In what year did Aboriginal Australians win the vote?

Answer 1

Many sources state that a referendum to change the Australian Constitution in 1967 gave indigenous people the vote, and even many Aborigines themselves are of this belief. This referendum actually removed a provision from the constitution that excluded Aboriginal people from census figures which in turn were used to calculate the distribution and boundaries of electorates. This constitutional revision was required to correct the anomaly that while Aboriginal people already had the vote they were not included in the calculations used to make for electorates with approximately equal numbers of voters.

Australian Aboriginals' right to vote varied from territory to territory with some (including women) having the right to vote (though rarely exercised) from the 19th century. Federal legislation in 1949 and 1962 formalized voting qualifications for Aboriginal people and with the State of Queensland introducing legislation in 1965, all Australians of Aboriginal descent then had full voting rights in all parts of the country and were able to vote in the referendum that supposedly 'gave them the vote'.

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Answer 2

Aboriginals had the right to vote right back in colonial times. When the constitutions of Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia were framed in the 1850s they gave voting rights to all male British subjects over the age of 21, and this included Aboriginal men. In 1895 when the South Australia gave women the right to vote and hold a seat in Parliament, that right was granted to Aboriginal women as well. Only in Queensland and Western Australia were Aborigines not permitted to vote. Aboriginal men and women also voted for the first Commonwealth Parliament in 1901.

Answer 3

In 1962 all Aboriginals could vote. In 1949 they could if they were involved in defence forces.

Answer 4

they never did and they never will they are always suppressed.