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Two years after the British flag is raised in Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) settlers are authorised to shoot Indigenous Australians.
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Tasmanian Indigenous Australians are forced settle on Flinders Island. Conditions are appalling and many died. Later the community is moved to Cape Barren Island.
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Non-indigenous citizens can be sent to jail with hard labour for "lodging or wandering in company with any of the black natives of the colony". This clause appears alot well into the following century.
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(see slide 6 for info)
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The phrase 'White Australia Policy' appears in William Lane's Brisbane magazine Boomerang.
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