To Remove and Protect | Find and Connect

Publication Resource Details

Author
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
AIATSIS
URL
https://aiatsis.gov.au/collection/featured-collections/remove-and-protect
Description
Some of the information on this website was originally compiled for the Bringing Them Home report. It lists the laws that were in force to 'protect' and 'control' Australian Aboriginal people from the time of European settlement to the 1970s. Also included are some annual reports from the government departments that administered the laws, and some reports from key inquiries. There is a section for each State and Territory.

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Aboriginal Affairs Act 1962, South Australia (1962 - 1972)
Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act 1972, Western Australia (1972 - )
Aboriginal Girls Protection 1844, Western Australia (1844 - 1906)
Aboriginal Orphans Act 1844, South Australia (1844 - 1911)
Aboriginal Protection in Western Australia (c. 1832 - c. 1972)
Aboriginals Ordinance 1911, Northern Territory (1912 - 1918)
Aboriginals Ordinance 1918, Northern Territory (1918 - 1953)
Aboriginals Ordinance (No. 2) 1953, Northern Territory (1953 - 1953)
Aboriginals Preservation and Protection Act 1939, Queensland (1939 - 1966)
Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897, Queensland (1897 - 1939)
Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Acts Amendment Act 1934, Queensland (1934 - 1939)
Aborigines Act 1889, Western Australia (1890 - 1898)
Aborigines Act 1897, Western Australia (1898 - 1906)
Aborigines Act 1905, Western Australia (1906 - 1964)
Aborigines Act 1910, Victoria (1910 - 1915)
Aborigines Act 1911, South Australia (1911 - 1937)
Aborigines Act 1934, South Australia (1934 - 1963)
Aborigines Act 1957, Victoria (1957 - 1959)
Aborigines Act 1969, New South Wales (1969 - 1983)
Aborigines Act 1971, Queensland (1972 - 1984)
Aborigines Act Amendment Act 1911, Western Australia (1911 - 1964)
Aborigines Act Amendment Act 1936, Western Australia (1936 - 1964)
Aborigines Act Amendment Act 1939, South Australia (1940 - 1963)
Aborigines' and Torres Strait Islanders' Affairs Act 1965, Queensland (1965 - 1972)
Aborigines Department, State of Western Australia (1 April 1898 - 31 December 1908)
Aborigines Protection Act 1886, Western Australia (1887 - 1906)
Aborigines Protection Act 1909, New South Wales (1909 - 1969)
Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915, New South Wales (1915 - 1969)
Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1918, New South Wales (1918 - 1969)
Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1936, New South Wales (1936 - 1969)
Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1940, New South Wales (1940 - 1969)
Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1943, New South Wales (1943 - 1969)
Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1963, New South Wales (1963 - 1969)
Aborigines (Training of Children) Act 1923, South Australia (1923 - 1937)
Aborigines Welfare Ordinance 1954, Commonwealth of Australia (1954 - 1965)
Adoption Act 1984, Victoria (1985 - )
Adoption Act 1988, South Australia (1989 - )
Adoption Act 1993, Australian Capital Territory (1993 - )
Adoption of Children Act 1920, Tasmania (1920 - 1968)
Adoption of Children Act 1925, South Australia (1925 - 1967)
Adoption of Children Act 1928, Victoria (1929 - 1959)
Adoption of Children Act 1935, Queensland (1936 - 1965)
Adoption of Children Act 1964, Victoria (1966 - 1987)
Adoption of Children Act 1964, Queensland (1965 - 2010)
Adoption of Children Act 1965, Australian Capital Territory (1966 - 1993)
Adoption of Children Act 1965, New South Wales (1965 - 2003)
Adoption of Children Act 1966-1967, South Australia (1967 - 1989)
Adoption of Children Act 1968, Tasmania (1968 - 1988)
Adoption of Children Act 1988, Tasmania (1988 - )
Adoption of Children Act 1994, Northern Territory (1994 - )
Adoption of Children (Amendment) Act 1987, Queensland (1987 - 1995)
Adoption of Children Ordinance 1938, Commonwealth of Australia (1938 - 1966)
An Act to Provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria, Victoria (1870 - 1890)
Beagle Bay Mission (1895 - 1976) Relevance: Aborigines Department. Report for financial year ending 30th June, 1899, p.10; Aborigines Department. Report for financial year ending 30th June, 1907, pp.7-8.
Broughton Lodge (1942 - 1958?)
