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Aboriginal Protection Boards

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For the majority of the twentieth century British dominance and power over Aboriginal people was continuously encountered. Aboriginal Protection Boards were put into operation with the purpose of adjusting the lives of Aborigines as a mechanism for Aboriginal advancement. However, the measures used by Aboriginal Protection Boards were centred on the authority of the British over the Indigenous people and was another form of dispossession, control and discrimination. The efforts of the British to dispossess and segregate the Aborigines and achieve total supremacy is evident through the Aboriginal Protection Boards ' attempts of incarcerating the Aborigines in reserves, the discrimination towards Aboriginal children and the treatment of Aboriginal …show more content…

Crucial civil liberties such as employment, custody of kids and management over private property were removed, which indicates that Aboriginal people were subject to just about entire control. British peoples ' focal aspiration of complete power is further depicted when Broome (2010, p.173) argues that the Boards wanted to reject Aboriginality altogether when it declined to acknowledge any Aboriginal people as Indigenous within Victoria. The effort to completely disregard or eliminate the Aboriginal way of life would have produced severe social impacts such as emotional and psychological pain; consequentially resulting in a sense of alienation and a loss of social identity. The rejection and isolation of the Aborigines from mainstream society strongly signifies that the actions used by Aboriginal Protection Boards were attempts to dispossess, …show more content…

The attempts of the Australian government to construct a sole, standardised white Australian culture was hunted through the discrimination of Aboriginal children by placing them on apprenticeship schemes and also through assimilation procedures, which consequently had shocking impacts. Within each state of Australia in the beginning of the 1900 's- young Aboriginal boys and girls were forced into labour as a result of Aboriginal Protection Boards managing apprenticeship schemes. Broome (2010) states that young Aboriginal girls for the duration of domestic duties commonly experienced the double hazard of being female and Aboriginal (p.176). All Indigenous kids were supervised by white people under cruel apprenticeships and strict rules as they were working which resulted in low wages and trust accounts. More likely than not, growing up in these brutal circumstances in the early stages of life would have resulted in long-lasting consequences for the mental development and social abilities for many Aboriginal youth. Indigenous children weren 't only subject to being overworked but also were also subject to being removed from their homes and taken away from their parents, as an outcome of the Protection Boards introducing the assimilation policy. Andrew Armitage 's article Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation investigates the assimilation policy and the unjust effect it had on the Aboriginal people. Armitage (1995, ) states that Indigenous children could be taken

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