offices involved in managing the affairs of Indigenous people in their jurisdictions. The role of Protector of Aborigines was first established in South Australia...
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A. O. Neville (category Public servants of Western Australia)
British-Australian public servant who served as the Chief Protector of Aborigines and Commissioner of Native Affairs in Western Australia, a total term from...
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George Augustus Robinson (category Settlers of Tasmania)
superintendent of this facility, where his mismanagement resulted in the deaths of many of those exiled. He was appointed Chief Protector of Aborigines by the...
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William Garnet South (category Colony of South Australia people)
police officer in Alice Springs and Chief Protector of Aborigines. He was also, for a short period, proprietor of the Stuart Arms Hotel in Alice Springs...
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William Thomas (Australian settler) (category Settlers of Melbourne)
attention of the post-Reform Act government. Thomas was one of four Assistant Protectors of Aborigines appointed by Lord Glenelg, Colonial Secretary of State...
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Aboriginal Protection Board, also known as Aborigines Protection Board, Board for the Protection of Aborigines, Aborigines Welfare Board (and in later sources...
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Aboriginal South Australians (redirect from Indigenous peoples of South Australia)
(then president of the Aborigines Protection League), and supported by the South Australian government. In 1909, the Protector of Aborigines in South Australia...
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Charles Sievwright (section Protector of Aborigines)
officer before being appointed Assistant Protector of Aborigines in part of the Port Phillip District of the colony of New South Wales, now Victoria, Australia...
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Stolen Generations (category Genocide of Indigenous Australians)
to extinction. The idea expressed by A. O. Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines for Western Australia, and others as late as 1930 was that mixed-race...
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Aboriginal reserve (category History of Australia (1851–1900))
the Aborigines Act 1911, to take control of the existing missions. The Aborigines Act Amendment Act 1939 abolished the office of Chief Protector of Aborigines...
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Northern Territory Aboriginals Act 1910 (redirect from Aborigines Ordinance 1918)
Northern Territory Aboriginals Department and created the office of Chief Protector of Aborigines. On 1 January 1911, the Northern Territory was transferred...
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Western District (Victoria) (category Regions of Victoria (state))
Robinson: Protector of Aborigines. Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press. p. 172. Rae-Ellis, Vivienne (1988). Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines. Melbourne:...
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Aborigines Act 1905 Act created the position of Chief Protector of Aborigines who became the legal guardian of every Aboriginal child to the age of 16...
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be established within the Department of the Interior, based in Darwin. The post of Chief Protector of Aborigines would be abolished. While focused on...
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Cecil Cook (physician) (category Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
Chief Medical Officer and Protector of Aborigines for the Northern Territory in 1927. He established much of the infrastructure of the public health system...
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farmer, and protector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. Cahill was born in around 1863 in Laidley, Queensland and was the son of Thomas and Sarah...
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Edward Stone Parker (category Settlers of Melbourne)
Methodist preacher and assistant Protector of Aborigines in the Aboriginal Protectorate established in the Port Phillip District of colonial New South Wales under...
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Defensor Heavenly protector Lord Protector (sometimes in the short form Protector) Protector of Aborigines Protectorate for the use of the word for a state...
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Moore River Native Settlement (category History of Western Australia)
Moore River Native Settlement was opened under the auspices of the Chief Protector of Aborigines, A. O. Neville. Neville came to this position completely...
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Walter Bromley (category Year of birth uncertain)
appointed Protector of Aborigines, succeeding George Stevenson. He closed his school on 19 May 1837 and commenced his work, living among the Aborigines and...
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Tribes of Western Australia. Bates was appointed as a Travelling Protector of Aborigines in 1910 and continued to conduct research and welfare work among...
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Half-Caste Act (redirect from Western Australian Aborigines Protection Act)
[citation needed] Protectors of Aborigines were appointed by the Board under the conditions laid down in the various Acts. In theory, Protectors were empowered...
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Eumeralla Wars (category Military history of Victoria (state))
late 1834, and is also mentioned in the journals of George Augustus Robinson, the Protector of Aborigines in the region. In 1837 settlers in the Portland...
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Maulboyheenner (category History of Australia (1788–1850))
"blacks" when he became Chief Protector of Aborigines at Port Phillip. In September 1841, Maulboyheenner and another four of the Indigenous Tasmanians including...
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Convincing Ground massacre (category Massacres of Indigenous Australians)
In a conversation in 1841 with George Augustus Robinson, the Protector of Aborigines, Edward Henty and Police Magistrate James Blair said the whalers...
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Tunnerminnerwait (redirect from Jack of Cape Grim)
George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector of Aborigines, at Robbins Island in June 1830. He worked for Robinson as one of his guides on expeditions around...
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Wonnerup massacre (category Massacres of Indigenous Australians)
and other settlers then returned home. At that time Symmons, the Protector of Aborigines arrived and apparently was roundly abused by the settlers. The...
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Institutional racism (category Definition of racism controversy)
Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 (Qld), the Aborigines Ordinance 1918 (NT), the Aborigines Act 1934 (SA) and the 1936 Native...
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Charles Frederick Gale (category Public servants of Western Australia)
senior Australian civil servant, Chief Inspector of Fisheries in Perth and Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia. Charles Frederick Gale was...
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Tangambalanga (category Shire of Indigo)
"Protector of Aborigines". The Post Office opened on 1 December 1911. Situated in a valley, the town exists around the dairy and cheese factory of the...
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