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Voting rights in Australia 1901

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  • South Australia

    Men: 1856
  • Victoria

    Men: 1856
  • New South Wales

    Men: 1858
  • Queensland

    Men: 1859
  • Northen Territory

    The Northen territory and the Australian Capital Trritory are not shown because the Northen Territory was part of the New South Wales until 1863
  • Victoria

    Legislation was passed denying chinese who were not British subjects the right to vote.
  • South Australia

    In south Autralia legislation was passed denying chinsese who were not British subjects the right to vote.
  • Queensland

    Queensland passed an Act denying the vote to 'an aboroginal native of Australia, India, China or the South Sea Islands' unless they owned property.
  • Western Asutralia

    Men : 1893
  • South Asutralia

    Women 1894
  • Western Australia

    Women: 1899
  • Tasmania

    Men: 1900
  • New South Wales

    Women: 1902
  • Queensland

    Women :1905
  • Victoria

    Women: 1908
  • South Australia

    The Australian Capital Territory was not founded until 1911.In 1911 both the Northen Territory and the Australian Capital Territory were Transferred to the Commonwealth.