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  title info:
    title: Power and dysfunction
    sub title: the New South Wales board for the protection of Aborigines 1883-1940
  title info:
    title: New South Wales board for the protection of Aborigines 1883-1940
  name:
    name part: Egan, Richard.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  name:
    name part: Australian National University Press
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: aca
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xx, 371 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: In 1883 the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines was tasked with assisting and supporting an Aboriginal population that had been devastated by a brutal dispossession. It began its tenure with little government direction - its initial approach was cautious and reactionary. However, by the turn of the century this Board, driven by some forceful individuals, was squarely focused on a legislative agenda that sought policies to control, segregate and expel Aboriginal people. Over time it acquired extraordinary powers to control Aboriginal movement, remove children from their communities and send them into domestic service, collect wages and hold them in trust, withhold rations, expel individuals from stations and reserves, authorise medical inspections, and prevent any Aboriginal person from leaving the state. Power and Dysfunction explores this Board and uncovers who were the major drivers of these policies, who were its most influential people, and how this body came to wield so much power. Paradoxically, despite its considerable influence, through its bravado, structural dysfunction, flawed policies and general indifference, it failed to manage core aspects of Aboriginal policy. In the 1930s, when the Board was finally challenged by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups seeking its abolition, it had become moribund, paranoid and secretive as it railed against all detractors. When it was finally disbanded in 1940, its 57-year legacy had touched every Aboriginal community in New South Wales with lasting consequences that still resonate today.
  target audience: general
  note: Richard Egan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: u-at-ne
  subject:
    name:
      name part: New South Wales.
      name part: Aborigines Protection Board
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
    geographic: Australia
    geographic: New South Wales
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: Australia
    geographic: New South Wales
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content
  subject:
    topic: Australiens (Aborigènes), Attitudes envers les
    geographic: Australie
    geographic: Nouvelle-Galles du Sud
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Australiens (Aborigènes)
    topic: Politique gouvernementale
    geographic: Australie
    geographic: Nouvelle-Galles du Sud
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Government policy - State and territory - New South Wales
  subject:
    topic: Child welfare - Child / parent separation
  subject:
    topic: Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
    topic: Government policy
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
  subject:
    geographic: New South Wales
  classification: DU124.G68
  classification: 323.1199159
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Power and dysfunction : the New South Wales board for the protection of Aborigines 1883-1940
    origin info:
      publisher: Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, 2021
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Aboriginal History Monographs
  identifier: 9781760464738
  identifier: 1760464732
  identifier: 9781760464721
  identifier: 22573/ctv23g8js2 JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv23hcdwf
  record info:
    record content source: ANV
    record creation date: 211007
    record change date: 20230103223544.2
    record identifier: in00004635827
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng