protection (rights & freedoms denied)

Question 1

What is protection policy

Answer 1

Protection policy, also known as Paternalism was very damaging. It segregated Aboriginal people, in the belief that they needed to be protected from dying out. Loss of land, living on reserves, the taking away of children all led to outrage.

Question 2

How did it start the stolen generation

Answer 2

Controlled who you could marry, wages, where you could live, beginnings of the Stolen Generations.

Question 3

E.g.

Answer 3

Example: Arthur McQuiggan and Cummeragunja Walk Off.

Answer 4

Each state has a protection board, in Western Australia, the Chief Protector of Aborigines was the infamous Neville, featured in the film Rabbit Proof Fence, a film based on the real life events of Neville who sought to remove half caste children in Western Australia in an eugenics attempt to ‘breed them out.’