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authorisation, discrimination and racism
This page of the presentation is to educate you of laws, decisions and opinions of the government that either are for the good or bad of the Aborigines.
-1804, settlers are authorised to shoot unarmed aboriginal people.
-1816, Governor Macquarie announces that no aboriginal person is allowed to to appear armed within a mile of any settlement, and no more than 6 aboriginals are allowed to lurk or loiter near farms due to aboriginals attacking farms at the edge of sydney.
-August 1824, Martial law is proclaimed at bathurst after 7 europeans are killed by aboriginals, led by Windradyne. soldiers, mounted police, settlers and stockmen frequently are attacking aboriginals, around 100 are killed over the massacre, law ends in december. known as the bathurst war.
In Tasmania, Governor Arthur also proclaims martial law, in effect, a declaration of war. Soldiers have the right to arrest or shoot any Aboriginal person found in the settled district.
-1888, The phrase ‘White Australia Policy’ appears in William Lane’s Boomerang newspaper in Brisbane. Aboriginal population reduced by 220,000 Australia-wide to an estimated 80,000.
-1 January 1901, Federation - The Commonwealth Constitution states "in reckoning the numbers of people… Aboriginal natives shall not be counted". It also states that the Commonwealth would legislate for any race except Aboriginal people. This leaves the power over Aboriginal Affairs with the states. Aboriginal people are excluded from the vote, pensions, employment in post offices, enlistment in armed forces and maternity allowance.
-September, The government introduces the white Australia policy, trying to ban all non-Caucasian people from entering the country.
-1912, Maternity allowance is introduced but does not include Aboriginal people.
-1918, The Northern Territory Aboriginal Ordinance Act "ensured that Aboriginal people could not drink or possess or supply alcohol or methylated spirits, could not come within two chains of licensed premises, have firearms, marry non-Aboriginal people without permission. The Ordinance also forbids mining on Aboriginal Reserve Land.
-1927, Federal law for family endowment (taking, exchanging), excludes Aboriginal people and instead payments go to Aborigines Protection Board. Aboriginal people are denied maternity allowance and old age pension. Aboriginal people are banned from central Perth until 1948.
-1934, Under the Aborigines Act, Aboriginal people can apply to ‘cease being Aboriginal’ and have access to the same rights as ‘whites’.
The Arnhem Land Reserve is declared.
-1938, For the Europeans ‘celebration’ of 150 years of "settlement" in NSW, the government transports Aboriginal people from western communities to Sydney to take part in the re-enactment of the British landing on 26 January 1788. Aboriginal organisations in Sydney refused to participate.
-1939, The Aborigines Protection Board in South Australia is established.
-1940, Amendments to the NSW Aborigines protection legislation results in the replacement of the Aborigines Protection Board with the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board. Responsibility for Aboriginal education is transferred to the Department for Education, which takes control of reserve buildings and starts to provide trained teachers.
-1945, Aboriginal cattle station workers in the Port Hedland district of Western Australia strike for a pay increase. They are getting 10 shillings a week and are supplied with blankets. Aboriginal people then form a co-operative to mine alluvial wolfram which was successful.
An investigation shows Aboriginal people on Lord Vestey’s Northern Territory cattle station are getting poor rations, inadequate housing, water and sanitation facilities and are paid less than the five shillings a day minimum wage, which was set for Aboriginal people in a 1918 ordinance. European males receive two pounds and eight shillings (equal to 48 shillings) a week in 1945.
-1946, Aboriginal children need a medical certificate to attend public schools.
Aboriginal pastoral workers initiate the Pilbara strike in Western Australia over pay, conditions and ill treatment.
-1949, February: A group of Aboriginal stockmen including Ampilatwatja man Banjo Morton walk off from the Lake Nash Cattle Station demanding wages instead of rations. After a short period they are paid one pound a week. It is the first time Aboriginal stockmen walked off disputing labour conditions in the NT.
-1957, 10 June: The Palm Island workforce demonstrates and strikes against unfair wages and apartheid. In response, the Queensland government dispatches 20 police to put the rebellion down. At gunpoint, 7 men and their families are shipped off the island in leg irons and transported to settlements on the mainland.
-1965, Integration policyIntegration policy is introduced, supposedly to give Aboriginal people more control over their lives and society.
Northern Territory patrol officers ‘bring in’ the last group of Aboriginal people - the Pintubi people - living independently in the desert. They are relocated to Papunya and Yuendumu, about 300 kms north-west of Alice Springs.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’ Affairs Act, passed in Queensland, gives the Director of Aboriginal Affairs considerable power over ‘assisted Aborigines’. For example, an assisted Aboriginal person could be detained for up to a year for behaving in an ‘offensive, threatening, insolent, insulting, disorderly, obscene or indecent manner’ or ‘leaving, escaping or attempting to leave or escape from the reserve’.
The Northern Territory’s Supreme Court rejects the application by Frank Ganngu and Elsie Darbuma for the return of their three children, who were taken from the leprosarium at the Oenpelli mission (about 220 kms east of Darwin) and fostered out.
