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Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1936, New South Wales

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The Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1936 (32/1936) was ‘An Act to make further provisions as to the protection and care of aborigines; to amend the Aborigines Protection Act, 1909, and certain other Acts, in certain respects’. It further extended the powers of the State Government over Aboriginal people – in effect, it treated all Aboriginal people as children and placed them under the control of the Board. It permitted magistrates, with the Aboriginal Protection Board, to remove Aboriginal people to a ‘reserve’ (or anywhere else) if they thought they were living in ‘unsanitary or undesirable conditions’. It was repealed by the Aborigines Act 1969.

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