Aboriginal Protection Board

In Australia, there was the so-called Aboriginal Protection Board ( board members), in addition to the Chief Protector of Aboriginal than individuals that exercised far-reaching rights about life, the location of the work, private life and other areas of life of Aboriginal people. The Boards have the ultimate control over the entire life of the Aborigines. There were these organizations in the Australian colonies and states. They were responsible for laws for different half -casts ( hybrids of Whites and Blacks ) and they could on the basis of this regulation Aboriginal children to their parents and take place either in homes or in whites. This injustice has gone down in the history of Australia with the concept of the Stolen Generation.

These boards also had the function of economic pressure on the Aboriginal people that they should have a job, and thus this exercise to other wage earners.

Colonies and states

Victoria

The Aboriginal Protection Board of Victoria, issued the Aboriginal Protection Act of 1869, which was renamed Central Board Appointed to Watch Over the Interests of the Aborigines. and was adopted in the then colony of Victoria as a law that will provide comprehensive certain Aboriginal life in Victoria. The Board exercised an extraordinarily comprehensive control over the Aboriginal people with respect to their place of residence, their work, marriage, their social life and other aspects of their lives.

Queensland

The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 in Queensland was adopted to opium, the Chinese operated in Queensland with the Aborigines, to reduce trading. The adopted 1897 Act was extended by the Amendment Acts in 1899, 1901, 1928, 1934, 1939 and 1946. Although the Act appears to be a caring measure, he restricted the rights in reality far more than a precautions against the abuse of intoxicants.

The Act of 1897 was the possibility of civilian persons, police and missionaries to the so-called Aboriginal Protectors to appoint. This had the right to determine where the Aborigines were allowed to move.

Furthermore, had the right to control the legislative Aboriginal people in the workplace. The effect of these measures had not only a human rights side, but also an economic one. The measures are estimated as separation from unproductive, sick and problematic Aborigines of the effective working Aborigines that were used in European industry and in other sectors of the economy. It also created a reserve employment, which could be against the Aborigines and other workers who had work contracts, are used.

New South Wales

The Aborigines Protection Board of New South Wales was established in 1883 and won by the Aborigines Protection Act (1909 ) the power for far-reaching intervention in the lives of Aboriginal people, including removal of Aboriginal children from their parents. This organization was renamed in 1940 in the Aboriginal Welfare Board and adopted the Aborigines Protection ( Amendment) Act ( 1940). The Aborigines Welfare Board was abolished only in 1969 according to the Aborigines Act of New South Wales (1969).

Western Australia

The Western Australian Aborigines Protection Board had committed between January 1, 1886 and April 1, 1898 in its statutes:

• An Act to Provide for the better protection and management of the Aboriginal natives of Western Australia, and to amend the law Relating to Certain Contracts with Aboriginal native search ( Statute 25/1886 );
• An Act to Provide Certain matters connected with the Aborigines ( Statute 24/1889 ).

South Australia, Northern Territory, Tasmania

South Australia and the Northern Territory after 1901 had no board, but an individual as part-time Chief Protector of Aborigines. In Tasmania, there was no facility in this regard, as the Tasmanians as peoples were no longer existent.