POLICY
HOW & WHEN
WHY –UNDERLYING MOTIVES
EFFECT/RESULTS
Protection & Segregation
1838
1902 Aboriginal Protection Act
Assimilation
1915 Law amended so that half-caste girls could be taken and put into domestic work. 1937 “their future lies in their absorption by the peoples of the Commonwealth”.
1951 Formerly adopted by State and Federal.
“Stolen Generation”
Integration
1960s
1973 states agree to transfer their policy and co-ordinating powers to the C’wealth.
Self- Determination
1992 Mabo
1996 Wik
1998 10 Point Plan “Bringing them Home” Report.
2008 Sorry Speech