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The Victorian Half-Caste Act 1886 (in full, an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to Provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria") was an extension and expansion of the Aboriginal Protection Act 1869, which gave extensive powers over the lives of Aboriginal people in the colony of Victoria to the Board for the Protection of Aborigines, including regulation ...
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.
In 1886, Victoria's parliament passed what became known as the Half-Caste Act, giving the board power to expel Aboriginal Victorians of mixed heritage ("half-castes") aged from eight to 34 from reserves. According to Broome: "In one move, the Board's costs would be reduced and the Aboriginal race would vanish as the 'full bloods' aged and died ...
Aboriginal Lands Act 1970: Victoria: Land rights Aboriginal Affairs (Arrangements with the States) Act 1973: Commonwealth of Australia: Inter-governmental administration National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW) New South Wales: Heritage Aboriginal Relics Act 1975 (No. 81 of 1975) Tasmania: Heritage protection Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 ...
Victoria passed the Aboriginal Protection Act 1869; Queensland passed the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897, for the "better protection and care of the aboriginal and half-caste inhabitants of the colony"; it established the positions of regional Protectors and later Chief Protector. [6]
This board was replaced by a firmly-named Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines in 1869 (via the Aboriginal Protection Act 1869). [36] [37] This act made Victoria the first colony to enact comprehensive regulations on the lives of Aborigines. The Secretary now not only did the bulk of administrative work of the board, but was credited ...
The Royal Commission on the Aborigines in 1877, headed by William Foster Stawell and looking at the six reserves in Victoria (the others being Lake Condah, Lake Tyers, Framlingham, Ramahyuck, and Ebenezer), [14] [15] followed by a parliamentary inquiry in 1881 on the Aboriginal "problem", led to the Aborigines Protection Act 1886, which ...
The site, on 2,000 acres (810 ha) north of Darlot Creek, was formally reserved in 1869, [8] the same year that the Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines was created by the Aboriginal Protection Act 1869. The location of the buildings was about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Lake Condah, [10] off the Condah Estate Road. [3] [11] [Note 1]