Australians vote in favor of a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_referendum,_1967_(Aboriginals)" id="mw3w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Australian referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)">constitutional referendum</a> granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians" id="mw4A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Indigenous Australians">Indigenous Australians</a> and to count them in the national census.