They could not vote. Their movements were restricted. They were outcastes in White Australia. Today, the Blacks of Australia are terribly oppressed and remain in a desperate struggle for survival. Recent demographic surveys, for example, show that the Black infant mortality rate is the highest in Australia.
Blacks have the shoddiest housing and the poorest schools.
Their life expectancy is twenty years less than Whites. Their unemployment rate is six times higher than the national average. Blacks did not obtain the right to vote in federal elections until 1961. They did not gain the legal right to consume alcoholic beverages until 1964. They were not officially counted as Austrlian citizens until after a constitutional amendment in 1967.