy “Yes” case; I had worked in South Africa and I raised my eyebrows at the power to make apartheid-type laws according to race. The “No” case was significant by its brevity. Since then I have travelled much of the north of Australia and talked to many older people who lived…
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