Should the people of Norfolk Island have the right to freely determine their political status, their economic, social and cultural development and be consulted at referendum or plebiscite on the future model of governance for Norfolk Island before such changes are acted on by the Australian Parliament?
Results
Choice
Votes
%
Yes
624
70.11%
No
266
29.89%
Valid votes
890
97.59%
Invalid or blank votes
22
2.41%
Total votes
912
100.00%
A referendum was held in Norfolk Island on 8 May 2015, asking residents if they should have a say in determining the island's political status. The referendum was successful, although the result was non-binding.[1]
The vote was initiated by the Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly after it was announced on 19 March 2015 that self-governance for the island would be revoked by the Commonwealth and replaced by a local council, with the state of New South Wales providing services to the island.[2]
Both the Norfolk Island Labor Party and Norfolk Liberals supported a "no" vote.[3]
A referendum was held in NorfolkIsland on 8 May 2015, asking residents if they should have a say in determining the island's political status. The referendum...
A statusreferendum was held in NorfolkIsland on 2 January 1991 on the constitutional status of the Australian overseas territory of NorfolkIsland. Voters...
by the Administrator of NorfolkIsland. Controversy exists as to the exact status of NorfolkIsland. Despite the island'sstatus as a self-governing territory...
NorfolkIsland (/ˈnɔːrfək/, locally /ˈnɔːrfoʊk/; Norfuk: Norf'k Ailen) is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand...
At the 2015statusreferendum, the party supported the "no" vote, which was ultimately unsuccessful. Norfolk Labor faded away sometime after 2015, having...
The NorfolkIsland Liberal Party (Pitcairn-Norfolk: Norfuk Ailen Librel Paati), more commonly referred to simply as the Norfolk Liberals (Pitcairn-Norfolk:...
results of the referendum, each ordered into national and regional sections. Under the provisions of the European Union Referendum Act 2015, there were a...
NorfolkIsland Proposed: NorfolkIsland as an autonomous region of Australia or free association with New Zealand Advocacy groups: NorfolkIsland Party...
federated (with the exception of the Coral Sea Islands, which was a part of Queensland). NorfolkIsland was self-governing from 1979 to 2016. The external...
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MSA that year, while South Norfolk lost its metropolitan status. Also in 1963, Norfolk County and the City of South Norfolk merged to create the city of...
autonomous within Antigua and Barbuda. NorfolkIsland self-government was revoked by the Australian Federal Government in 2015. Its laws were subsumed into the...
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territories of Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and NorfolkIsland. Taiwan includes Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor islands. Includes Somaliland...
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and the Norfolk Southern Railway via the Travis Branch, with a 38-acre (15 ha) intermodal on-dock rail facility on the West Shore of Staten Island, which...
then government agreed to hold a referendum, but in 2015 postponed it indefinitely to give priority to other referendums. Five Star Movement Northern League...
Mallet & Bell Publications, Norfolk, 1994, ISBN 0-620-15055-6 Evans, Dorothy, Schooling in the South Atlantic Islands 1661–1992, Anthony Nelson, 1994...
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(12 May 2015). "NorfolkIsland loses its parliament as Canberra takes control". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 October 2015. Retrieved...
Australian citizens over the age of 18 years (with the exception of NorfolkIsland, where enrolment is voluntary). Residents in Australia who had been...
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