evidence: A regularly repeated claim in public debate is that Indigenous Australians were covered by a flora and fauna act, which did not classify them as human beings, and that this only changed when the constitution was amended following the 1967 referendum. [...] So, is it true that Indigenous Australians were classified according to a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates. [...] Sources - Shareena Clanton, speaking on the ABC's Q&A program. February 19, 2018 - Federal Register of Legislation - Australian Legal Information Institute - Australian Government Office of Parliamentary Counsel - Reconfiguring History: The 'Flora and Fauna Act' and other myths of the Australian legislation, by Samuel Byrnand, Researchgate, May 2015 - Aborigines classified as animals under flora and fauna act? Wafflesatnoon, June 1, 2016 - Myths persist about the 1967 referendum, by Ron Sutton, sbs,com.au, March 11, 2014 - Were Indigenous (Aboriginal) Australians regulated by the flora & fauna act? By David Walker, Club Troppo, June 3, 2013 - Myths about 1967 referendum should be discarded, Anne Twomey, The Australian, May 26, 2017 - Indigenous recognition and constitutional myths by Helen Irving, Constitutional Critique blog, University of Sydney, June 9, 2015 - 'Right wrongs, write yes': what was the 1967 referendum all about?