NSW Governor Gipps unsuccessfully proposes legislation allowing...

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    Governor Gipps unsuccessfully proposes legislation allowing Indigenous Australians' evidence to be accepted in court.

    1860's


    England....Western Australia
    First overseas cricket tour leaves Australia for England: the team members are all Indigenous Australians.

    One hundred and fifty Indigenous people are killed resisting arrest in the Kimberleys.


    Victoria
    The Board for the Protection of Aborigines is established. The Governor can order the removal of any child to a reformatory or industrial school.

     

    The Protection Board can remove children from families be housed in dormitories. From 1886 the Victorian Board had been empowered to apprentice Indigenous Australians' children when they reach thirteen. Children require permission to visit their families on the stations.

    1870's


    NSW
    Evidence from Indigenous Australians accepted in the courts for the first time.

    1880's


    NSW
    NSW Aborigines Protection Board set up and legislated control over the lives of around 9 000 Aboriginal people.


    Queensland
    The phrase 'White Australia Policy' appears in William Lane's Brisbane magazine Boomerang.

    1890's


    NSW
    As early as 1890 the Aborigines Protection Board is developing a combined policy of 'segregation' and 'assimilation'.

     

    In a denial of human rights the Aborigines Protection Board can now forcibly take the children off the reserves and 'resocialise' them 'for their own good'.

     

    'The Board reasoned that if the Aboriginal population, described by some as a 'wild race of half-castes'was growing, then it would somehow have to be diminished.

     

    If the children were to be de-socialised as Aborigines and re-socialised as Whites, they would somehow have to be removed from their parent'.  Dr Peter Read.


    NSW
    On Warangesd a station, between 1893 and 1909, around 300 female Indigenous children are removed from their families and placed in a girls dormitory for 'resocialisation'.


    Queensland
    Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act (Qld). This Act empowers the Chief Protector to remove Indigenous Australians onto and between reserves and hold Indigenous children in dormitories.

     

    From 1939 until 1971 this power is held by the Director of Native Welfare. The Director is empowered to be the legal guardian of all 'aboriginal' children (as defined), whether or not their parents are living, until 1965.


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    Last edited by RedCedar: 23/02/19
 
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