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<blockquote data-quote="Ticklishchap" data-source="post: 1025417" data-attributes="member: 84583"><p>In Australia at the beginning of the 70s, the country was on the cusp of change. The infamous White Australia policy was coming to an end; I was friends with a Chinese boy at school in Melbourne, which illustrates that change. We left in 1972.</p><p>When my parents arrived in the mid-60s, they had voting rights automatically because they were British! Within two years, they had to vote (voting compulsory as I think in NZ) in a referendum on giving citizenship and the vote to Aboriginal Australians. This was weird: they had only just arrived in the country and they were voting on the rights of people who had been there for many thousands of years. The vote was successful, showing that most Australians are more fair-minded than they are sometimes given credit for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ticklishchap, post: 1025417, member: 84583"] In Australia at the beginning of the 70s, the country was on the cusp of change. The infamous White Australia policy was coming to an end; I was friends with a Chinese boy at school in Melbourne, which illustrates that change. We left in 1972. When my parents arrived in the mid-60s, they had voting rights automatically because they were British! Within two years, they had to vote (voting compulsory as I think in NZ) in a referendum on giving citizenship and the vote to Aboriginal Australians. This was weird: they had only just arrived in the country and they were voting on the rights of people who had been there for many thousands of years. The vote was successful, showing that most Australians are more fair-minded than they are sometimes given credit for. [/QUOTE]
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