This report is the APB's annual report based on meetings and reports from individuals and inspectors.

Board for the Protection of Aborigines, Aborigines: Annual Report of the Board for Protection of, for the year ended 30th June 1934 (Report, 31 December 1934)

From the 1850s many Aboriginal people lived on reserves, often in homes they built themselves. From 1909 the reserves were owned by the Aborigines Protection Board, which built huts for housing. The Board sought to use housing as an assimilating tool. The poor condition of housing on reserves was recognised...

Housing on reserves

The law determined how much money Aboriginal apprentices should be paid for their work. Before 1941, these payment rates applied if there was no specific agreement between the apprentice and master. After 1941, all apprentices received the rates determined by the law. For Aboriginal people who were not apprentices, laws...

Remuneration

From 1909, the Aborigines Protection Board and later the Aborigines Welfare Board had control over the labour of Aboriginal people living on reserves and could remove people from reserves if they determined they should be working off the reserve. Labour on reserves was often for no pay, unfair pay or...

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Board for the Protection of Aborigines, Aborigines: Annual Report of the Board for Protection of, for the year ended 30th June 1934 (Report, 31 December 1934)

Housing on reserves

Remuneration

Adult labour under the Aborigines Protection Act