Вопрос 1

Do you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled ‘An Act to alter the Constitution so that the number of Members of the House of Representatives may be increased without necessarily increasing the number of Senators’?

Section 24 of the Constitution requires that the number of Members of the House of Representatives must be approximately double the number of Senators. Constitution Alteration (Parliament) 1967 sought to alter the Constitution so as to remove this ‘nexus’.

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Obtained majority in one State and an overall minority of 1 113 271 votes.
Not carried

Вопрос 2

Do you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled ‘An Act to alter the Constitution so as to omit certain words relating to the people of the Aboriginal race in any state so that Aboriginals are to be counted in reckoning the population’?

Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) 1967 sought to give the Commonwealth Parliament power to make laws with respect to Aboriginal people wherever they lived in Австралия. It also sought to make it possible to include Aboriginal people in national censuses. The amendment deleted part of section 51 (xxvi) and repealed section 127.

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Obtained majority in all six States and an overall majority of 4 656 106 votes.
Carried