The Aborigines Protection Amending Act of 1915

B) Argue against the Protection Act

I have chosen to argue question B, because I am against The Protection Act.
The protection act was passed in 1897, where the chief protector, who was in charges and their guarding, he was allowed to remove children from their families. In 1971 the Aboriginal Protection Act stopped. The act gave the power to remove any child without any court order nor parental consent. The act provided full control, and therefore the Aborigines would lose their freedom. The government removed Aboriginal children from their families and where starting the process that created the Stolen Generation, also known as the Stolen Children.

The article The Stolen Generation states that; “1 in 10 of all Aboriginal children were removed from their families in an effort to civilize them by assimilation into white society”, this entire quote is mindboggling because the word “civilize” is used derogatory as if Aborigines need taming like a wild animal. The mere fact that the government believes that the Aborigines so desperate need help makes them conceited. They were taken children from their families, and making them white because they though that it would improve their lives. Through a misguided attempt at helping the Aborigines, the government may have caused more damage than good. The whites thought that the Aborigines needed help to survive and that is just unreasonable because the Aborigines have been in Australia long before the British came. They have lived in Australia for more than 50,000 years before white settlement and did fine living on their own.

The Board for the Protection of Aborigines also tried to purify them by attempting to make them white by making his hair straight; “His minders tried to force his hair straight, breaking comb teeth in his frizzy curls. It was a vain attempt by