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  Early occupation Rule of law Controlled lives Controlled employment community employment Controlled employment rural employment Controlled finances Free from control Community policing ID: 757474

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The History of Racial Discrimination in Queensland

 

Early occupation

Rule of law

Controlled lives

Controlled employment: community employment

Controlled employment: rural employment

Controlled finances

‘Free’ from control

Community policing

Dr

Ros

Kidd www.linksdisk.com/roskiddSlide2

The History of Racial Discrimination in Queensland

Early

occupation

 

Kidnapping

women and children for servants

 

Aboriginal

experts guide explorers, surveyors

 

Essential

workers: roads, farms, stock, domestics

 

1000

permanent workers by 1886

 

Paid

in old clothes, food scraps, alcohol, opium

dregs

Dr

Ros

Kidd www.linksdisk.com/roskiddSlide3

The History of Racial Discrimination in Queensland

Rule of law

 

1897 Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act

- laws in force until 1971

 

Police protectors – surveillance network

 

Transport to missions and settlements; control employment

Dr

Ros

Kidd www.linksdisk.com/roskiddSlide4

The History of Racial Discrimination in Queensland

Controlled lives

 

 

Children separated into dormitories

 

Inadequate government funding: bad diet, unsafe water, poor shelter

 

Rudimentary schooling and child labour

 

Government

seizes

child endowment from 1942 and pensions from 1960

Dr

Ros

Kidd www.linksdisk.com/roskiddSlide5

The History of Racial Discrimination in Queensland

Controlled employment

 

Community employment:

Compulsory unpaid work, punishment for dissent

Wages paid from 1968 but a fraction of basic wage

Underpayment illegal after 1975 RDA

Mass sackings as wages increase

Government

profit late 1970s $20m

p.a.

Seize

Social Security payments for rent

arrears

HREOC

Decision 1996, $7000

compensation

Dr

Ros

Kidd www.linksdisk.com/roskiddSlide6

The History of Racial Discrimination in Queensland

Controlled employment

 

Rural employment:

  From 1897 – compulsory work contracts; 3000 workers in 1907, 5000 in 1960s

Girls and women from communities traded as domestics to early 1970s

Government rates profits ahead of known physical and sexual abuses

 

Aboriginal workforce essential but government sets pitiful wages

 

Widespread employment abuses but few checks on conditions

Dr

Ros

Kidd www.linksdisk.com/roskiddSlide7

The History of Racial Discrimination in Queensland

Controlled

finances

 

Government

controls private accounts 1897 to 1972

 

Permission

to withdraw from savings frequently refused

 

Employers

rort ‘pocket money’; police frauds unchecked

 

1933

all bank accounts centralised, 80% committed for interest revenue

 

Trust

funds misappropriated to cover government liabilities

Dr

Ros

Kidd www.linksdisk.com/roskiddSlide8

The History of Racial Discrimination in Queensland

‘Free’ from control

 

Half

Aboriginal population not ‘under the Act’ but constant risk

 

Routinely

denied rental homes; substandard amenities on country reserves

 

Dr

Ros

Kidd www.linksdisk.com/roskiddSlide9

The History of Racial Discrimination in Queensland

Community policing

 

Aboriginal

police work for manager, not community councils

 

Alcohol

legal on communities from 1972, but minimal facilities

 

Sly

grog fuels fights

 

Infrequent

policing as Police and Aboriginal departments refuse to fund

 

State

police from early 1980s but personnel problematic

 

Policing

reports

show

community complaints still ignored

(

Cape York Justice Study, 2001: Palm Island Select Committee Report, 2005; Palm

Island: Future Directions

,

2006)

Dr

Ros

Kidd www.linksdisk.com/roskidd