High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Historically the voting rights of Australian Aboriginals, or Indigenous Australians, had been restricted in Australian parliaments and local government bodies. Under Section 41 of the Australian Constitution Aboriginals always had the legal right to vote in Australian Commonwealth elections if their State granted them that right.From the time of Federation this meant that all Aboriginals outside Queensland and Western Australia technically had a full legal right to vote. Point McLeay, a mission station near the mouth of the Murray River, got a polling station in the 1890s and Aboriginal men and women voted there in South Australian elections and voted for the first Commonwealth Parliament in 1901.