The Orphan School Estates Act 1826, also known as An Act for Vesting the Orphan School Estates in the Trustees of the Clergy and School Lands in the Colony of New South Wales and for duly governing the Children at School and in Apprenticeship (7 George 4, Act No 4, 1826), established rules for the…
The Children’s Protection Act 1902 (47/1902) was also known as ‘An Act to consolidate the enactments providing for the protection of children in certain cases’ and repealed the Children’s Protection Act 1892. It amended and consolidated the law regarding ‘baby-farming’, or caring for multiple infants for a fee. This practice was of great social and…
The Community Welfare Act 1987 (52/1987) was a significant revision of existing child welfare legislation and the Community Welfare Act 1982. It followed a number of Reports and Inquiries around Australia and the world. It is the Act that controls the functions of the Minister for community welfare and social development and some of the…
Requiring the consent of a child to the making of a community service order or restricting orders to children under fourteen.
Enables the Director-General to place children in foster care and requires children to be informed of reasons for removal and likely consequences.
The Aborigines Act 1969 (37/1969) was ‘An Act to make provisions with respect to matters concerning Aborigines; to repeal the Aborigines Protection Act, 1909, and certain other Acts; to amend the Attachment of Wages Limitation Act, 1957.’ It was a landmark Act that abolished the Aborigines Welfare Board and moved all Aboriginal children into the…
The Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987 (58/1987) was introduced to cover children in need of care and protection, including children in institutions, foster care and state wards. It was introduced alongside the Community Welfare Act 1987 and the Children’s Court Act 1987. This Act was amended many times. In 1995 the Children (Care and…
The Adoption of Children Act 1965 (23/1965) was ‘An Act to make provisions with respect to and consequential upon the adoption of children; to amend the Child Welfare Act, 1939, the Registration of Births Deaths and Marriages Act 1899, and certain other Acts’. This Act was passed in response to the Commonwealth government’s push for…
The Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1943 (13/1943) created ‘exemption certificates’ which enabled an Aboriginal person to argue they should no longer be deemed to be ‘an aborigine or a person apparently having an admixture of aboriginal blood’, and could thus escape the provisions of the Aborigines Protection Act and enjoy similar freedoms to white people….
The Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1963 was an ‘An Act to remove certain restrictions imposed by the Aborigines Protection Act, 1909-1943, upon aborigines; for this and other purposes to amend the said Act’. It repealed some of the more restrictive elements of the Aborigines Protection Act. Magistrates could no longer send ‘mixed blood’ Aboriginal people…
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