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

Annual Report of the Board for Protection of Aborigines for the year ending 30 December 1910 (30 April 1911)

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 to 1969, NSW laws allowed the Aborigines Protection Board to collect and keep the wages of Aboriginal people in trust accounts. This primarily impacted Aboriginal children who had been placed in apprenticeships. The system made it very difficult for people to access their wages. Labour practices such as...

Stolen wages system

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...

Adult labour under the Aborigines Protection Act

Aboriginal reserves were controlled by the Aborigines Protection Board (and later the Aborigines Welfare Board) from 1909 until 1969. During this time, many reserves were revoked. The land that had been reserved was used for other purposes or sold by the NSW government. In the late 1970s, the Government realised...

Revocation of reserves

In 1909, the Aborigines Protection Board became the owner of all reserves. The Board had control over who could, and could not, live on a reserve. Board officials, including Board employees and NSW police officers, had direct control over the lives of Aboriginal people on reserves.

Aborigines Protection Board and reserves

During the late 1800s, the NSW Government’s focus shifted away from religious missions to reserves and stations. Missions were transformed into the first stations operated by the newly established Aborigines Protection Board. Reserves continued to be set aside for use by Aboriginal people.

The Aborigines Protection Board, missions, stations and reserves

The standard of living on stations and reserves was often very poor. Aboriginal people suffered from sickness, malnutrition, ill treatment and inadequate accommodation. They were expected to work on or off the reserves.

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