An Act to Amend the “Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act of 1865” (Act no. 6 Edw. VII No.6),passed on the 19 October 1906. This act amends the 1865 Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act (Act no. 8/1865 29 Vic No.8). The key purpose of this amendment was to extend the classification of a child from someone…
“An Act to Prevent the Improper Employment of Aboriginal Natives of Australia and New Guinea on Ships in Queensland Waters” (Act no. 48 Vic. No.20), Assented 17 November 1884 and repealed by on the Aboriginals Preservation and Protection Act 1939 (Act no. 3 Geo. VI No.6) 12 of October 1939. The act details the rules…
Forgotten Australians : Micah Pilot Oral History and Digital Story Project [sound and video recording] is a pilot oral history and digital story project for Micah Projects Inc. and Lotus Place Forgotten Australians Support Service. It was achieved in collaboration with Red Thread Stories, through a Forde Foundation grant and the collection is now held…
First Contact Aboriginal Corporation for Youth was established on 10 March 1994. First Contact Aboriginal Corporation for Youth ran First Contact from 1994 to 1999. It later provided 24 hour resource and referral services and access to a development and training facility. In 2013 the company went into liquidation and was no longer in operation…
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian Church that follows the beliefs described by the Holy Scriptures. It originated in the United States, spread to Europe and as a result of the Church’s missionary work, came to Australia in 1885. The first Seventh-day Adventists came to Queensland around 1890. Seventh-day Adventist Missionaries in Australia were…
The Public Instruction Department was established on 1 January 1876 under The State Education Act of 1875 to be responsible for the administration of preschool to secondary school education in Queensland. The Department ran the Queensland School for the Deaf from 1893 to 1957. In 1957, with the passing of the State Education Acts and…
Mona Mona Mission, at Kuranda, was run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Mission opened in 1913 and children from the mission, aged 6 and up, were taken from their families and placed into single-sex dormitories. The last dormitory closed along with the Mission in 1962. The Mona Mona Mission was established in 1913 at…
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and Development Department was created on 4 September 1998. The Department amalgamated the Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and the Community and Personal Histories Section from various Government Departments. The creation of this department reflected a shift in policy at this time away from a…
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy Department was created on 22 February 2001. It was previously known as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and Development Department. The Department was responsible for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy, rights and culture. In 2006, the Department was abolished and its functions transferred to the Communities…
The Community Services and Ethnic Affairs Department was created on 14 December 1987. Previously known as the Community Services Department the main difference in the policy for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders was the change towards a supportive rather than a directive role with programmes and activities established to transfer administrative responsibilities to Aboriginal…
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