For the purposes of the last section, if by the law of any State all persons of any race are disqualified from voting at elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of the State, then, in reckoning the number of the people of the State or of the Commonwealth, persons of that race resident in that State shall not be counted.

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25 Provisions as to races disqualified from voting
For the purposes of the last section, if by the law of any State all persons of any race are disqualified from voting at elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of the State, then, in reckoning the number of the people of the State or of the Commonwealth, persons of that race resident in that State shall not be counted.

25.1 This section provides that if a State excludes particular racial groups from the electoral roll, those people are not to be counted in the distribution of Federal electorates. The section is grossly undemocratic and odious to modern values. Now that a proposal for a different referendum to remove the section appears to have been shelved, the deletion of section 25 can be included in the Advancing Democracy model, even though the section is not a cause of instability.