The Stolen Generation

By Dmccormick.sfx

  • James Cook plants the flag

    British Captain James Cook plants the British flag in Australian soil, therefore claiming possession of the whole east coast of Australia (Possession Island).

  • The First Fleet lands in Port Jackson

    The British start to settle in Australia, disrupting the native people. Clashes between both settlers and natives are reported for the next 10 years.

  • Tasmanian Aboriginal people are resettled

    The community was resettled on Flinders Island. Later moved to Cape Barren Island.

  • APA Establishes an Aborigines Protection Board

    In Victoria, the APA establishes an Aborigines Protection Board to manage the interests of the aboriginal people. The governor of Victoria can order anyone to have any certain child removed from their family and moved to a reformatory or an industrial school.

  • Australia becoming a Federation

    In 1901, Australia now becomes a Federation. The constitution however states that all Aborigines won't take part and be counted in the census, and that the commonwealth can make laws that are towards any race of people in Australia but not the aborigines only.

  • APA Allowing custody of any Aborigine to be 'neglected'

    The APA (Aborigines Protection Act) granted the Aborigines Protection Board to have the power to assume full control and have full custody of any aboriginal child if the court grants then neglected under the law Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act 1905 (NSW)

  • Chief's now legal guardians of aboriginal children

    The aborigines act now makes the chief protector the legal guardian of every aboriginal and half cast child with also the abilities to remove indigenous people to and from reserves.

  • Separation of Indigenous Children

    The Aborigines Protection Amending Act gives power to the aboriginal protection board to allow them to separate any indigenous child from their family without needing an establishment in court for them being neglected or not.

  • The loss of power to remove Indigenous children.

    The New South Whales Aborigines Protection Board loses their ability to remove any aboriginal or indigenous child, and then had renamed the board to the Aborigines Welfare Board.

  • The end of the stolen generation

    by 1969, all states in australia had gotten rid of the legislation for the removal of aboriginal children under the policy of 'protection'. AICCA's are set up to contest the removing of indigenous applications and instead supply alternatives to the removal of the indigenous children