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The Western Australian State Election 1986 and the Aboriginal Vote in the Kimberley

Loveday, Peter; Jaensch, Dean; Sanders, Will

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A survey provided most of the data used in this report. The survey questionnaire was similar to that used in the surveys of Aboriginal voters in the Northern Territory election of 1983 and in the Commonwealth election in the Territory in 1984. The basic questions concerned enrolment, knowledge of parties and candidates, past voting behaviour and present voting intention, electoral education, sources of information about the election and problems which the government should do something about. ...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorLoveday, Peter
dc.contributor.authorJaensch, Dean
dc.contributor.authorSanders, Will
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-12T01:16:24Z
dc.date.available2011-12-12T01:16:24Z
dc.identifier.issn0 86784 823 5
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/8769
dc.description.abstractA survey provided most of the data used in this report. The survey questionnaire was similar to that used in the surveys of Aboriginal voters in the Northern Territory election of 1983 and in the Commonwealth election in the Territory in 1984. The basic questions concerned enrolment, knowledge of parties and candidates, past voting behaviour and present voting intention, electoral education, sources of information about the election and problems which the government should do something about. There has been very little systematic study of Aboriginal participation and interest in electoral processes in remote areas of Western Australia apart from the work of Bulger and Romley. In Western Australia, as in the Northern Territory, we have found that Aboriginal interest in, and knowledge and understanding of the electoral process is substantial.
dc.format.extent72 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.publisherNorth Australia Research Unit (NARU), The Australian National University
dc.subjectWestern Australia
dc.subjectParliament
dc.subjectElections 1986
dc.subjectAborigines
dc.subjectAustralian Aborigines
dc.subjectSuffrage
dc.subjectVoting Research -- Western Australia
dc.titleThe Western Australian State Election 1986 and the Aboriginal Vote in the Kimberley
dc.typeBook
dc.date.issued1986
local.type.statusPublished Version
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
CollectionsANU North Australia Research Unit (NARU)

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