Power and dysfunction : the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines 1883-1940 / Richard Egan
- Bib ID:
- 8608857
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Egan, Richard, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit
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- Description:
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- Acton, Australian Capital Territory : ANU Press, 2021
- 1 online resource (xx, 369 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
- ISBN:
- 9781760464738
- Series:
- Aboriginal history monographs.
- Summary:
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In 1883 the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines was tasked with assisting and supporting an Aboriginal population that had been devastated by a brutal dispossession. It began its tenure with little government direction - its initial approach was cautious and reactionary. However, by the turn of the century this Board, driven by some forceful individuals, was squarely focused on a legislative agenda that sought policies to control, segregate and expel Aboriginal people. Over time it acquired extraordinary powers to control Aboriginal movement, remove children from their communities and send them into domestic service, collect wages and hold them in trust, withhold rations, expel individuals from stations and reserves, authorise medical inspections, and prevent any Aboriginal person from leaving the state. Power and Dysfunction explores this Board and uncovers who were the major drivers of these policies, who were its most influential people, and how this body came to wield so much power. Paradoxically, despite its considerable influence, through its bravado, structural dysfunction, flawed policies and general indifference, it failed to manage core aspects of Aboriginal policy. In the 1930s, when the Board was finally challenged by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups seeking its abolition, it had become moribund, paranoid and secretive as it railed against all detractors. When it was finally disbanded in 1940, its 57-year legacy had touched every Aboriginal community in New South Wales with lasting consequences that still resonate today.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- New South Wales. Aborigines Protection Board -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- New South Wales -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment of -- New South Wales -- History
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation
- Government policy - State and territory - New South Wales
- New South Wales
- Aboriginal History
- Australian history
- Indigenous studies
- NSW board for the Protection of Aborigines
- policy
- Other authors/contributors:
- Aboriginal History Inc
- Also Titled:
- New South Wales board for the protection of Aborigines 1883-1940
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