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Aborigines Protection Act (VIC)
An Aborigines Protection Board was initiated in Victoria to control the Indigenous Australians interests. This meant that the Governor at the time could take the Aborigines' children away from their homes and families and 'improve' their lives in a white community. -
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The Stolen Generations
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Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act (QLD)
This act gave the government in Queensland the right to take the freedom of the Aboriginal people including their children away. During this time Queensland had the highest amount of Indigenous Australian people therefore it effected a wide range of people's lives. -
Aborigines Act (WA)
The Chief Protector is made the lawful custodian for all the Indigenous children under the age of 16. This entitled him to be able to remove the children from their families and homes to be placed in. This was followed in later years when South Australia and New South Wales supported similar acts. -
Assimilation Policy
The assimilation policy was first outlined that 'full-blood' Indigenous people would be bred out and 'half-casts' would marry into white communities and assimilate in the Initial Conference of Commonwealth and State Aboriginal Authorities. This meant the Australian Government expected that the Aboriginals would take on the European ways and 'lose' their culture. -
Aborigines Welfare Board
After losing their power to control and remove the Indigenous Australians from their homes and families the New South Wale Aborigines Protection Board is renamed the Aborigines Welfare. Soon after in 1960 the Board altogether is abolished. -
Link-Up (NSW)
Link-Up is a service that provided Indigenous children who were removed from their families to reconnect to them by finding information about them and sometimes reuniting them together. Brisbane, Darwin, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, Alice Springs and Western Australia all followed this site from the years of 1984-2001 to help more Aboriginals find their families. -
Mandatory sentencing
A national issue of mandatory sentencing arrises in Western Australia and in the Northern Territory. The Federal Parliament expresses their 'deep and sincere regret' regarding the removal of Indigenous children. A People's Walk for Reconciliation is held on 28th May throughout Australia's capitals and Australia is faced upon the United Nations. -
National Apology to the Stolen Generations
Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, formally and publicly apologises to the Indigenous Australians (Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders) for the enforced removal of the children during Australia's history.
