Comment

Indigenous Australians' right to vote and the 1967 constitutional referendum

By Jim Belshaw
October 16 2021 - 7:00am
Neville Bonner was the first Aboriginal member of the Australian Parliament, appointed to the Senate for the Liberal Party to fill a Queensland vacancy, in 1971.
Neville Bonner was the first Aboriginal member of the Australian Parliament, appointed to the Senate for the Liberal Party to fill a Queensland vacancy, in 1971.

There is a common view that Indigenous Australians' right to vote is somehow connected with the 1967 constitutional referendum.

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