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Section 127 excluded "aboriginal natives" from being counted when reckoning the numbers of the people of the commonwealth or a state. [8] His legal advice was that "half-castes" were not "aboriginal natives". [8] Prior to 1967, censuses asked a question about Aboriginal race to establish numbers of "half-castes" and "full-bloods".
Aboriginal persons living in settled areas were counted to a greater or lesser extent in all censuses before 1967. George Handley Knibbs, the first Commonwealth Statistician, obtained a legal opinion at the time that persons of 50 percent or more non-Aboriginal descent were not Aboriginal persons for the purposes of the Constitution.
The language of section 127 does not include the words statistic or census, and consequently the Commonwealth had the power to collect data on the Aboriginal populace, though what was collected lacked quality and comprehensiveness. Its purpose was not to deny information to the government but to give effect to a belief that the indigenous ...
The day used for the census, was taken for the night between 2 and 3 April 1911. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as 4,455,005 – an increase of 681,204 people, 18.05% over the 1901 "Federation" census. [1] [a] [2] The Census Volumes II and III were published on 30 September 1914.
First time First Nations children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of government policies. Now known as the "Stolen Generation". 1912. First Indigenous Australian to win a national boxing title: Jerry Jerome (middleweight). [25] First Indigenous Australian to be awarded a medal for gallantry: Neighbour (Albert Medal). [26] 1916
The 2022 Australian census recorded 167 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages used at home by some 76,978 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. [5] At the time of European colonisation, it is estimated that there were over 250 Aboriginal languages. It is now estimated that all but 13 remaining Indigenous languages are ...
In the 2021 census, people who self-identified on the census form as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin totalled 812,728 out of a total of 25,422,788 Australians, equating to 3.2% of Australia's population [51] and an increase of 163,557 people, or 25.2%, since the previous census in 2016.
A common misconception among non-Aboriginals is that Aboriginals did not have a way to count beyond two or three. However, Alfred Howitt, who studied the peoples of southeastern Australia, disproved this in the late nineteenth century, [citation needed] although the myth continues in circulation today. [1]