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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 Board may thereupon remove such child to such control and care as it thinks best.” Section 13A, Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915 [8] This amended section led numerous removals and directly resulted in the Stolen Generations. The Aborigines Protection Act 1909 was further amended in 1918, 1936, 1940, 1943 and 1964. [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 ...
Western Australia state has scrapped new Aboriginal heritage protection laws after just five weeks because of opposition from landowners. The decision, denounced by Indigenous groups, comes in the ...
The Aboriginal Protection Act 1869 was an Act of the colony of Victoria, Australia that established the Victorian Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines, to replace the Central Board Appointed to Watch Over the Interests of the Aborigines.
The Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1940 created the Aborigines Welfare Board in 1940, [14] following two government reviews immediately prior. [15] ACT/JBT regulation was separated from NSW between the enacting of the Aborigines Welfare Ordinance 1954 [ 16 ] and the Aborigines Welfare Repeal Ordinance 1965; [ 17 ] however the regulating ...
MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Western Australia will overturn its 2021 Aboriginal cultural heritage protection laws, introduced after the destruction of the ancient Juukan Gorge rock shelters, in response ...
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.