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The role of Protectors of Aborigines resulted from a recommendation of the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Aborigines (British Settlements). On 31 January 1838, Lord Glenelg, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies sent Governor Gipps the report.

ahahahahaha The report recommended that Protectors of Aborigines should be engaged. They would be required to learn the Aboriginal language and their duties would be to watch over the rights of Aborigines, guard against encroachment on their property and to protect them from acts of cruelty, oppression and injustice. The Port Phillip Protectorate was established with George Augustus Robinson as chief protector and four full-time protectors.^[1]

While the role was nominally to protect Aborigines, particularly in remote areas, it has been suggested that the role included social control up to the point of controlling whom individuals were able to marry and where they lived and managing their financial affairs.^{[citation needed]}

As well as Robinson, A. O. Neville and Edward John Eyre were notable Protectors of Aborigines.

Matthew Moorhouse was the first Protector of Aborigines in South Australia.

Aborigines Welfare Board in New South Wales was abolished in 1969. By then all states & territories had repealed the legislation allowing for the removal of Aboriginal children under the policy of 'protection'.^[2]

Protectors of Aborigines

Protectors of Aborigines around Australia included:

Victoria (Port Phillip Protectorate, 1839–1849)
- George Augustus Robinson
- William Thomas, (Assistant Protector) 1839-1849
- Edward Stone Parker, (Assistant Protector) Loddon and Northwest District, 1839–1849
Victoria
- William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in the counties of Bourke, Mornington and Evelyn
South Australia
- Matthew Moorhouse
- William Wyatt, 1837-
- Daisy Bates
- Edward John Eyre
Northern Territory (part of South Australia until 1911)
- Walter Baldwin Spencer
- Francis James Gillen, 1892-
- William Edward Harney, 1940 to 1947
- Xavier Herbert
- Cecil Cook^[3]^[4]^[5]
Queensland
- Walter Roth, 1898–1904,
- Archibald Meston, 1898 to 1903
- Patrick Killoran, 1963 to 1986
Western Australia
- A. O. Neville, see also the Moseley Royal Commission

References

^ Aplin, Graeme, S.G. Foster and Michael McKernan (eds), ed. (1987). Australians:Events and Places. Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates. pp. 47–8. ISBN 0-949288-13-6. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
^ http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/aboriginal-history-timeline-early-20th.html
^ Reports on actions of Dr Cecil Cook.
^ Dr Cook was the Chief Protector of Aborigines during the trial and appeal of Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda. The first Aboriginal Australian whose case was heard in the High Court (at the National Archives of Australia)
^ Hossain, Samia. “Norman Haire and Cecil Cook on Procedures of Sterilisation in the Inter-War Period.” In Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity, edited by Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey, and Katherine Ellinghaus, 454-63. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2007.

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[1] Aplin, Graeme, S.G. Foster and Michael McKernan (eds), ed. (1987). Australians:Events and Places. Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates. pp. 47–8. ISBN 0-949288-13-6. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)

[2] ttp://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/aboriginal-history-timeline-early-20th.html

[3] Reports on actions of Dr Cecil Cook.

[4] Dr Cook was the Chief Protector of Aborigines during the trial and appeal of Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda. The first Aboriginal Australian whose case was heard in the High Court (at the National Archives of Australia)

[5] Hossain, Samia. “Norman Haire and Cecil Cook on Procedures of Sterilisation in the Inter-War Period.” In Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity, edited by Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey, and Katherine Ellinghaus, 454-63. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2007.

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 The role of '''Protectors of Aborigines''' resulted from a recommendation of the report of the [[Select Committee (Westminster System)|Select Committee]] of the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] on [[Select Committee of the House of Commons on Aborigines (British Settlements)|Aborigines (British Settlements)]]. On 31 January 1838, [[Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg|Lord Glenelg]], [[Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]] sent [[George Gipps|Governor Gipps]] the report.
-The report recommended that Protectors of Aborigines should be engaged. They would be required to learn the [[Australian Aboriginal languages|Aboriginal language]] and their duties would be to watch over the rights of [[Indigenous Australians|Aborigines]], guard against encroachment on their property and to protect them from acts of cruelty, oppression and injustice. The [[Port Phillip Protectorate]] was established with [[George Augustus Robinson]] as chief protector and four full-time protectors.<ref>{{cite book | editor = Aplin, Graeme, S.G. Foster and Michael McKernan (eds) | title = Australians:Events and Places | year = 1987 | publisher = Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates | isbn = 0-949288-13-6|pages=47–8}}</ref>
+ahahahahaha The report recommended that Protectors of Aborigines should be engaged. They would be required to learn the [[Australian Aboriginal languages|Aboriginal language]] and their duties would be to watch over the rights of [[Indigenous Australians|Aborigines]], guard against encroachment on their property and to protect them from acts of cruelty, oppression and injustice. The [[Port Phillip Protectorate]] was established with [[George Augustus Robinson]] as chief protector and four full-time protectors.<ref>{{cite book | editor = Aplin, Graeme, S.G. Foster and Michael McKernan (eds) | title = Australians:Events and Places | year = 1987 | publisher = Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates | isbn = 0-949288-13-6|pages=47–8}}</ref>
 While the role was nominally to protect Aborigines, particularly in remote areas, it has been suggested that the role included social control up to the point of controlling whom individuals were able to marry and where they lived and managing their financial affairs.{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}}