Tram Town
Friday, February 02, 2007
| Category: Democracy The AEC has an interesing page on the voting rights of indigenous citizens: Ask Australians when Aborigines got the vote and most of them will say 1967. The referendum in that year is remembered as marking a turning point in attitudes to Aboriginal rights. In one of the few ‘yes’ votes since federation, 90.77 per cent of Australians voted to change the Constitution to allow the Commonwealth to make laws for Aborigines and to include them in the census.I learnt quite a bit from the page. Incidentally, until about ten years ago I would certainly have said 1967. |
