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Chapter 1: 1788-1837
1788
"An
apparently perennial stream of the purest water"
1789
The
original extent of New South Wales.
1792
The
military administer the Colony.
1800
"The
privilege of being tried by his peers was extended to every man"
1822
"Free
settlement"
1824
The New South Wales Act and the Legislative Council
Trial by jury.
1825
"The
formation of a force of mounted police"
Extension
of New South Wales Westward, 1825.
"Governors
were financially independent because they controlled the money raised from the
sale of Crown land."
1826
1827
The case
of R v Lowe [1827]
1828
Second
Constitution
“The Richmond River was
discovered”
Van Diemen’s Land
Imperial
Act 1828 - All laws and statutes in force in England apply in NSW.
1829
Government resumption of Crown and Church
Lands
1830
"The
vagrancy of their habits"
Sterling
is decreed to be the sole legal standard of value.
Poor old
Boongaree.
1831
The
Church Missionary Society and the Aborigines.
Crown
Land
1833
The
Wellington Missionaries report on the violence of the settlers towards the
Aborigines
Appellate
jurisdiction of Privy Council extended to Colony; civilian juries in criminal
cases.
1834
"Graziers who had well established freehold stations found it abundantly worth while to send flocks out far beyond their accustomed pastures, to graze on good free land
The Missionaries report on the
Aborigines of New Holland.
1835
" New South Wales Attorney General
Saxe Bannister and the value in
recognising customary law".
Annual
Report of the Mission to the Aborigines, for the Year 1835.
1836
The case
of R v Murrell: English law gave equal protection to
Aboriginal people as to Europeans
The
Vagrancy Act; "Every person not being a black native ..."
1837
Proclamation:
"Detaining
by force ... black women of the
Native Tribes ...
Sale of
Land.
Outrages by aborigines
1838
Colonial Secretary: Copies of Minutes and Memoranda Received, 1838
Major Mitchell's attack on the Black Natives.
On the subject of the treatment of the Aboriginal inhabitants of this Country.
Notice re inquests on aborigines.
An apprehension .. of the mischief that might ensue, if any offence were given to the Officers and Men of the Mounted Police.
The Mounted Police are appointed.
Outrages towards the Blacks.
Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council; the Native Inhabitants of Countries where British Settlements are made.
“The spirit of acquisition, and consequent civilization.”
Report from the Committee on the Aborigines Question.
“The present state of the Aborigines”
Mr G.A.Robinson, Chief Protector, and The Aborigines Question
Robert Scott, Esquire, of Glendon, and The Aborigines Question
Scott, Robert (1799?-1844)
The Reverend Lancelot Edward Threlkeld, and The Aborigines Question
Sadleir, Richard (1794-1889)
Magistrate Scott makes himself a party to the defence of the Myall Creek murderers
"Humanity towards the Blacks"
Statement of Expenditure on Account of the Aborigines of New South Wales, For the Year 1838.
No.9. Statement of the Expenses of the Colonial Government Establishments, at Port Phillip. For the Year 1838.
Sir George Gipps – "a Whig, liberal and just"
"The venturesome settlers whose philosophy was that the only good Aboriginal was a dead one"
"The nomadic food gathering tribes in the 'full enjoyment of their possessions'"
"The treatment of the indigenous populations of the ... British colonies"
Forcible removal of Aboriginal people
"It was well known that the British Government was resolved to protect them"
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, surveyor-general
Legal opinion awaited re attack on aborigines by expedition under Mitchell
Capitalism and the NSW Colony
"So long as the demand for Labour, created by the influx of Capitalists ...
"All land in the settled districts was put up to auction"
Act 2: As to supplying Liquors to Aboriginal Natives
1839
"A Border police under the Crown Lands Commissioners"
Legislative Council Proceedings and Proceedings, 1838-1839:
Major Nunn and massacres of Aborigines
"The outrages which have been committed on the Aborigines, as well as by them ..."
Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee on the Crown Lands Bill
J.W. Nunn, Inquiry proposed at Merton ...
Report from the Crown Lands Bill Committee
Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council The unauthorised occupation of Crown Lands, and the Border Police.
Crown Lands unauthorized Occupation.
"... they were not in any case to fire on the blacks, unless it was necessary for their own defence ..."
