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The Central Board Appointed to Watch Over the Interests of the Aborigines was established in 1860. This was replaced by the Victorian Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines in 1869 (via the Aboriginal Protection Act 1869), [1] [2] making Victoria the first colony to enact comprehensive regulations on the lives of Aboriginal Victorians.
The first body of the NSW Government specifically dealing with Aboriginal affairs was the Board for the Protection of Aborigines (BPA; also known as the Aboriginal Protection Board), which followed practice of "protection" taken by the Australian colonies when it was established by an Executive Council minute of 2 June 1883.
After the Board for the Protection of Aborigines was created by the New South Wales Government on 26 February 1883, it started subsidising the three stations, which however continued to be administered by the Association. In 1892, Association income dwindled and the management of the stations was handed over to the Board. [3]
It was created by the Aborigines Protection Act 1886 (WA), also known as the Half-caste act, An Act to provide for the better protection and management of the Aboriginal natives of Western Australia, and to amend the law relating to certain contracts with such Aboriginal natives (statute 25/1886); An Act to provide certain matters connected ...
Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre; Aboriginal Protection Board; Aboriginal Publications Foundation; Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship; Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League; Aborigines Progressive Association; Aborigines Welfare Directorate; Aborigines' Friends' Association; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
The Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW) was an Act of the Parliament of New South Wales that repealed the Supply of Liquors to Aborigines Prevention Act 1867, with the aim of providing for the paternalistic protection and care of Aboriginal people in New South Wales. The originating bill was introduced to Parliament in the same year it was ...
George Thornton, Chairman of the Aborigines Protection Board, 1883 [7] [8] Edmund Fosbery, Chairman of the Aborigines Protection Board, c. 1884–1904; Thomas Garvin, [9] Chairman of the Aborigines Protection Board, 1904–1910; The Aboriginal Protection Act 1909 was enacted in NSW on 1 June 1910. This reconstituted the board.
Its function is to protect Aboriginal sacred sites within the Northern Territory of Australia. [1] [2] The 1989 Act originated in a 1977 bill, signed into law as the Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act 1978 in November 1978, soon after the NT achieved self-government, and the Aboriginal Sacred Sites Authority was created.