Lot 273
This Bill provided for "the dissolution of the Board of Protection of Aborigines and the constitution of the Aborigines Protection Board."
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Exhibited:
- 516 Literature:
- Collectibles Medium:
- Ephemera, Cards & Documents Circa:
- Ephemera, General Notes:
- As Australia builds up to a referendum on an Aboriginal Voice to Parliament it is worth reflecting on how our indigenous population has been governed through the years. Beginning in the Colonial era each state had a body or board which was responsible for overseeing its Aboriginal population which it identified somewhat callously in annual reports to governments as full-bloods and half-castes. For example, in the State of New South Wales, an annual census of Aborigines conducted by the police in 1905 for the Aboriginal Protection Board identified a total of 2.656 full-bloods (1,068 men, 771 women and 817 children) and 4,477 half-castes (1,127 men, 937 women and 2,413 children) which was an increase of 223 of the previous year. Certainly, there was a clear intermingling with the white colonisers as the number of Aborigines identified as full-bloods had fallen from 6,450 in 1882 whereas the number identified as half-castes had almost doubled from 2,379 in the same period. All aspects of their existence were dictated by government with a breakdown of amounts expended on their welfare by locality. Much like the bridging the gap studies that circulate today the annual reports identified areas of concern but also of perceived progress. For example the Report tabled in 1906 for the year 1905 identified that the number of children who received instruction throughout the States (sic) was 683 - 665 at Public Schools and 18 at private schools, - being a decrease of 25 as compared with 1904 but that despite their natural shyness they acquitted themselves quite creditably. Certainly, the reports were written in a patronising fashion, but they do capture a snapshot of the circumstances foisted on the native population throughout Australias short history. In our Sale we have the 1864 Report of the Central Board appointed to watch over the interests of the Aborigines in the Colony of Victoria as well as reports tabled with the post - Federation New South Wales Legislative Assembly in the years 1906, 1934 and a 1940 amendment to the Aborigines Protection Bill. Tellingly, the 1940 amendment outlines the circumstances under which the Child Welfare Act of 1939 should be applied to those Aboriginal children deemed neglected or uncontrollable used to justify their State - sanctioned forced removals from families identified these days as the Stolen Generation.
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