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The term "Half-Caste Act" was given to Acts of Parliament passed in Victoria and Western Australia allowing the seizure of half-caste children and forcible removal from their parents. This was theoretically to provide them with better homes than those afforded by typical Aboriginal people, where they could grow up to work as domestic servants ...
A portrayal entitled The Taking of the Children on the 1999 Great Australian Clock, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, by artist Chris Cooke. The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, under ...
The Victorian Half-Caste Act 1886 (in full, an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to Provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria") was an extension and expansion of the Aboriginal Protection Act 1869, which gave extensive powers over the lives of Aboriginal people in the colony of Victoria to the Board for the Protection of Aborigines, including regulation ...
The 1886 act provided a resident magistrate with the power to indenture 'half-caste' and Aboriginal children, from a suitable age, until they turned 21. An Aboriginal Protection Board was also established to prevent the abuses reported earlier, but rather than protect Aborigines, it mainly succeeded in putting them under tighter government control.
The new "Half-Caste Home" was opened at Myilly Point in 1924, and most of the Kahlin children were moved there. [3] The compound was damaged in the 1937 cyclone. [4] In 1938, all residents were moved to the new Bagot Aboriginal Reserve. The Kahlin Compound closed in 1939 and was revoked as an Aboriginal Reserve on 3 July 1940. [3]
Kutcha butcha (कच्चा बच्चा) is a Hindi phrase that means "half-baked child,” and is used to refer to biracial people of Indian and (white) British ancestry. [1] The expression consists of two words: kutcha, meaning “uncooked” or “underdone,” and butcha, which literally means “child.” The two words together ...
The department was responsible for the control and welfare of Aboriginal people in the Territory, and under the Act, the Chief Protector was appointed the "legal guardian of every Aboriginal and every half-caste child up to the age of 18 years", and had the power to confine such children to an Aboriginal reserve or institution. [12]
From about 1898, all "half-caste" children on the stations, after leaving school, were given vocational training and sent out to work by the government. [41] The Aborigines Act 1910 [42] re-affirmed that the board had the power to apply all the measures in the 1886 act to "half-castes". [43]