"Protection Reports" : To remove and protect - the Australian government motto of today and yesterday
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Sir George Grey, a member of the Committee requested of the King of England: ‘... that measures be taken to secure to the natives of the several Colonies the due observance of justice, and protection of their rights.' 1
However as government protectors were appointed and 'protection' laws passed, their role quickly changed from protection to the control of the lives of Aboriginal people.
This control included almost all aspects of Aboriginal people’s lives with ‘Protection’ laws and regulations determining every aspect of their lives – from the forced removal of children, where they lived, worked, had wages and entitlements withheld (now known as Stolen Wages), owned land, to their personal relationships and contact with family and community.. These laws were in force from the 1840s (in some states) and then, after federation, well into the 1960s and even the 1970s for some states.
On 21-23 April 1937, there was a conference held of "Chief Protectors and Boards controlling aborigines in the States and the Northern Territory." The proceedings of this conference clearly detail the degree of control that the state and territory governments had over Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at that time." (Source : http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/exhibitions/remove/index.html)
Nothing has changed, welfare organisations (Community Services / Child Protection / Human Services) has adopted exactly the same practises as these regulations from 1840. The only difference is that courts have been put into place to disguise what is actually happening, in an effort to purport that only children who are truly in need of "care and protection" are removed.
But this is not the case. And when welfare is involved, they do control every aspect of your life. They control your wages by continuing to force you to go to court to fight for your child; they deny the child (ward) contact with anybody who speaks out against the system and splits siblings up into smaller groups as it is more financially viable for other operators involved.
