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Blackshield, Williams and Fitzgerald, Australian Constitutional Law and Theory Commentary and Materials, Federation Press 1996

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Blackshield, Williams and Fitzgerald, Australian Constitutional Law and Theory Commentary and Materials, Federation Press 1996

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2025

Anne Twomey
Anne Twomey*
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University of Sydney
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Federal Law Review , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 205 - 209
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Copyright © 1997 The Australian National University

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References

1 (1992) 177 CLR 106.

2 (1996) 70 ALJR 200.

3 (1994) 182 CLR 104.

4 (1996) 70 ALJR 200.

5 Commonwealth Electoral Act 1949 (Cth), which inserted s 39(5)(aa) into the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth).

6 It should be noted that although Aboriginal people were not prohibited from voting on racial grounds, they were often prevented from voting due to other rules of disqualification, such as the law that people receiving charitable aid were disqualified from voting.

7 This, of course, was conditional on meeting the other qualifications to vote in the colonies.Grounds of disqualification from'voting included being a woman, a prisoner, a person of unsound mind or a person receiving charitable aid. There were also requirements of residency in the electorate for a certain period of time.

8 (1983) 152 CLR 254.

9 Quick, J and Garran, R, The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth (1901, 1995 reprint) at 485-487.Google Scholar

10 Official Record of the Debates of the Australasian Federal Convention, Third Session, Melbourne 1898 at 1841.

11 Cth Parl Deb 1902, Vol 9 at 11979.

12 Cth Parl Deb 1902, Vol 10 at 13009.

13 R v Pearson; Ex parte Sipka (1983) 152 CLR 254 at 271-272.