Cape Barren Island Reserve (1881 - 1951)
Chief Protector of Aborigines (1898 - 1936)
Child Protection Act 1974, Tasmania (1974 - 1998)
Child Welfare Act 1923, New South Wales (1923 - 1939)
Child Welfare Act 1939, New South Wales (1939 - 1987)
Child Welfare Act 1947, Western Australia (1948 - 2006)
Child Welfare Act 1960, Tasmania (1960 - 2003)
Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1952, Western Australia (1952 - 2006)
Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1958, Western Australia (1958 - 2004)
Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1962, Western Australia (1962 - 2004)
Child Welfare Agreement Ordinance 1941, Commonwealth of Australia (1941 - 1987)
Child Welfare Amendment Act (No 2) 1976, Western Australia (1976 - 2006)
Child Welfare Ordinance 1957, Australian Capital Territory (1958 - 1988)
Child Welfare Ordinance 1958, Northern Territory (1959 - 1984)
Children and Young Persons Act 1989, Victoria (1991 - 2007)
Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987, New South Wales (1987 - 2010)
Children (Guardianship and Custody) Act 1984, Victoria (1985 - 1991)
Children's Court Act 1906, Victoria (1906 - 1915)
Children's Maintenance Act 1919, Victoria (1919 - 1929)
Children's Protection Act 1892, New South Wales (1892 - 1902)
Children's Protection Act 1896, Queensland (1896 - 1966)
Children's Protection Act 1899, South Australia (1899 - 1937)
Children's Protection Act 1902, New South Wales (1902 - 1923)
Children's Protection Act 1936, South Australia (1937 - 1972)
Children's Protection Act 1993, South Australia (1994 - 2017)
Children's Protection and Young Offenders Act 1979, South Australia (1979 - 1994)
Children's Services Act 1965, Queensland (1965 - 2000)
Children's Services Act 1986, Australian Capital Territory (1987 - 2000)
Children's Welfare Act 1928, Victoria (1929 - 1955)
Children's Welfare Act 1933, Victoria (1933 - 1955)
Children's Welfare Act 1954, Victoria (1955 - 1959)
Commissioner for Native Affairs (WA) (1936 - 1954)
Commissioner of Native Welfare (WA) (1954 - 1972)
Community Welfare Act 1972, South Australia (1972 - )
Community Welfare Act 1972, Western Australia (1972 - 2006)
Community Welfare Act 1983, Northern Territory (1984 - 2008)
Community Welfare Act 1987, New South Wales (1987 - )
Cornelie Home (1898 - 1903) Relevance: Aborigines Department. Report for financial year ending 30th June, 1900, p.4
Custody of Children and Children's Settlements Act 1894, New South Wales (1894 - 1899)
Destitute Persons Act 1881, South Australia (1881 - 1927)
Domestic Assistance Service Act 1947, Tasmania (1947 - 1998)
Ellensbrook Farm Home (1899 - 1917) Relevance: Aborigines Department. Report for financial year ending 30th June, 1900, p.4
Guardianship and Custody of Infants Act 1891, Queensland (1891 - 1966)
Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act 1865, Queensland (1865 - 1911)
Industrial Schools Act 1867, Tasmania (1867 - 1896)
Industrial Schools Act 1874, Western Australia (1874 - 1893)
Infant Convicts Act 1849, New South Wales (1849 - 1901)
Infant Convicts Adoption Act 1901, New South Wales (1901 - 1939)
Infant Life Protection Act 1890, Victoria (1891 - 1915)
Infant Life Protection Act 1905, Queensland (1905 - 1966)
Infant Life Protection Act 1907, Tasmania (1907 - 1920)
Infant Life Protection Act 1915, Victoria (1915 - 1929)
Infants' Custody and Settlement Ordinance 1956, Australian Capital Territory (1956 - 1995)
Infants' Custody and Settlements Act, New South Wales (1899 - )
Infants' Welfare Act 1935, Tasmania (1935 - 1961)
Inquiry into the treatment of Aboriginal Native Prisoners of the Crown, Crown Colony of Western Australia (1883 - 1883)
Interstate movement of Northern Territory children (1930s - 1970s)
Juvenile Courts Act 1965-1966, South Australia (1965 - 1971)
Juvenile Courts Act 1971, South Australia (1971 - 1979)
Juvenile Offenders Ordinance 1941, Commonwealth of Australia (1941 - 1958)
La Grange Bay Feeding Depot (1918 - 1949) Relevance: Aborigines Department. Report for financial year ending 30th June, 1900, p.7; Aborigines Department. Report for financial year ending 30th June, 1901, pp.45-46; Aborigines Department. Report for financial year ending 30th June, 1906, p.7; Annual Reports of the Chief Protector of Aborigines 1918, pp.6, 10; 1928, p.10; 1929, p.8; 1935, pp.12, 21; and, 1936, pp.13, 21
La Grange Bay Relief Station (1912 - 1918) Relevance: Aborigines Department. Report for financial year ending 30th June, 1912, p.3, 6; Annual Reports of the Chief Protector of Aborigines 1918, pp.6, 10; 1928, p.10; 1929, p.8; 1935, pp.12, 21; and, 1936, pp.13, 21.
