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A range of laws applying to or of specific relevance to Indigenous Australians.A number of laws have been passed since the European settlement of Australia, initially by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, then by the Governors or legislature of each of the Australian colonies and more recently by the Parliament of Australia and that of each of its States and Territories, these laws ...
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Act 1989 1989 (No. 149) Yes (as amended) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Act 1964 1964 (No. 56) No Australian Institute of Anatomy Agreement Act 1931 1931 (No. 44) No Australian Institute of Health Act 1987 1987 (No. 41) Yes (as amended)
The Aborigines Act 1915 [45] removed most Aboriginal people from the bounds of the board's regulation by removing their Aboriginal status for the purposes of the act. In 1916, the state's Chief Secretary (Premier) Alexander Peacock , asserted his authority as Chairman, and convened the board for the first time in two years.
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 ...
It was created by the Aborigines Protection Act, 1886 (WA), also known as the Half-Caste Act, described as An Act to provide for the better protection and management of the Aboriginal Natives of Western Australia, and to amend the Law relating to certain Contracts with such Aboriginal Natives (statute 25/1886), and The Aborigines Act, 1889 ...
William Harris (1867–1931) was an early Western Australian activist for Aboriginal civil rights.He has been called "the most significant voice of a generation with the education and social standing to assert their rights as British subjects".
9 May – A general election is held in Tasmania, which implements compulsory voting clauses of the Electoral Act for the first time. The Nationalist Party led by John McPhee defeats the Australian Labor Party, and substantially increasing its majority. 15 August – The two ends of the Sydney Harbour Bridge are joined in the middle.
Aboriginal reserves were used from the nineteenth century to keep Aboriginal people separate from the white Australian population, often ostensibly for their protection. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Protectors of Aborigines had been appointed from as early as 1836 in South Australia (with Matthew Moorhouse as the first permanent appointment as Chief Protector ...