evidence: The claim: Until the 1960s, Australia classified its Aboriginal population as animals under the Flora and Fauna Act [...] There is no evidence of a Flora and Fauna Act under Australian law that classified its Aboriginal population as plants and animals. While the claim speaks to frustrations many Australians harbor around Indigenous equality, we rate this claim FALSE because it is unfounded by law and concluded false by multiple scholars. [...] - Australian Broadcasting Corporation, March 19, 2018, "Fact check: Were Indigenous Australians classified under a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum?"