{"id":143,"date":"1944-09-01T00:55:17","date_gmt":"1944-08-31T20:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukrupnenie.com\/countries\/a\/australia\/1944-referendum-australia.html"},"modified":"2007-09-01T00:58:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T20:58:54","slug":"1944-referendum-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/countries\/a\/australia\/1944-referendum-australia.html","title":{"rendered":"Australia. Referendum, 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"

(19) Post-War Reconstruction and Democratic Rights<\/p>\n

Question<\/h3>\n

\nDo you approve of the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled ‘Constitution Alteration (Post-War Reconstruction and Democratic Rights) 1944’?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Constitution Alteration (Post-War Reconstruction and Democratic Rights) 1944, the \u2018Fourteen Powers\u2019 or \u2018Fourteen Points\u2019 Referendum, sought to give the Commonwealth Parliament power, for a period of five years, to legislate with respect to the fourteen specified matters, which included the rehabilitation of ex-servicemen, national health, family allowances and \u2018the people of Aboriginal race\u2019 as well as, in some form, many of the matters on which powers to legislate had been sought in 1911 (that is, corporations, trusts, combines and monopolies). There were also to be inserted constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and religion and safeguards against the abuse of delegated legislative power. All of these proposed alterations were put to voters in the form of one question.<\/p>\n

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Australia. Referendum, 1941<\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
State<\/th>\n\t\tNumber on rolls<\/th>\n\t\tBallot papers issued<\/th>\n\t\tFor (v)<\/th>\n\t\tFor (%)<\/th>\n\t\tAgainst (v)<\/th>\n\t\tAgainst (%)<\/th>\n\t\tInformal<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<\/thead>\n\t
New South Wales<\/td>\n\t\t1 758 166<\/td>\n\t\t1 694 119<\/td>\n\t\t759 211<\/td>\n\t\t45.44<\/td>\n\t\t911 680<\/td>\n\t\t54.56<\/td>\n\t\t23 228<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Victoria<\/td>\n\t\t1 266 662<\/td>\n\t\t1 227 571<\/td>\n\t\t597 848<\/td>\n\t\t49.31<\/td>\n\t\t614 487<\/td>\n\t\t50.69<\/td>\n\t\t15 236<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Queensland<\/td>\n\t\t633 907<\/td>\n\t\t599 568<\/td>\n\t\t216 262<\/td>\n\t\t36.52<\/td>\n\t\t375 862<\/td>\n\t\t63.48<\/td>\n\t\t7 444<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
South Australia<\/td>\n\t\t403 133<\/td>\n\t\t392 443<\/td>\n\t\t196 294<\/td>\n\t\t50.64<\/td>\n\t\t191 317<\/td>\n\t\t49.36<\/td>\n\t\t4 832<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Western Australia<\/td>\n\t\t278 722<\/td>\n\t\t272 339<\/td>\n\t\t140 399<\/td>\n\t\t52.25<\/td>\n\t\t128 303<\/td>\n\t\t47.75<\/td>\n\t\t3 637<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Tasmania<\/td>\n\t\t143 359<\/td>\n\t\t139 411<\/td>\n\t\t53 386<\/td>\n\t\t38.92<\/td>\n\t\t83 769<\/td>\n\t\t61.08<\/td>\n\t\t2 256<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Total for Commonwealth<\/td>\n\t\t4 483 949<\/td>\n\t\t4 325 451*<\/td>\n\t\t1 963 400<\/td>\n\t\t45.99<\/td>\n\t\t2 305 418<\/td>\n\t\t54.01<\/td>\n\t\t56 633<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/table>

\n<\/p>\n

* Including 417 082 votes by members of the Forces, of which 218 452 were for, 195 148 against and 3482 informal.<\/p>\n

Obtained majority in two States and an overall minority of 342 018 votes.
\nNot carried<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(19) Post-War Reconstruction and Democratic Rights Question Do you approve of the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled ‘Constitution Alteration (Post-War Reconstruction and Democratic Rights) 1944’? Constitution Alteration (Post-War Reconstruction and Democratic Rights) 1944, the \u2018Fourteen Powers\u2019 or \u2018Fourteen Points\u2019 Referendum, sought to give the Commonwealth Parliament power, for a period of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}