Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

Yes. Section 30 of the Constitution deals with qualification of electors:

Until the Parliament otherwise provides, the qualification of electors of members of the House of Representatives shall be in each State that which is prescribed by the law of the State as the qualification of electors of the more numerous House of Parliament of the State; but in the choosing of members each elector shall vote only once.

The important thing there is ‘until the parliament otherwise provides’, and I think it was in about 1902 that we had the first Commonwealth electoral act where the parliament ‘otherwise provided’.