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The 1967 Australian referendum occurred on 27 May 1967 under the Holt government. ... "Research Paper no. 11 2002–03: The Politics of Constitutional Amendment".
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 1967 Australian referendum called by the Holt government on 27 May 1967 consisted of two parts, with the second question relating to Aboriginal Australians. Section 24 of the Australian Constitution requires that the number of members in the House of Representatives be, as nearly as possible, twice the number of members in the Senate. [1]
The Australian people voting at the 1967 referendum deleted the words in italics, moving and centralising the existing State Parliaments' race power to the Federal government. Edmund Barton had argued in the 1898 Constitutional Convention that s 51(xxvi) was necessary to enable the Commonwealth to "regulate the affairs of the people of coloured ...
The final report released on 30 June 2017 by the Referendum Council was largely supportive of the Uluru Statement. The majority of the council recommended that a referendum be held to change the Constitution to establish an "Indigenous voice to parliament". The first recommendation of the Final Report of the Referendum Council recommended: [14]
27 May – Indigenous Australians (technically only the Aboriginal race – see Australian referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)) are given the right to be counted in the national census after a national referendum and legislation changing citizenship laws, but voters reject a third referendum question about breaking the nexus between the sizes of the ...
Bipartisan support is widely regarded as essential for an Australian referendum's success. Only eight of 45 referendums have succeeded in the constitution's 122-year history.
1951 Australian Communist Party ban referendum; 1967 Australian referendum (Aboriginals) 1967 Australian referendum (Parliament) 1974 Australian referendum (Simultaneous Elections) 1977 Australian referendum (Referendums) 1977 Australian referendum (Retirement of judges) 1977 Australian referendum (Senate Casual Vacancies)