Government Policies and their effects on Indigenous Australians

By Not-Inaya-Soliman
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    Dispossession

    LAW
    • Indigenous people were not recognised as citizens
    • Not a criminal offence to hunt, shoot and kill indigenous people
    • It was believed Indigenous people would die out
    Effect
    * Reduction in indigenous population
    • Traditional Indigenous areas were converted to farming land
    • Aboriginal people could be shot on sight, if armed with spears or within a certain distance from housing or settlements

  • Martial Law NSW

  • Martial law Tasmania

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    Protection

    Law
    * Aboriginal protection Act 1869 (VIC)
    * Aboriginal protection Act 1909 (NSW) Effect
    * Gave wide powers to the board for the protection of Aborigines, which governed where they could work, live, jobs they had, who they could marry and associate with
    * The act included the power to remove from homes and placed in missions (Begining of the Stolen Generation)
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    Assimilation and integration

    Law
    * At this time in history, Aboriginal populations were a long way from dying out
    * A policy was made to 'Europeanise' them so they would leave behind their language, culture, artefacts and traditions to become similar with Europeans Effect
    * The European majority attempted to teach the Indigenous population to be 'white'- This was met with subbmission and resistence

  • Exemption Certificates

    Effect
    * These certificates meant the holders were not Aboriginal
    *Strict conditions Eg. must live the European lifestyle
    * Could be revoked at anytime
    * Aboriginal people choose to apply for this

  • Nationality and Citizenship Act

    Effect
    * Aboriginal people became Australian citezens, along with everyone else
    * NOt all states gave Aboriginal people the right to vote in commonwealth elections

  • Amendments to the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth)

    Effect
    * Gave Aboriginal people the right to vote in Commonwealth elections
    * Australia Wide
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    Reconciliation

    1967 Referendum amending the constitution
    * 'Other than the Aboriginal race in any state' was removed from S51 xxvi.
    *Allowing laws to be made to be benificial to the Aboriginal race
    * Section 127 was deleted

  • creating a nation for all of us

    Recomendations for the constitution to be amended to show recogition of Aboriginals and Torres strait and islander peeople