Talk:Australian Aborigines
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[edit] Why redirect removed, and stub article intiated
The absence of an article specifically on Australian Aborigines, who in fact exist as a legal class/category in Australian law .. was recently discussed here .. following which it was found to be useful and necessary to initiate this stub. Bruceanthro (talk) 15:30, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Some Chronological Notes for Proposed Expansion
Notes for proposed narrative:
1898': Colonial Delegates meet at Conventions to draft a consitution for the new Commonwealth[1]:
"The Aborigines .. surfaced in the endless debates surrounding the population quota that would govern the distribution of seats for the House of Representatives and the proposed Commonwealth’s rights to make laws that would guarantee a White Australia. As Edmund Barton rather patiently explained to Isaac Isaacs at the Melbourne Convention in 1898, the quota for each electorate was established after the number of Indigenous people (along with ‘aliens not naturalised’) had been subtracted from the total population. (Debates 1898, 4, 713-4). Finally, it was decided to exclude Indigenous Australians from any population count used for either the financial or electoral purposes included in the constitution. And to handle the rather vexed question of the Commonwealth’s power to legislate on matters of race and immigration, the Aborigines were excluded from the proposed section. These decisions were enshrined in Section 51 and Section 127 of the new constitution."(Page 3)
1910: Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics seeks to estimate the size of the Australian Aboriginal population, at time of decentenial population census[1]
1925: Conference of Commonwealth Statisticians recommends, and Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics announces annual census[1]
For two decades Aboriginal population figures were collected annually by Aboriginal administors (often patrol officers and policemen) classifiying people as full blood or half-caste[1]
1945 Conference of Commonwealth and State Statisticians recommended, and Aborignal population figures ceased to be collected[1]
1967: The 1967 Referendum changed section 127 of the Constitution to allow Aboriginal people to be included in official Census population counts [2]
1971: The 1971 Censuses asked each indigenous person's racial origin[3].
1976: The 1976 Censuses asked each indigenous person's racial origin[4]
1981: Since the 1981 Census the word 'racial' has been dropped from the indigenous status question[5].
1996: The 1996 Census was the first Census to allow people's origins to be recorded as both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander; prior to this only one or the other could be recorded[6].
Bruceanthro (talk) 13:49, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Sources
- CAustralian Law Reform Commission (2003) "Kinship & Identity. Chapter 36 of Essentially Yours: The Protection of Human Genetic Information in Australia Accessed from AustLii Website 12 June 2008
- Trewin, D(2006) Census Dictionary Australia. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Canberra Accessed 22 May 2008
Bruceanthro (talk) 11:42, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Unidentified (2007) The Annual Censuses of Aborigines, 1925-1944: Technical Imperative, Social Demography, or Social Control? Paper Presented to the Population Association of America. Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Accessed 19 May 2008
- ^ Trewin, D. Page 204
- ^ Trewin, D. Page 204
- ^ Trewin, D. Page 204
- ^ Trewin, D. Page 204
- ^ Trewin, D. Page 204
