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It’s for your own good

Aborigines are all too familiar with draconian restrictions

2 October 2021

9:00 AM

2 October 2021

9:00 AM

The Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW), and the Welfare Board it empowered, for decades controlled all aspects of life for Aboriginal people in New South Wales for the purposes of our ‘protection and care’.

This regime regulated Aboriginal people’s movement and enforced segregation, banned us from having a drink in a pub or gathering in groups in public and restricted who could visit our homes.

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