Only 58% of Indigenous Australians are registered to vote. We should be asking why

Resource Information

The work Only 58% of Indigenous Australians are registered to vote. We should be asking why represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Only 58% of Indigenous Australians are registered to vote. We should be asking why

Statement of responsibility

Paul Daley

Title variation

Only fifty eight per cent of Indigenous Australians are registered to vote. We should be asking why

Creator

• Daley, Paul

Subject

• Voting -- Australia -- Posters
• Elections -- Australia -- 2016
• Politics and Government - Elections
• Art - Poster
• Voting -- Australia -- History
• Cultural heritage - Protection - Museums and keeping places - Collections and acquisitions
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. -- Exhibitions
• Mental health - Suicide
• Art - Exhibitions
• Politics and Government - Elections - Voting rights
• Government policy - Mainstreaming - Closing the Gap

Genre

• Posters
• Exhibitions

Language

eng

Summary

Opines that Australians should be asking why, while Indigenous Australians are eligible to vote in the 2016 Federal election, few will do so; includes discussion on failure of Closing the Gap initiatives; suicides and self-harm in Kimberley region; frontier violence; includes comment by Murray Chapman, clinical director of Kimberley Mental Health and Drug Service, on intergenerational trauma; points to the disengagement of the major Australian political parties in the lead up to the 2016 Federal election on Indigenous matters including high rate of suicide and self-harm in the Kimberley area; poor response by political parties to the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples' 'Redfern Statement' (June 9, 2016); discusses forthcoming Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) research into the history of Indigenous enfranchisement for an online exhibition curated by Blake Singley and Charlotte Craw; describes promotional materials on voting including posters dated from the early 1960s to the late 1970s held in the AIATSIS collection; includes comments from Charlotte Craw and Blake Singley on the materials; includes history of Indigenous enfranchisement from 1850

Is part of

• Guardian (Online)

Cataloging source

AIAS

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction