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Running head: Historical Acts of AdministrationHistorical Acts of AdministrationAboriginal Protection and RestrictionName of StudentName of Institution
Historical Acts of Administration2The Queensland's Aborigines Protection and Preservation Act of 1897 is a historical Actof administration whose primary object was the control of the movements of Aboriginals, theirright to negotiate and enter into employment contracts, the right to hold their own funds andspend it as they wish (Attenbrow, 2010, p. 28). The control of such rights was reserved by theAct to police protectors and reserve superintendents. The Act accorded Aboriginals inferiorstatus in the society and regarded them as slaves who did not deserve payment of wages asopposed to the whites. The Act was a tool used to discriminate on Aboriginals who were blacks(Frances, 2013, p. 19).The Act had several key elements. The first element of the historical Act was the denialof the majority of the persons from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trait the right toparticipate in elections. They were disqualified by the Act from taking part in any of the Generalelections by the Elections Act until its amendment in 1965. The other key element of the Act wasthe control of the Aboriginal by the Native police as the main instrument used by the governmentto administer and control the reserves where persons of Aboriginal origin lived. There was racialdiscrimination and forced labor without any form of payment, and if there was any payment, itwas very meager. The key element I want to discuss is the government control of the Aboriginal peoplewhich led to isolation, segregation, and subjection of the people to forced labor. The young menand women were contracted to undertake domestic work for the white people without any formof consultation. It was a form of forced labor where the young men and women worked onpastoral stations under the close watch and supervision of state officials (Rolls & Johnson, 2011,p. 17). Though a few of the Aboriginal people were exempted from the application of the Act, aconsiderable number of the population especially those who lived in the reserves were subjected
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