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I have reverted your revisions to the section on female suffrage because the previous version was more accurate and your revisions are not supported by the cited sources. For example, the reinstated version states that the introduction of female suffrage in WA had some racial restrictions. These aren't weasel words, but an attempt to briefly and accurately summarise a complex issue. The restrictions were on aboriginal, Asian and African voters who were not naturalised British subjects and who did not meet the property qualification for voting. So it is wrong to say that only "White" women for enfranchised - Aboriginal, Asian and African women who met the property qualification and were British subjects could also vote, as could "non-White" women of other origins who were British subjects and met the residency qualification. Also your changes give the misleading impression that racial restrictions were uniform across the States and Commonwealth and that only "White" women benefited from the female franchise. This isn't the case, Restrictions varied from state to state and also between the states and Commonwealth, and racial restrictions were a separate issue from the female franchise per se. I agree that the article doesn't fully reflect the complexity of the situation, but we need to remember that it is a general article on the history of Australia which can't be expected to go into the details. I think the article as it stands makes it clear that there were racial restrictions on voting and that this was separate from the extension of female suffrage. Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 12:53, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
Whether or not Aboriginal men were actually on the Victorian electoral roll prior to 1901 would become crucial in determining whether they could vote federally. In a provision designed to protect the rights of the women who had already won the vote in some States, section 41 of the Commonwealth Constitution provided that people who had the vote at State level could not be prevented from voting federally. Accordingly, the Commonwealth Franchise Act, which otherwise excluded Aborigines, gave the vote to those Aborigines who had the vote at State level (by means of an exception required by section 41 of the Constitution). But, as Pat Stretton and Christine Finnimore have shown, this provision was defined narrowly to mean that only those voters actually enrolled at the State level prior to 1902 were entitled to the protection of section 41.
Stuart hc (talk) 11:34, 30 December 2022 (UTC)A later interpretation by Garran (in 1912) narrowed the Commonwealth's view even further so that unless an Aboriginal person had actually had their name on a Commonwealth Electoral Roll, the mere fact that they had been enrolled to vote in NSW, South Australia, Tasmania or Victoria before 1902 did not protect their right to vote at Commonwealth elections
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