" the occupiers .. unrestrained in their lawless aggression ... upon the Aborigines"
“Unfortunately killed” “
" ... the unauthorised occupation of Crown Lands."
Deposition by G.G. Cobban re collision between mounted police under J.W. Nunn and aborigines
"Asserting Her Majesty's right to Alienate the Waste Lands of New South Wales".
ORDINANCE Queen Victoria's Government and His Excellency the Governor proclaim the subject and possessory rights of Aborigines of New South Wales.
Deaths in custody, 150 years on .
Standing Orders for the Border Police.
Aboriginal deaths, the legal opinion of John H. Plunkett, Attorney General.
The Protection of the Aborigines.
Magistrate Scott and the Myall Creek murderers.
Atrocities against the blacks.
The execution of the Myall Creek murderers.
"This Government has been in no way neglectful of its duty to the Aborigines".
Major Nunn and a Tribe of Aboriginal Natives.
No blame for Major Nunn and the Military.
"The rejection of the Evidence of these Natives".
Minutes of executive council re collision between mounted police under J.W. Nunn and aborigines.
1840
Royal Instructions; the natural indefeasible property rights of aborigines
Aboriginal Native Witnesses' Bill.
Act 4: Aboriginals competent witnesses, disallowed,
Commissioners of Crown Lands.
"Gipps refused to let them be executed ..."
Mr Redmond Barry, QC.
"Unofficial standing counsel for the Aboriginals"
"A comprehensive annual report on the entire Aboriginal problem"
"An unfortunate collision with the Aborigines"
Captain Grey's Report on the Aborigines.
"The whole Machinery required to bring this plan into operation now exists in the different Australian Colonies ..."
"Report upon the best means of promoting the civilization of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of Australia"
4 Victoria, No 8. An Act to prohibit the Aboriginal Natives of New South Wales from having Fire Arms or Ammunition in their possession, without the permission of a Magistrate.
4 Victoria No. 2 [1840] "For enabling the principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordinance to hold estates and property in the Colony of New South Wales for military purposes"
1841
“The dreadful consequences”:
Aboriginal Evidence in Courts of Law.
Justice Willis and the Aborigines.
"They did not understand the nature of the pleadings ..."
"The colonies and their capitalist backers"
"Aboriginal people live in their own self-governing communities with their own laws and means of administering justice"
1842
The Acts of 1842, New South Wales Imperial Act.
Crown Land Sales Act: and 14 years’ lease to squatters in unsettled districts.
First general election.
"A property franchise"
Sir James Stephens and Race-superiority doctrines.
A promising attempt to utilise the aborigines.
The Banks, and the flocks.
The inadmissibility of Aboriginal Evidence.
"A small property qualification ..."
1843
“A notable land law”
1844
"Mitchell was elected to the Legislative Council"
The House of Commons Reports, Aborigines
1845
The Chief Protective officer and the rights of Aborigines.
"Henry Dangar; Surveyor, pastoralist "
"No sign of improvement in the condition of the aboriginals"
Massacres
of Aborigines at Woodlark Island; 5/1/57
Claims
by Northern Settlers for Provisions for Native Police; m. 4/2/57 (couldn’t
locate)
Report
on Native Police; tab. Pap. 6/2/57
Native
Police Force; m. 7/2/57; tab. Pap. 7/2/57
Native
Police Force, Report and Recommendations; m.7/2/57
Native
Police Force; 11/2/57
Massacre
at Woodlark Island: request to GG for correspondence: m. 11/2/57
Native
Police, request from Governor- General for new estimate; mes. 18/2/57
Killing
of Blacks by Native Troopers; tab. pap. 28/2/57;
Blankets
for Aboriginals; q. 27/3/57
Killing
of Blacks by Native Troopers tab. pap. 21/10/57
Parliamentary
Proceedings on Aborigines
Jan,
4, 6, 7, 11, 18, 19, 20 Feb 1857 Native Police (FIND)
1876
Select
Committee on the condition of the Aborigines
Truganini
Fresh Blood, Old Wounds: Tasmania and Guns
“The
Kangaroo Plague.”
Aboriginal
evidence
1877
Royal Commission into the present condition of the
Aborigines
1880
Parliamentary Proceedings, "Aboriginal natives"
1882
Act, Supply of alcohol to Aborigines forbidden
Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings,
Provision for Aborigines
Select Committee; Aboriginal mission stations
1883
Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings,
Treatment of Aborigines
1884
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings; the Aborigines Protection Board
1885
"Yet even after the appearance of white explorers and
settlers, little was discovered or recorded of any local tribal history
..."
