Race and Voting

US Focus

Explained | Whose vote counts | Netflix (16 min)

Australia Focus

Voice referendum normalised racism towards Indigenous Australians, report finds (article)

The Guardian, 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/06/voice-referendum-normalised-racism-towards-indigenous-australians-report-finds 

Why the Voice referendum failed - and what the government hasn’t learnt from it (article)

Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis, The Conversation, 2026

https://theconversation.com/why-the-voice-referendum-failed-and-what-the-government-hasnt-learned-from-it-255969 

Aotearoa/NZ Focus

Prisoner Voting Rights (video)

Alice Snedden’s Bad News, The Spinoff, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEnoTQvUark&list=PL-xxT3W4uRNYxz3NnaVQeFyZ0b2DF2cwV&index=17 

How local election rules discriminate against Māori (article)

Mike Smith, E-tangata 2025

https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/how-local-election-rules-discriminate-against-maori/ 

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