Protection Regimes
Book chapter
Nettelbeck, Amanda. (2022). Protection Regimes. In The Cambridge Legal History of Australia pp. 482-501 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108633949
Authors | Nettelbeck, Amanda |
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Abstract | The term ‘protection’ in Australia is closely associated with the practices and institutions of assimilation imposed upon Indigenous people through much of the twentieth century. These practices and institutions were backed by laws that granted state governments wide-ranging powers of control over Indigenous lives, purportedly for their own good. The multi-generational impacts of assimilative policies continue to resonate for Indigenous communities today. Yet apart from the legal regime of assimilation that defined Indigenous policy through the mid-twentieth century, protection has a longer and more complex history in Australia, as it does globally. This chapter traces Australia’s history of protection, from its nineteenth-century origins as a program designed to build Indigenous people’s status as British subjects, to its twentieth-century expressions as a legally-empowered system of state guardianship. While the history of protection is one of legal authority, it is also a history of Indigenous political action. |
Keywords | protection legislation; Protector of Aborigines; Stolen Generations; stolen wages; state surveillance; assimilation; residual welfare; civil rights; Indigenous petitions |
Page range | 482-501 |
Year | 01 Jan 2022 |
Book title | The Cambridge Legal History of Australia |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9781108633949 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108633949 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Aug 2022 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 22 Jan 2024 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/9015v/protection-regimes
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