Rabbit-proof Fence

History

• European Arrival

• British Settlement
  • Gold Rush

• Various Massacres
  • Myall Creek Massacre
  • Battle Mountain
  • Massacre at Coniston

Terminology

• Half Castes

• Stolen Generation

• Full blood (aborigines/white)

• White Status (advancement)

• Bred out/Die out

• Concept of "Helping the Native"

• Providing "Protection"

• 'crossbreeds', 'quadroons' and 'octoroons'

Methods of "Breeding out"

• 1869-1969 (time period)

• Forced Sexual intercourse by White men on Aborigine Women
  • Continuity can "breed out" the Aborigine blood

• Child removal (Aboriginal Protection Act 1869)
  • "forcible removal",
  • "removal under threat or duress",
  • "official deception",
  • "uninformed voluntary release", and
  • "voluntary release".

• Half castes institutions
  • Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia,
  • Doomadgee Aboriginal Mission in Queensland,
  • Ebenezer Mission in Victoria and
  • Wellington Valley Mission in New South Wales.