Various state-based Aboriginal Protection Boards were established which had virtually complete control over the lives of Indigenous Australians – where they lived, their employment, marriage, education and included the power to separate children from their parents. Aborigines were not allowed to vote and were often confined to reserves and forced into low paid or effectively slave labour.
What did the Aboriginal Protection Boards control?
where they lived, their employment, marriage, education and included the power to separate children from their parents.