Children’s Protection Act 1899
An offence for a near relative or other person having the care, custody or control of a child to neglect to provide food, clothing and lodging for the child; to ill-treat, neglect, abandon or expose the child or cause the child to be so treated. A child found by a court to be so treated may be removed to an institution.
Repealed by Children’s Protection Act 1936
1910s
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Aborigines Act 1911
Established the position of Chief Protector of Aboriginals and a system of regional Protectors.
Definitions
half-caste – ‘the offspring of an aboriginal mother and other than an aboriginal father’
aboriginal – an ‘aboriginal native of Australia or of any of the islands adjacent or belonging thereto’; ‘a half-caste who lives with such an aboriginal native as wife or husband’; ‘a half-caste who ... habitually lives or associates with such aboriginal natives’; or ‘a half-caste child whose age does not apparently exceed sixteen years’. The term ‘half-caste’ for the purposes of the definition of ‘aboriginal’ includes any person ‘either of whose parents is or was an aboriginal and any child of any such person’
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