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Section 25 of the Constitution of Australia

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94:, but this was never expanded on as it would have had no deterrent effect given Western Australia was to receive the minimum five representatives upon federation regardless. Later in the drafting process, section 30 was introduced, allowing the Commonwealth to legislate its own voting franchise, thus enabling the Commonwealth government to theoretically exclude certain races from voting in federal elections with no corresponding effect on the number of representatives in each state. Section 25 was nevertheless retained despite this change. 98:
Aboriginal people from being counted in population data, meant that the exclusion of Aboriginal people from state franchise had no effect on a state's population in applying section 24 to determine the make-up of the House of Representatives, as Aboriginal people were excluded from the population for the purposes of determining a state's proportion of seats anyway. Likewise, it had little effect on exclusion of other races, such as
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More recently, it has been suggested section 25 be removed on the basis that it contemplates the possibility that a state may disenfranchise a race of people. The Expert Panel on Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Constitution, in a report released in January 2012, among
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by ensuring electorates at state and federal level would be based on population and not geographic size or other methods. Again, this referendum was defeated, receiving only 47% of the national yes vote, and only attaining a majority in New South Wales. Both these referendums failed for reasons more
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judgements relating to the application of section 25. This is largely because its existence has always been of little to no effect to date, and because any dispute over its application is unlikely to have been in relation to a population large enough to have any effect on the representation numbers
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Despite section 25's purported intention to deter future disenfranchisement on the basis of race, inline with the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, in practice it has been of little effect to date. The existence of section 127 in the Constitution, which excluded
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suggests, some of the criticism surrounding section 25 is possibly misguided, with some contributors on the panel seeming to be of the belief that section 25 allows a state to prohibit people of a race from voting in the future, given the wording of the section. She argues that section 25 neither
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At the time what became section 25 was introduced to the draft there was not intended to be a separate federal franchise. Rather, those permitted to vote in lower house elections at state level would form the make-up of the Commonwealth franchise. One argument is that the drafters included it to
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is not constitutionally enshrined, such protection is not permanently guaranteed. Regardless, the High Court may read down the Act from applying in this way so as not to allow the Commonwealth to infringe on a state's ability to legislate on its own constitutional matters as in
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in 2015, the Expert Panel has described their contribution in 2012 as only the 'first word, not the last word'. The Joint Select Committees in 2015 and 2018 discussed the removal of section 25 as a roundtable discussion question and recommended it to be repealed.
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allows nor disallows such action, but merely disapproves or deters it. However, she advises removing it as part of a wider effort to remove race from the Constitution appropriate given it has no practical effect at present, due to the existence of the
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The 1975 Australian Constitutional Convention referred to the section as outmoded and expended and recommended it be repealed. Likewise, the Constitutional Commission in 1988 suggested it be repealed on the basis that it was outmoded and archaic.
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ensure that a state could not on the one hand exclude people of a race from voting at the Commonwealth level, while also benefiting from their inclusion in the population when determining the number of representatives that state would elect to the
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exclusion of indigenous populations of other nations, as they were either insignificant in number in relation to the broader population or could be excluded by other means, such as on the basis of nationality under the
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in determining representation in federal parliament, all states already included Aboriginal people in their respective franchises, with the last state to do so being Queensland two years earlier.
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In their submission to the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians in 2010, the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies recommended section 25 to be repealed.
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headed "Provision as to races disqualified from voting" and providing that "For the purposes of the last section, if by the law of any State all persons of any race are disqualified from
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Recommendations for the repeal of section 25 date back as far as the 1959 Parliamentary Joint Committee on Constitutional Review.
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removed the nexus between the number of representatives in the House of Representatives and the number of senators in the Senate
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now means that a state could not prevent people of a race from being able to vote, and that due to this section 25 is
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referred to it in passing as support for the proposition that racial qualifications have been eliminated from voting.
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Harvey, Matt; Longo, Michael; Ligertwood, Julian; Babovic, David, eds. (2010). "Constitutional Law in Context".
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Section 25 has often been described as a relic from Australia's constitutional history which should be removed.
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in Parliament. It has however been referred to in numerous cases, in relation to matters such as
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and similar barriers, such as language testing, which would not trigger section 25. By the time
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constitutional amendment enshrining the concept of "one vote, one value" in the Constitution
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on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in 2008 - Chapter 5.9 of the submission stated that:
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The repeal of section 25 has been put to referendum twice. In 1967, alongside the
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and intended to deter states from excluding certain races from voting in the
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complex than any controversy surrounding the removal of section 25.
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could easily be defeated by new legislation and the 'race power'.
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Section 25 no longer has any significant legal effect, as the
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Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia: The Legislature
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may be suspended under section 8(1), as it was through the
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Later, in 1974, section 25 was to be repealed as part of a
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other things, recommended that section 25 be removed. As
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case highlighted the fact that the effectiveness of the
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There have been arguments that the application of the
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Provision disqualifying certain "races" from voting
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Index

Constitution of Australia
voting
elections
Parliament of the State
Commonwealth
1891 constitutional convention
Andrew Inglis Clark
Tasmanian Attorney-General
section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment
US Constitution
US Civil War
Reconstruction era
United States of America
House of Representatives
Western Australia
Queensland's
Immigration Restriction Act 1901
section 127 was repealed
Aboriginal population to be counted
High Court
universal franchise
voting equality
people
Commonwealth
High Court
Justice Kirby
referendum in relation to Aboriginals
removed the nexus between the number of representatives in the House of Representatives and the number of senators in the Senate
constitutional amendment enshrining the concept of "one vote, one value" in the Constitution
roundtable discussion

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