Talk:Voting rights of Australian Aboriginals

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[edit] Encouragement to enrol was illegal?

I understand that, while all indigenous people clearly had a right to enrol from the 1967 referendum onwards, it was not at that time compulsory for them to enrol. (But if they did enrol, it was compulsory to vote.)

However, I've just read that "... perversely, it was illegal to encourage them to enrol, a bizarre state of affairs that persisted until 1984 when compulsory enrolment and voting was introduced". I'd never heard of that before. Can anyone shed any light on this? -- JackofOz 05:48, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

OK, I've found it on the AEC website, [1], see 1962. -- JackofOz 23:47, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Telling you now, the link doesn't work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.106.146.105 (talk) 08:39, 19 February 2008 (UTC)