Explain How The Census Did Not Count Aboriginal People

After too many years, when the Australian government decided to grant Aboriginal people with fully rights of freedom again in their country, the number of indigenous people in Australia jumped an amazingly 33 per cent from the 1991 to 1996 census. final

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were treated differently before the war and during the war. They had few rights, low wages and poor living conditions before the war. They were not officially classified as Australian citizens, because of the 'Aboriginal Protectors Act' from 1869, which gave the government more control over them. This meant they couldn't go to a public bar to drink, couldn't vote, couldn't be in a relationship with a non-Aboriginal person, could not own any property and were not included in the census. When the war started and Australia was recruiting soldiers, many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders tried to sign up, as they were

Prior to the arrival of the first fleet in 1788, it is estimated that there were around 750, 000 Indigenous Australians living in Australia. Between 1788 and 1900 there was a depopulation of Indigenous Australians due to not only conflict and violence from the Europeans, but particularly the introduction of new diseases from them. It was undoubtedly true that in the first decades the spread of unknown diseases was rapid and the resistance was so low it resulted in higher death rates. The decreasing population resulted in demoralisation of Indigenous Australians and overruling by the Europeans. This overruling resulted in British Law, which subsequently proceeded to established acts of legislation such as the Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW). But why was this legislation formed? According to the

The attitudes of the white Australians also had a huge impact on change of rights and freedoms as it pressured the government into giving Aboriginals rights and freedoms. The 1967 was testament to this when a huge 90.77% of Australians agreed that Aboriginals had the right to be counted in the census. There has never been any real public objections to giving aboriginals rights, merely quiet harbored prejudices in the persons’ mind. On the other side of the case the Aboriginal rights in general have not improved with many Aboriginals being

Let's take it back to the 27th of May, 1967. The Australian Referendum, called by the Holt Government is about to decide whether or not citizens of Australia believe that Indigenous Australians should be given the right to vote. Although this was a successful referendum, in the government's eyes, this was going to give the recognition that the Indigenous Australians wanted. But it didn’t. The goal was to achieve a transformative lobby to concede the adverse wrongs of our colonial past. If that is so, how is it that 50 years later, this multicultural country and its government are still continuing to fail the First Australians, and ignoring the recognition they deserve - to be recognised in the Constitution.

This report will cover the history of the Aboriginal Voting rights in Australia. The Aboriginals did not gain the right to federal voting at least 150 years after the British colonized in Australia. All citizens of a nation deserve equal rights.

Human rights are the rights of humans, regardless of nationality, gender, race, or religion. We should all have this in common as we are all part of humanity. However, Indigenous people did not always have these rights (Ag.gov.au, 2015). Aside from basic human rights, Indigenous people also have their own rights specific to their culture. Before 1967, Indigenous people had different rights in different states and the Australian federal government did not have any jurisdiction over Aboriginal affairs until Australia’s constitution was amended for this purpose in 1967 (Moadoph.gov.au, 2015). Between 1900 and the present time, there have been significant changes to the rights of Indigenous Australians. The effects of the European Settlement on the Indigenous people of Australia have been devastating. When white people began arriving in Australia, the Aboriginal people believed them to be ghosts of ancestor spirits. However, once they realised the settlers were invading their land, the Aborigines became, understandably, hostile (Slater & Parish, 1999, pp.8-11). In 1788, the total Indigenous population was believed to be between 750,000 and one million. By 1888, the Indigenous population was reduced to around 80,000 Australia wide (Korff, 2014). The three main reasons for this dramatic decline were the introduction of new diseases, violent conflicts with the colonisers, and settlers acquiring Indigenous land (Digital, 2015). In 1848, the Board of National Education stated that it

In 1901 Federation changed the way Australia treated Aboriginal people. The new Australian Constitution agreed that the federal government wouldn’t make laws for the Aboriginal people and the Aboriginal people would not be counted in the census. The next year in 1902 the Franchise act took the Aboriginal peoples votes away. They were still able to vote in some states but not in the federal government.

If there had been to law for the aboriginal and the Australia there would be much better for the aboriginals such as following their own culture and they have a better understanding of the past.

Between 1910-1970, many Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families because of various government policies. The generations of children removed under these policies became known as the Stolen Generations. During federation in 1901, the Constitution states that Aboriginal People will not be counted in the census, and that the Commonwealth has the power to make laws relating to any race of people In Australia except for Aborigines. Kevin Rudd’s sorry speech in 2008 is a significant event in Indigenous Australians receiving civil rights. This point will be proven by previous events and impacts of the stolen generation on Indigenous right and freedoms.

They are discriminated against by immigrants from all aspects. From the beginning, justice for the aborigines did not exist. Therefore, in the following two centuries, all kinds of violence and discrimination against the indigenous people persisted. Although the Australian government has improved its policy on aboriginal people, the previous colonial government and the nineteenth-century Australian government have left indelible influence on the aborigines, such as reduced population, racial discrimination and cultural loss. This essay is going to argue that policies of past Australian Government led to irreversible damage to indigenous people in cultural identity，human rights and health.

Although Aboriginal rights are supposedly protected under the Constitution Act of 1867, the law itself creates racism. This is clearly shown in the Gradual Civilization Act of 1857 where the Aboriginal people were subjected to discrimination as reservations were created for the Aboriginal people to live. The law failed to recognize the traditional territories of the reservations that various tribes

Before the colonization of Britain in 1770, 500 groups of indigenous nations, made up of 750,000 people lived peacefully in Australia with little to no contact with the outside world. After less than 20 years, the aboriginal population of Australian was reduced by 90%. In modern times, these ways of colonization has led them shorter life expectancy, higher rates of mortality, poorer health, lower levels of education & employment than non-aboriginal australian. (source) The deterioration of political power, culture, and economics of the australian aboriginals by British has led to the current issues and problems that they face today in modern society.

The campaign to centralise the decision making around Aboriginal affairs started in the late 1950s and the early 1960s. The Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement, formed in 1958, submitted a petition to parliament calling for commonwealth control on matters affecting the indigenous communities. It called for an ‘Indigenous Affairs’ clause to be included in section 51 of the constitution, which outlines the powers assigned to the federal government. It also called for the repeal of section 127 which prohibited the ‘Aboriginal race’ from being encompassed in the national census. It pointed out that there was next to no uniformity in state laws governing the indigenous population. For example whilst Aboriginals were granted property rights

The collaborative efforts of groups of Aboriginal Australians resulted in the most significant response that was the 1967 Referendum when 90% of Australians voted to include Aborigines in the census and thus removed the constitutional restrictions placed on Aboriginal Australians (‘Collaborating for Indigenous Rights’ National Museum of Canberra). Despite numerous injustices being committed by political and non-political individuals, both non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal people continued efforts to seek equality, justice and access to meaningful public education for Aboriginal people (ab-ed.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au, accessed 14th August, 2010). Accordingly, the success of initiatives such as the establishment of Tranby College