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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.
In 2021, President Joe Biden directed a steering group to study voting barriers Indigenous voters face, and the resulting report included several recommendations for state and federal lawmakers ...
The following elections occurred in 1967. 1967 Dutch general election; 1967 Icelandic parliamentary election; 1967 Liberian general election; 1967 Mauritian general election; 1967 Nicaraguan general election; 1967 Norwegian local elections; 1967 Philippine Senate election; 1967 Salvadoran presidential election; 1967 Sierra Leonean general election
Direct election of Senators, established by the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, gave voters rather than state legislatures the right to elect senators. [32] White and African American women in the Territory of Alaska earn the right to vote. [33] Women in Illinois earn the right to vote in presidential elections. [27] 1914
At the time the act was signed, an estimated 200,000 Indigenous people were naturalized through previous acts of Congress, including service in World War I and land grants.
As voting-rights advocates look to boost Indigenous representation, some say redrawn political maps dilute the power of Native American voters.
The second question (Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) Bill 1967) related to Indigenous Australians (referred to as "the Aboriginal Race") and was in two parts: whether to give the Federal Government the power to make laws for Indigenous Australians in states, and whether in population counts for constitutional purposes to include all ...
Charles Nelson Perkins AO, usually known as Charlie Perkins (16 June 1936 – 19 October 2000), was an Aboriginal Australian activist, soccer player and administrator. It is claimed he was the first known Indigenous Australian man to graduate tertiary education.