Aboriginal Protection Boards (“APB”) practiced different measures to control the lives of Aboriginal people in the twentieth century through a form of dispossession. Throughout their lives, Aboriginals, were humiliated, discriminated against and living substandard conditions and facing inequality, was a norm. The APB dispossessed of many imperative and meaningful influences within the Aboriginal people’s lives, work, families and place of residence. The Aboriginal Protection Boards were seen as the “legal” way to condemn the Aborigines, this defined the Boards as superior, granting them substantial authority. This power equipped them in controlling the Aboriginal people’s lives accordingly to their desires and undermining the true intellectuality
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Aboriginal people lived their traditional way of life, within their natural environment, being rich artistic and sustenance based around gathering and hunting. Broome (2010) described the Aboriginal people as the residents that appreciated a loving extended family, the simplicity of bush tucker and the comfort of singing and prayer times, Aboriginal culture interpreted the spiritual connection they had with the land (Broome 1982). Aboriginal people wanted to be equal and live in peace as most of us do; they wanted to stay in their own lands, their homes that they have been in for years “Aboriginals wanted equality with white citizens in economic, social and legal spheres (Goodall, 1982 p 6). However the Aboriginal Protection Board did the exact opposite, it used its powers to control the Aboriginal people, separated them from their families leaving behind their freedom “Amendments to the Protection Act greatly extended state power over Aboriginals, particularly to restrict Aboriginal domicile” (Goodall, 1982 p 5). The Boards reflected poorly on the Aboriginal lifestyle and environment as Broome (2010) highlights the low status that reflected on their housing, clothing, fod, electricity and water. A writer named Violet Turner described the environment that the Aborigines lived within specifically describing the houses at the time with shock “Just behind the …show more content…
The Boards seeming to be “protecting” the Aboriginal people while it is quite evident that attaining authority of Aboriginals lives, wages and labour was the Boards dominant concentration in the intervention, “the property rights of Aboriginal people were not recognised and so they were dispossessed of their land” (Lawrence 2011 p 57). Broome (2010) identifies the Aboriginal people’s disadvantages within health, education and housing which were greatly deteriorating during the time the Aboriginal Protection Boards were in place. Aboriginal children’s self-esteem was continuously in rage as racial name calling and fights continuously happened during school playground and because they were the minority only, “twenty percent had completed one or two years of high school” (Broome 2010, p 184). Like education, material deficiency added to Aboriginal ill health, “ear infections and hearing impairment in forty percent of Aboriginal children, ten times the community rate” (Broome 2010, p
Aboriginal people lived their traditional way of life, within their natural environment, being rich artistic and sustenance based around gathering and hunting. Broome (2010) described the Aboriginal people as the residents that appreciated a loving extended family, the simplicity of bush tucker and the comfort of singing and prayer times, Aboriginal culture interpreted the spiritual connection they had with the land (Broome 1982). Aboriginal people wanted to be equal and live in peace as most of us do; they wanted to stay in their own lands, their homes that they have been in for years “Aboriginals wanted equality with white citizens in economic, social and legal spheres (Goodall, 1982 p 6). However the Aboriginal Protection Board did the exact opposite, it used its powers to control the Aboriginal people, separated them from their families leaving behind their freedom “Amendments to the Protection Act greatly extended state power over Aboriginals, particularly to restrict Aboriginal domicile” (Goodall, 1982 p 5). The Boards reflected poorly on the Aboriginal lifestyle and environment as Broome (2010) highlights the low status that reflected on their housing, clothing, fod, electricity and water. A writer named Violet Turner described the environment that the Aborigines lived within specifically describing the houses at the time with shock “Just behind the …show more content…
The Boards seeming to be “protecting” the Aboriginal people while it is quite evident that attaining authority of Aboriginals lives, wages and labour was the Boards dominant concentration in the intervention, “the property rights of Aboriginal people were not recognised and so they were dispossessed of their land” (Lawrence 2011 p 57). Broome (2010) identifies the Aboriginal people’s disadvantages within health, education and housing which were greatly deteriorating during the time the Aboriginal Protection Boards were in place. Aboriginal children’s self-esteem was continuously in rage as racial name calling and fights continuously happened during school playground and because they were the minority only, “twenty percent had completed one or two years of high school” (Broome 2010, p 184). Like education, material deficiency added to Aboriginal ill health, “ear infections and hearing impairment in forty percent of Aboriginal children, ten times the community rate” (Broome 2010, p