The referendum enabled Aboriginal people to live more as a citizen within communities. Some of the restrictions were taken away from them and they were able to move around out of the communities or the reserves, and onto other areas. But some people went back to traditional lands, others moved to cities, others looked for work where available.

Since the referendum, cattle station owners and other station owners such as from the chief industries could not keep up to the demand of Aboriginal people ‘cause they had to pay equal wages, and that would have put a dent in their budget, so they allowed a lot of Aboriginal people to move away.

Therefore, unemployment became very big because Aboriginal people relied on the work that was given by station masters, although they only received flour, sugar, clothing as a reward for their work.

I think a lot of it's tended from the early development, early settlement of non-Aboriginal people into our lands but taking people away from their lands also had a big impact. But with policies such as assimilation, integration and separation has played a big factor in Aboriginal lives in regards to their connection to land and that. But it also took away a lot of the children away from their mothers and fathers but it also took people again away from their lands.