Various agencies run by Australia’s different states, charged with institutionally regulating Aboriginal Australians’ second-class citizen status by removing children from their parents, enforcing slavery, and seizing Indigenous people’s land (among other policies).
Aborigines’ Protection Boards Quotes in Black Diggers
The Black Diggers quotes below are all either spoken by Aborigines’ Protection Boards or refer to Aborigines’ Protection Boards. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act One
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ERN: Soldiers. If you can fire a gun and stand in the sun, they might pretend to forget you’re …
NORM: What??
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Aborigines’ Protection Boards Term Timeline in Black Diggers
The timeline below shows where the term Aborigines’ Protection Boards appears in Black Diggers. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act Two
...privileges to every one of us coloured soldiers,” instead of leaving them “servile to the Aborigines’ Protection Board .”
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