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1915 - West - view
Act also abolishes the minimum age at which Indigenous children can be apprenticed
1918 - North West - view
Aborigines become subject to the absolute control of the manager. A large number are expelled for not adhering to strict regulations
1918 - North West - view
At his time, strict rules were introduced by Manager of the Mission and many people were removed from Mount Olive for not following the strictly imposed rules
1920 - South West - view
loss of their traditional sources of employment
1922 - North West - view
AIM purchases a motor bike to visit more Aboriginal camps
1922 - North West - view
J J Maloney pens editorials to mobilise authorities to save Aboriginal people
1923 - North West - view
St Clair Mission is closed off to Aboriginal people completely
1923 - North West - view
Others establish a tin shanty town on the Singleton Common (the Redbourneberry Hill camp) until Housing Commission Houses are built many years later
1923 - North West - view
The loss of St Clair and its impact on peoples’ lives becomes one catalyst that helps trigger Aboriginal political mobilisation and revolt during the 1920's
1923 - North West - view
Aboriginal children are taught farm labour and domestic work. Many end up as servants in the houses of wealthy city residents
1923 - North West - view
forced to relocate due to commercial interests in their land, especially the timber industry
1923 - North West - view
They look at Gooris as a cheap form of labour
1924 - North West - view
Native Ministry . It recruits 12 men and women, old and young, who show aptness for spiritual leadership among their people
1924 - North West - view
AIM classes these “native workers” into four offices: pastors, missionaries, local assistants and deacons and deaconesses
1924 - North West - view
Aboriginal activism. Some AIM recruits use ministry training and church networks to link with others and mobilise to protest social issues
1924 - North West - view
Australian Aborigines Progressive Association (AAPA) is formed. It hosts its first conference in Sydney during 1925 and attracts widespread media attention and a large crowd