| Description |
131 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / John Chesterman and David Philips -- 1. White women as ̀nation builders' : gender, colonialism and the federal vote / Patricia Grimshaw -- 2. ̀An unheard of piece of savagery' : Indigenous Australians and the federal vote / John Chesterman -- 3. What did the vote mean to Yorta Yorta peoples? / Wayne Atkinson -- 4. Towards ̀a white man's union' : the denial of the indigenous franchise in South Africa, 1902-1910 / David Philips -- 5. ̀Numerous enough to swamp the votes of honest whites' : the indigenous franchise in Canada / Shurlee Swain -- 6. Disorder, invasion and ̀irrationality' in the Federal Franchise of 1902 / Joy Damousi -- 7. ̀No aboriginal native of ... the islands of the Pacific' : South Sea Islanders and the distant vote of the Commonwealth / Tracey Banivanua Mar -- 8. ̀Odious and the outmoded'? : Race and Section 25 of the Constitution / Brian Costar -- 9. Can the right to vote be taken away? The Constitution, citizenship and voting rights in 1902 and 2002 / Kim Rubenstein -- 10. White women and the federal vote, 1902-1949 : challenging the idea of women's conservatism / Jennifer Curtin |
| Summary |
In 1902 the fledgling Commonwealth Parliament enacted its first national franchise law, resulting in the enfranchisement of white women. However, at the same time, it chose to follow a decidedly undemocratic path in denying the most fundamental of political rights to Indigenous Australians. How did this come about? What does this denial of the federal vote to Indigenous Australians tell us about the nature of democracy in Australia in 1902? And why did it take sixty years for this ̀democratic contradiction' to be put right? In Selective Democracy notable academics and commentators analyse these and other historical, political and legal questions that continue to be asked about the right to vote in Australia |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Subject |
Australia. Constitution Act.
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Voting -- Australia -- History.
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Minorities -- Suffrage -- Australia -- History.
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Political rights -- Australia -- History.
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| Author |
Philips, David, 1946-
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Chesterman, John, 1967-
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| ISBN |
0958093814 : |
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