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This category includes present missions, as well as communities which have been missions at some point in their history, usually the beginning. Pages in category "Australian Aboriginal missions" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total.
The origin of laws seeking to protect Aboriginal people in the Australian colonies and to provide religious instruction and missionaries can be found in the Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes, (British settlements.) which was presented to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by the Parliamentary Select ...
The United Aborigines Mission (UAM) (also known as UAM Ministries, United Aborigines' Mission (Australia), and United Aborigines' Mission of Australia [1]) was one of the largest missions in Australia, having dozens of missionaries and stations, and covering Western Australia, New South Wales and South Australia in the 1900s. It was first ...
Australian Indigenous Ministries, formerly Aborigines Inland Mission of Australia (both AIM), is an interdenominational Christian organisation that provides ministries to Aboriginal Australians. Aborigines Inland Mission of Australia was established in 1905, and ran many Aboriginal missions across Australia, including the Retta Dixon Home in ...
Aboriginal reserves, like the missions and other institutions, had the effect of isolating, confining and controlling Aboriginal people. [9] People who were relocated to these reserves lost the human rights of freedom of movement and work, control over their personal property and the custody of their children. [10]
From 1883 onwards, the Aboriginal people who were living on unmanaged reserves received rations and blankets from the Aborigines Protection Board (APB), but remained responsible for their own housing. Such reserves included Forster and Burnt Bridge. [13] Aboriginal missions: Aboriginal missions were created by churches or religious individuals ...
The murder of an Aboriginal girl by Overseer Brown and the 1927–28 court case is important evidence of early application of colonial law in relation to Aboriginal people. The Wellington mission was the first inland mission in Australia and the first of a series of missions around Wellington.
It was composed of 36 representatives elected by Aboriginal people in 36 regions of Australia. [242] In 1983, the elections reached a turnout of approximately 78 percent. [243] Following a review in 1976, the NACC was abolished by the new Fraser government in 1977. [243] To replace it, the National Aboriginal Conference (NAC) was founded.