1886
Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings
1887
Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings
1888
Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings, 1888
"A
truly savage race can have nothing that we may narrate as history"
1889
Parliamentary Proceedings, 1889
1890
"Names of Aborigines recommended
for clothing"
1891
Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings, 1891
1892
Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings, 1892
1893
Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings, 1893
"The lowest of mankind"
1894
Parliamentary Proceedings,
A Mission Church
1895
Supply, Aborigines Protection Board
Large landholders
1897
Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings, “our duty to the
blacks”
Aborigines Protection Board Ledger, 1891-97
1898
Government political allegiance
Coloured Races Restriction and Regulation Act 1896 (60 Vic.
No. 41)
Supply of alcohol.
1899
Aborigines Mission.
1900
The
Real Property Act
"The
final guillotining of any vestiges of Aboriginal rights to land..."
Legislative
Assembly Votes and Proceedings,
Breelong murders
Subsection
26 of the Commonwealth Constitution and Aborigines
The
Commonwealth Government's Acts of discrimination
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, 1901
Old
Age Pensions Act.
An
Act to consolidate the Acts for the prevention of Vagrancy 1901
Western
Lands Act (1 Ed. Vll No. 70)
1902
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings;
Animals
Indigenous to the State
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings;
food for aboriginals
Mr
John Norton
Vagrancy
Act 1902
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Treatment of Aborigines.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Food for Aborigines
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Animals Indigenous to the State.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Vagrancy
Bill.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Marsupials
in the State.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Vagrant Children.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Assent to Vagrancy Bill.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Medical Attendants on Aborigines.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Aborigines: Rylstone.
Fisheries
Act, 1902 (2 Edw. Vll) (Includes Crown lands leases).
1903
Government
political allegiance
Parliamentary
Vote and Proceedings,
1903
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Aborigines: La Perouse.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Aborigines Travelling on Trams.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings. Protection of Native Birds and Animals.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Aboriginal Station: Greenwell Point.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Protection of Native Fauna.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Alleged Misuse of Blankets.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Native Animals Protection Bill.
1905
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings.
Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings, blankets for aborigines stamped with the broad arrow.
Act
supply of liquor to
full-blooded or reserve Aboriginals forbidden.
1907
Aboriginal
population statistics, 1907.
1908
Parliamentary
Proceedings, 1908.
Aboriginal
natives of Australia excluded ... from a pension.
Act
22 : definition of 'Aboriginal' Police Offences [Amendment] Act 1908.
1909
Government
political allegiance.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings, Aborigines Protection Bill 1909.
Aboriginal
population statistics.
Aborigines
Protection Act.
1911
"Guardianship
over Indigenous children without parental permission"
Aboriginal
population statistics, 1911.
1912
Government
political allegiance.
Act
supply of alcohol to Aboriginal natives forbidden.
1913
Government
political allegiance.
Act
Aborigines' wages attached.
Act
Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913.
1914
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings and Proceedings, Aboriginal Protection (Amend) Act.
1915
Government
political allegiance.
The
power of the state over Aboriginal families.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings; Aboriginal Protection (Amend.) Act.
Act
28: compulsory apprenticeship and guardianship of Aboriginals.
1916
Aboriginal
population statistics.
1917
Aboriginal
population statistics.
1918
Government
political allegiance.
Act
protection of aborigines.
1920
Royal
Commission into NT Administration and Aborigines.
1924
Government
political allegiance.
Aboriginal
population statistics.
Act
30: Statute Law Revision Act 1924.
1925
"The
decay of the aboriginals"
Aboriginal
population statistics
1928
"Moneys
held in trust"
"Ledgers
(Trust Account), c.1897-1922.
1929
Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings, Aborigines’ Protection Board Inspector.
Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings, Family Endowment: Aborigines.
1930
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings Removal of
Aboriginal Carvings, Mootwingi.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings
Family Endowment, Half-Castes.
Parliamentary
Votes and Proceedings,
Family Endowment, Aborigines Protection Board
Happy
Valley, Frog Hollow and Hill 60.