Aboriginal people are given the right to enroll and vote in Commonwealth elections if they have enrolled for State elections or have served in the Armed Forces. At that time, Indigenous Australians in Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory were still not allowed to vote in state elections, meaning they did not have the right to vote in federal elections.
It was in March 1962, that the right to vote was moved on to all Aboriginal people by the Menzies Liberal and Country Party government.