Power and Dysfunction

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dc.alternateIdentifier9781760464738
dc.alternateIdentifier10.22459/PD.2021
dc.creatorEgan, Richard
dc.date2021-11-19T16:22:41Z
dc.date2021-11-19T16:22:41Z
dc.date2021
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T14:08:57Z
dc.descriptionIn 1883, the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines was tasked with assisting and supporting an Aboriginal population that had been devastated by a brutal dispossession. It began its tenure with little government direction – its initial approach was cautious and reactionary. However, by the turn of the century this Board, driven by some forceful individuals, was squarely focused on a legislative agenda that sought policies to control, segregate and expel Aboriginal people. Over time it acquired extraordinary powers to control Aboriginal movement, remove children from their communities and send them into domestic service, collect wages and hold them in trust, withhold rations, expel individuals from stations and reserves, authorise medical inspections, and prevent any Aboriginal person from leaving the state. Power and Dysfunction explores this Board and uncovers who were the major drivers of these policies, who were its most influential people, and how this body came to wield so much power. Paradoxically, despite its considerable influence, through its bravado, structural dysfunction, flawed policies and general indifference, it failed to manage core aspects of Aboriginal policy. In the 1930s, when the Board was finally challenged by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups seeking its abolition, it had become moribund, paranoid and secretive as it railed against all detractors. When it was finally disbanded in 1940, its 57-year legacy had touched every Aboriginal community in New South Wales with lasting consequences that still resonate today.
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dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51551
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/23455
dc.identifierdoi10.22459/PD.2021
dc.imprintANU Press
dc.languageeng
dc.licenseConditionAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.pages390
dc.placepublicationCanberra
dc.publisherANU Press
dc.publisherANU Press
dc.relationAboriginal History Monographs
dc.relationisPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
dc.relationisbn9781760464738
dc.resourceTypebook
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourcebook.pdf
dc.subjectAboriginal History
dc.subjectNSW board for the Protection of Aborigines
dc.subjectAustralian history
dc.subjectIndigenous studies
dc.subjectpolicy
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies::JBSL11 Indigenous peoples
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBA Relating to Indigenous peoples
dc.titlePower and Dysfunction

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