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1869
The Victorian Aborigines Protection Board's, Governor had the power to remove Aborigine children from their families. As they had taken the children they were housed into dormitories -
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1883
The New South Wales Protection Board managed the lives of 9,000 people. -
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1897
The Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act of Queensland had also allowed the removal of Aboriginal children holding them into dormitories by the 'Chief Protector'. The Director of Native Welfare who is a legal guardian of the Aboriginal children despite their parents presence or absence, until 1965. -
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1905
The Western Australian Aborigines Act, had the same impact influenced by the previous States under the power of the 'Chief Protector' with the authority of a legal guardian of every Aboriginal or 'half-caste' child under the age of 16 years. This then affected other states to imitate such laws. -
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1909
Aborigines Act of New South Wales had undertaken the 'Chief Protector' as the full control of custody of an Aboriginal child if they were to be found disregarded under the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act of 1909 (NSW). -
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1911
The South Australian Aborigines Act had the authority of willingly making the 'Chief Protector' the legal guardian of every Aboriginal and 'half-caste' child under the age of 21 years. Chief Protector also deemed the housing of the child. In 1939 the Aborigines Protection Board took over the Chief Protector and so guardianship is repealed in 1962. -
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1915
The Aborigines Protection Amending Act of New South Wales had provide the Aboriginal Protection Board to separate Indigenous children from their families without the authority of the court. -
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1935
Infants of the Welfare of Tasmania is used to remove the Indigenous children on Cape Barren Island from their families. -
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1937
The very first Commonwealth/ State conference on 'native welfare' had the agreement of assimilation as an official policy. -
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1940
The NSW Aborigines Protection Board misplace their capability of removing Indigenous children from their poor families. The board changed it's name into the Aborigines Welfare Board as it had decisively was put to an end.
