LEADER 03709oam 2200589 450 001 9910508501503321 005 20220308055132.0 035 $a(CKB)5590000000630200 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6829399 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6829399 035 $a(OCoLC)1273742980 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74458 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000630200 100 $a20220207d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 181 $csti$2rdacontent 181 $ccri$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPower and dysfunction $ethe New South Wales board for the protection of Aborigines 1883-1940 /$fRichard Egan 210 $aCanberra$cANU Press$d2021 210 1$aCanberra :$cANU Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (370 pages) $cillustrations (black and white), colour maps, portraits 225 1 $aAboriginal History Monographs 311 08$aPrint version: 9781760464721 1760464732 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aIn 1883, the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines was tasked with assisting and supporting an Aboriginal population that had been devastated by a brutal dispossession. It began its tenure with little government direction - its initial approach was cautious and reactionary. However, by the turn of the century this Board, driven by some forceful individuals, was squarely focused on a legislative agenda that sought policies to control, segregate and expel Aboriginal people. Over time it acquired extraordinary powers to control Aboriginal movement, remove children from their communities and send them into domestic service, collect wages and hold them in trust, withhold rations, expel individuals from stations and reserves, authorise medical inspections, and prevent any Aboriginal person from leaving the state. Power and Dysfunction explores this Board and uncovers who were the major drivers of these policies, who were its most influential people, and how this body came to wield so much power. Paradoxically, despite its considerable influence, through its bravado, structural dysfunction, flawed policies and general indifference, it failed to manage core aspects of Aboriginal policy. In the 1930s, when the Board was finally challenged by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups seeking its abolition, it had become moribund, paranoid and secretive as it railed against all detractors. When it was finally disbanded in 1940, its 57-year legacy had touched every Aboriginal community in New South Wales with lasting consequences that still resonate today. 410 0$aAboriginal history monograph series 517 3 $aPower & dysfunction :$ethe New South Wales board for the protection of Aborigines 1883-1940 606 $aAboriginal Australians, Treatment of$zAustralia$zNew South Wales$xHistory 606 $aAboriginal Australians$xGovernment policy$zAustralia$zNew South Wales$xHistory 607 $aNew South Wales$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 610 $aAboriginal History 610 $aNSW board for the Protection of Aborigines 610 $aAustralian history 610 $aIndigenous studies 610 $apolicy 615 0$aAboriginal Australians, Treatment of$xHistory. 615 0$aAboriginal Australians$xGovernment policy$xHistory. 676 $a323.1199159 700 $aEgan$b Richard$c(Historian),$01208799 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910508501503321 996 $aPower and dysfunction$92788998 997 $aUNINA