Royal Commission to Investigate, Report and Advise upon Matters in Relation to the Condition and Treatment of Aborigines 1935 (1934 - 1935)

From

1934?

To

1935

Alternative Names

• Moseley Royal Commission

Location

Western Australia

The Royal Commission to Investigate, Report and Advise upon Matters in Relation to the Condition and Treatment of Aborigines undertaken by Magistrate H.D. Moseley: 'considered, among other matters, the administration of Indigenous affairs, native settlements, town camps, employment, disease and the trial procedures for Indigenous people…Like Roth, [Moseley] believed that a protection policy was in the best interests of Indigenous people and that [their] treatment by pastoralists and missionaries was satisfactory…the living conditions at the government Moore River native settlement and in the many camps across the state were deplorable…Because he favoured a protection policy rather than reform, Moseley's recommendations, when written into the Native Administration Act 1936 placed even greater authority in the hands of the Chief Protector, now referred to as Commissioner.' (Green, p.781).