-The BTHR sets up a national compensation fund for all those who were affected by the stolen generations.
-1804, settlers are authorised to shoot unarmed aboriginal people.
-1816, Governor Macquarie announces that no aboriginal person is allowed to to appear armed within a mile of any settlement, and no more than 6 aboriginals are allowed to lurk or loiter near farms due to aboriginals attacking farms at the edge of sydney.
-August 1824, Martial law is proclaimed at bathurst after 7 europeans are killed by aboriginals, led by Windradyne. soldiers, mounted police, settlers and stockmen frequently are attacking aboriginals, around 100 are killed over the massacre, law ends in december. known as the bathurst war.
In Tasmania, Governor Arthur also proclaims martial law, in effect, a declaration of war. Soldiers have the right to arrest or shoot any Aboriginal person found in the settled district.
-1888, The phrase ‘White Australia Policy’ appears in William Lane’s Boomerang newspaper in Brisbane. Aboriginal population reduced by 220,000 Australia-wide to an estimated 80,000.
-1 January 1901, Federation - The Commonwealth Constitution states "in reckoning the numbers of people… Aboriginal natives shall not be counted". It also states that the Commonwealth would legislate for any race except Aboriginal people. This leaves the power over Aboriginal Affairs with the states. Aboriginal people are excluded from the vote, pensions, employment in post offices, enlistment in armed forces and maternity allowance.
-September, The government introduces the white Australia policy, trying to ban all non-Caucasian people from entering the country.
-1912, Maternity allowance is introduced but does not include Aboriginal people.
-1918, The Northern Territory Aboriginal Ordinance Act "ensured that Aboriginal people could not drink or possess or supply alcohol or methylated spirits, could not come within two chains of licensed premises, have firearms, marry non-Aboriginal people without permission. The Ordinance also forbids mining on Aboriginal Reserve Land.
-1927, Federal law for family endowment (taking, exchanging), excludes Aboriginal people and instead payments go to Aborigines Protection Board. Aboriginal people are denied maternity allowance and old age pension. Aboriginal people are banned from central Perth until 1948.
-1934, Under the Aborigines Act, Aboriginal people can apply to ‘cease being Aboriginal’ and have access to the same rights as ‘whites’.
The Arnhem Land Reserve is declared.
-1938, For the Europeans ‘celebration’ of 150 years of "settlement" in NSW, the government transports Aboriginal people from western communities to Sydney to take part in the re-enactment of the British landing on 26 January 1788. Aboriginal organisations in Sydney refused to participate.
-1939, The Aborigines Protection Board in South Australia is established.
-1940, Amendments to the NSW Aborigines protection legislation results in the replacement of the Aborigines Protection Board with the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board. Responsibility for Aboriginal education is transferred to the Department for Education, which takes control of reserve buildings and starts to provide trained teachers.
-1945, Aboriginal cattle station workers in the Port Hedland district of Western Australia strike for a pay increase. They are getting 10 shillings a week and are supplied with blankets. Aboriginal people then form a co-operative to mine alluvial wolfram which was successful.
An investigation shows Aboriginal people on Lord Vestey’s Northern Territory cattle station are getting poor rations, inadequate housing, water and sanitation facilities and are paid less than the five shillings a day minimum wage, which was set for Aboriginal people in a 1918 ordinance. European males receive two pounds and eight shillings (equal to 48 shillings) a week in 1945.
-1946, Aboriginal children need a medical certificate to attend public schools.
Aboriginal pastoral workers initiate the Pilbara strike in Western Australia over pay, conditions and ill treatment.
-1949, February: A group of Aboriginal stockmen including Ampilatwatja man Banjo Morton walk off from the Lake Nash Cattle Station demanding wages instead of rations. After a short period they are paid one pound a week. It is the first time Aboriginal stockmen walked off disputing labour conditions in the NT.
-1957, 10 June: The Palm Island workforce demonstrates and strikes against unfair wages and apartheid. In response, the Queensland government dispatches 20 police to put the rebellion down. At gunpoint, 7 men and their families are shipped off the island in leg irons and transported to settlements on the mainland.
-1965, Integration policyIntegration policy is introduced, supposedly to give Aboriginal people more control over their lives and society.
Northern Territory patrol officers ‘bring in’ the last group of Aboriginal people - the Pintubi people - living independently in the desert. They are relocated to Papunya and Yuendumu, about 300 kms north-west of Alice Springs.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’ Affairs Act, passed in Queensland, gives the Director of Aboriginal Affairs considerable power over ‘assisted Aborigines’. For example, an assisted Aboriginal person could be detained for up to a year for behaving in an ‘offensive, threatening, insolent, insulting, disorderly, obscene or indecent manner’ or ‘leaving, escaping or attempting to leave or escape from the reserve’.
The Northern Territory’s Supreme Court rejects the application by Frank Ganngu and Elsie Darbuma for the return of their three children, who were taken from the leprosarium at the Oenpelli mission (about 220 kms east of Darwin) and fostered out.
-The BTHR sets up a national compensation fund for all those who were affected by the stolen generations.