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home / archives / people and social issues / australian aboriginals / 29th May 1967

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Looking for favor!

The Australian voter had given a 97% YES vote to the enfranchisement of our Australian Indigenous population. Liberal Party Prime Minister Harold Holt, National Party Deputy Leader John McEwen and Opposition Labor Leader Gough Whitlam were the political leaders entrusted with the task.

To a second question voters responded against the proposal that the Nexus between the Senate and the House of Representatives be broken. The number of Members in the House of Representatives is linked to the number of Senators.