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Why would an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island person vote yes to Federation? Besides equal rights. |
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Answer» The voting rights of Indigenous Australians became an issue from the mid-19th CENTURY, when responsible government was being granted to Britain's AUSTRALIAN colonies, and suffrage qualifications were being debated. The RESOLUTION of universal rights progressed into the mid-20th century. Indigenous Australians began to acquire voting rights ALONG with other adults living in the Australian colonies from the late-19th century.[1] Other than in Queensland and Western Australia, Indigenous MEN acquired the vote alongside their non-Indigenous counterparts in the Australian colonies. In South Australia, Indigenous women also acquired the vote from 1895 onward.Explanation: |
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