Timeline of significant Events and Legislation in the History of Child Welfare in Tasmania
1860s
1870s
- Public Charities Act, Colony of Tasmania (1873)
- Juvenile Offenders Act (1875)
- Contagious Diseases Act 42 Victoria no. 36, Colony of Tasmania (1879)
- Contagious Diseases Act 43 Victoria no. 5, Colony of Tasmania (1879)
1880s
- Contagious Diseases Amendment Act, Colony of Tasmania (1881)
- Contagious Diseases Act, Colony of Tasmania (1882)
1890s
- Prevention of Cruelty to and Better Protection of Children Act, Colony of Tasmania (1895)
- Youthful Offenders, Destitute and Neglected Children's Act 1896, Colony of Tasmania
1900s
- Civil Service Act, State of Tasmania (1900)
- Midwifery Nurses Act, State of Tasmania (1901)
- Public Health Act, State of Tasmania (1903)
- Public Service Act, State of Tasmania (1905)
- Youthful Offenders Destitute and Neglected Children's Act 1905, State of Tasmania
- Education Act (1905)
- Infant Life Protection Act 1907, State of Tasmania
1910s
1920s
- Adoption of Children Act 1920, State of Tasmania
- Mental Deficiency Act, State of Tasmania (1920)
- Public Service Act, State of Tasmania (1923)
- Children's Charter Amendment Act 1923, State of Tasmania
1930s
- Education Act (1932)
- Infants' Welfare Act 1935, State of Tasmania
- Lord Nuffield Gift (1935)
- Polio epidemic (1937 - 1938)
1940s
- Commonwealth Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946
- Domestic Assistance Service Act (1947)
- Mothercraft Home Agreement Act (1949)
- Child migration (1949 - 1976)
1950s
1960s
- Child migration (1949 - 1976)
- Child Welfare Act 1960, State of Tasmania
- Mental Health Act 1963, State of Tasmania
- Report of the Public Service Commissioner into allegations concerning conditions and treatment of inmates at Weeroona Girls' Home and the decision and report of the Public Service Appeal Board (1965)
- Weeroona Girls' Home: accuracy and/or veracity of answer to question asked in the House of Assembly (1965)
- Adoption of Children Act 1968, State of Tasmania
1970s
- Child migration (1949 - 1976)
- Handicapped Persons Assistance Act (1970)
- Inquiry into Weeroona Girls' Training Centre by the Public Service Commissioner (1973 - 1974)
- Child Protection Act 1974, State of Tasmania
- Investigation of the care and treatment of 'socially maladjusted teenage girls', Sub-Committee of the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Institute of Welfare Officers (c. 1975)
- Social Welfare Inquiry into Weeroona Girls' Home (1978)
1980s
- Review of Tasmanian Adoption Legislation (1985 - 1986)
- Arthur Young Review of Services (1986)
- Adoption of Children Act 1988, State of Tasmania
1990s
- Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1997, State of Tasmania
- Youth Justice Act 1997, State of Tasmania
- Joint Select Committee on Adoption and Related Services 1958-1988 (1999)
2000s
- Inquiry into children in institutional care (2003 - 2004)
- Listen to the children: review of claims of abuse from adults in state care as children (2003 - 2004)
- Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Tasmania Act 2006, State of Tasmania
- Apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants by the Australian Government (16 November 2009)
2010s
Last updated: 14 May 2013
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