evidence: As in the ABC this week, The Flora and Fauna Act myth has strong ties to the 1967 Referendum, which in itself has been misrepresented as providing Aboriginal people with citizenship, the vote, equal wages, and human status by overturning the Flora and Fauna Act - all of which are untrue. Further, it is heralded as the point in time when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were finally counted in the national census, which itself is not entirely untrue, but is entirely misleading. Aboriginal people have been counted in the national census since 1911, which was the first official national census after federation. The point that has been twisted here is that the numbers of Aboriginal people were kept separate from the final count of the Australian population. That fact alone is dark enough without throwing more fabricated shade onto it.