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The Act denied federal voting rights to every "aboriginal native" of Australia, Asia, Africa, or the Islands of the Pacific (except New Zealand) who did not already have the right to vote in state elections. 1922 Regulations in the Northern Territory excluded Indigenous people from voting. Officials had the power to decide who was Indigenous.
The second question of the 1967 Australian referendum of 27 May 1967, called by the Holt government, related to Indigenous Australians.Voters were asked whether to give the Commonwealth Parliament the power to make special laws for Indigenous Australians, [1] and whether Indigenous Australians should be included in official population counts for constitutional purposes.
The Letters Patent establishing the Province of South Australia of 1836, which were issued during the period of British colonisation of South Australia, included recognition of the rights of the Aboriginal peoples of South Australia [6] [7] – the first ever recognition of Aboriginal rights on the continent – but the promise was never kept. [8]
Demands of the Tent Embassy have included land rights and mineral rights to Aboriginal lands, legal and political control of the Northern Territory, and compensation for land stolen. [ 241 ] The National Aboriginal Consultative Committee (NACC) was the first elected body representing Indigenous Australians on the national level, having been ...
The New Deal for Aborigines (or Aboriginal New Deal) was a landmark Australian federal government policy statement on Indigenous Australians.The policy was announced in December 1938 by interior minister John McEwen and detailed in a white paper released in February 1939.
Today, Indigenous sovereignty generally relates to "inherent rights deriving from spiritual and historical connections to land". [1] Indigenous studies academic Aileen Moreton-Robinson has written that the first owners of the land were ancestral beings of Aboriginal peoples, and "since spiritual belief is completely integrated into human daily activity, the powers that guide and direct the ...
Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 1966: South Australia: Land rights Aborigines Act 1969 (NSW) New South Wales: Control [14] Aboriginal Lands Act 1970: Victoria: Land rights Aboriginal Affairs (Arrangements with the States) Act 1973: Commonwealth of Australia: Inter-governmental administration National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW) New South Wales ...
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and ... Indigenous land rights in Australia; List of Aboriginal missions in New ...