| 1843 | Men with 200 pound free-hold or 20 pound annual value householders were enfranchised |
| 1850 | Men with 200 pound free-hold, 10 pound annual value householders, 3 year lease of 10 pound annual value, or depasturising licence allowed to vote |
| 1856 | Men over 21 years allowed to vote in SA |
| 1857 | Men over 21 years allowed to vote in VIC |
| 1872 | Men over 21 years allowed to vote in QLD |
| 1893 | Men over 21 years allowed to vote in WA |
| 1894 | Women over 21 years allowed to vote in SA |
| 1896 | Men over 21 years allowed to vote in TAS |
| 1899 | Women over 21 years allowed to vote in WA |
| FEDERATION | |
| 1901 | State franchises applied at the first federal election (NSW,VIC,QLD,TAS men over 21 years; SA and WA men and women pver 21 years) |
| 1902 | Most men and women over 21 years allowed
to vote at federal elections except 'aboriginal natives of Australia, Asia,
Africa or the Islands of the Pacific' (except New Zealand) were excluded
from enrolment and voting unless they already had the franchise at State
level.
Women over 21 years allowed to vote in NSW |
| 1903 | Women over 21 years allowed to vote in TAS |
| 1905 | Women over 21 years allowed to vote in QLD |
| 1908 | Women over 21 years allowed to vote in VIC |
| 1920 | Nationality Act gave British subjects 'all political and other rights' but South Sea Islanders still ineligible to vote despite being British subjects |
| 1925 | 'Natives of British India' living in Australia allowed to vote |
| 1949 | Aboriginal people were given the right to enrol and vote at federal elections provided they were entitled to enrol for State elections or had served in the defence forces |
| 1962 | All Aboriginal people became entitled to enrol and vote at federal elections and referendums |
| 1973 | The qualifying age for enrolment, voting and candidature for all federal elections lowered from 21 to 18 |
| 1984 | Enrolment and voting for Aboriginal
people became compulsory
Australian citizenship became qualification for franchise British subjects on the roll immediately before 26 January 1984 retained enrolment rights |