Maintenance Act 1926, South Australia (1927 - 1972)
Native Administration Act Amendment Act 1941, Western Australia (1941 - 1963)
Native (Citizenship Rights) Act 1944, Western Australia (1944 - 1971)
Native (Citizenship Rights) Act Repeal Act 1971, Western Australia (1971 - )
Native Welfare Act 1954, Western Australia (1955 - 1964)
Native Welfare Act 1963, Western Australia (1963 - 1972)
Native Welfare Act Amendment Act 1960, Western Australia (1960 - 1963)
Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act 1905, New South Wales (1905 - 1923)
Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Ordinance 1949, Commonwealth of Australia (1949 - 1958)
Neglected Children's Act 1915, Victoria (1915 - 1929)
Orphanages Act 1879, Queensland (1879 - 1911)
Prevention of Cruelty to and Better Protection of Children Act 1895, Tasmania (1895 - 1936)
Reformatory (1830s - 1960s)
Royal Commission on the Aborigines, State of South Australia (1913 - 1916)
Royal Commission to Investigate, Report and Advise upon Matters in Relation to the Condition and Treatment of Aborigines 1935, State of Western Australia (1934? - 1935)
Select Committee of the Legislative Council appointed to consider and report upon the Bill to promote the efficiency of certain charitable institutions, Western Australia (7 July 1874 - 27 July 1874)
Select Committee of the Legislative Council upon the Aborigines, Colony of South Australia (1860 - 1860)
Sister Kate's Children's Cottage Home (1934 - 1980) Relevance: Annual Report of the Chief Protector of Aborigines for the Year Ended 30th June, 1936, p.16
Social Welfare Act 1960, Victoria (1960 - 1971)
Social Welfare Act 1970, Victoria (1971 - 1978)
Social Welfare Ordinance 1964, Northern Territory (1964 - 1984)
St Joseph's Native School and Orphanage, New Norcia (1861 - 1974) Relevance: Aborigines Department. Report for financial year ending 30 June, 1899, p.12
State Children Act 1895, South Australia (1895 - 1927)
State Children Act 1907, Western Australia (1907 - 1948)
State Children Act 1911, Queensland (1911 - 1966)
State Children Act Amendment Act 1919, Western Australia (1919 - 1948)
State Children Act Amendment Act 1927, Western Australia (1927 - 1948)
State Children Relief Act 1881, New South Wales (1881 - 1901)
State Children Relief Act 1901, New South Wales (1901 - 1923)
Stolen Generations
Swan Native and Half Caste Mission (c. 1880 - 1920) Relevance: Aborigines Department. Report for financial year ending 30th June, 1899, p.10
The Aborigines Protection Act 1886, Victoria (1887 - 1890)
The Cape Barren Island Reserve Act 1912, Tasmania (1912 - 1945)
The Cape Barren Island Reserve Act 1945, Tasmania (1945 - 1951)
The Children of the State Act 1918, Tasmania (1918 - 1936)
The Neglected and Criminal Children's Act 1864, Victoria (1864 - 1888)
The Neglected Children's Act 1887, Victoria (1888 - 1890)
The Neglected Children's Act 1890, Victoria (1890 - 1915)
The State Children Act 1895, Northern Territory (1895 - 1959)
Torres Strait Islander Act 1939, Queensland (1939 - 1966)
Torres Strait Islander Act 1971, Queensland (1972 - 1984)
WA School for Deaf Children (1896 - 2001) Relevance: Aborigines Department. Report for financial year ending 30th June, 1900, p.4; Aborigines Department. Report for financial year ending 30th June, 1907, p.16
Welfare Ordinance 1953, Northern Territory (1957 - 1964)
Welfare Ordinance 1961, Northern Territory (1962 - 1964)
Wotjulum (1934 - 1937) Relevance: Annual Report of the Chief Protector of Aborigines 1935 p.15
Young Offenders Act 1993, South Australia (1993 - )
Youth Court Act 1993, South Australia (1994 - )
Youthful Offenders, Destitute and Neglected Children's Act 1896, Tasmania (1896 - 1918)

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