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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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