In what year did the Alborigines in Australia gain the right to vote?

Answer 1

1967 is often recalled as the year that the Aboriginal people of Australia gained the right to vote, however this is an incorrect date, and an over-simplification of the processes involved. When the state constitutions of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania were framed in 1850s, voting rights were granted to all male British subjects over the age of 21, which included Aboriginal men. However, few Aborigines were aware of their rights and hence very few participated in elections.

The situation became murkier when the Commonwealth Franchise Act was passed in 1902. The Act gave women a vote in federal elections but Aboriginal people and people from Asia, Africa or the Pacific Islands (except for Māori) were excluded unless entitled under Section 41 of the Australian Constitution. Section 41 states that any individual who has gained a right to vote at a state level, must also have the right to vote in federal elections. The Solicitor-General, Sir Robert Garran, interpreted it to mean that Commonwealth rights were granted only to people who were already State voters in 1902. What transpired was a situation where Aboriginals who had already enrolled to vote were able to continue to do so, whereas those who had not were denied the right. This interpretation was challenged in Victoria in 1924 by an Indian migrant, where the magistrate ruled that Section 41 meant that people who acquired State votes at any date were entitled to a Commonwealth vote. The Commonwealth government instead passed laws giving Indians the vote (There were only about 2300 in Australia at the time), but continued to deny other non-white applicants.

In the 1940s, groups began to lobby the Commonwealth government to grant Aboriginal suffrage, and in 1949 the Chifley Labor government passed an Act to confirm that all those who could vote in their States could vote in the Commonwealth. However, little was done to publicise the changes, and many Aboriginal Australians remained unaware of their rights.

In the 1960s, reflecting the strong Civil rights movements in the United States and South Africa, many changes in Aborigines’ rights and treatment followed, including finally full voting rights. The Menzies Liberal and Country Party government gave the Commonwealth vote to all Aborigines in 1962. Western Australia gave them State votes in the same year, and Queensland followed in 1965.

Answer 2

Aboriginal Voting Rights In Australia

Answer 3

The last State to grant Aboriginal people the right to vote was Queensland in 1965. If full adult suffrage is a mark of democracy, Australia has been a democracy for 42 years now. As others have pointed out, they always had the vote in some States - SA and NSW if I remember correctly. They had it federally at Federation but those too young or born after Federation were denied it when they came of age until Menzies gave it back in 1962.

The 1967 referendum allowed the Federal Government to make laws regarding Aborigines (it had been States only til then) and allowed Aboriginal people to be counted on the Census.

Answer 4

In South Australia, Aboriginal men were eligible to vote from the time of the first Parliament in the mid 1800s, although it's doubtful if any did. When women in SA gained the franchise in 1894, Aboriginal women were included, and records show that both Aboriginal men and women did understand and exercise their right to participate in elections, even against opposition from some Europeans.

In those early times, voting was a matter for the individual States, so some Aboriginal people were able to vote, depending on who was in charge, where and when.

Unfortunately, in a series of disgraceful shenanigans and racist politicking, Federation and the decades following led to decreases in rights for Aboriginal and 'non-white' people, including the right to vote, and some who had been able to vote lost their rights.

In 1962, Aboriginal franchise was regained for Commonwealth elections, after many long years of struggle.

In 1967, a referendum overwhelmingly instructed the Commonwealth to include Aboriginal people in the census count of Australians, an act which effectively gave Aboriginal people full citizenship rights, including the franchise.

In 1976, Pastor Sir Douglas Nicholls was appointed Governor of South Australia, the first Aboriginal Governor of any Australian State.

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Answer 5

thats a hard question as the rules where different in each australian state and from 1902 they could vote for state elections but the commenwealth elections varied I believe western australia was 1962 and Queensland 1965

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