The Australian Association for the Protection of Aborigines

The Australian Association for the Protection of Aborigines is founded, wanting to restore land to Koori people, to prevent the increasing removal of Koori children from their families, and to abolish the Aborigines Protection Board. This follows a more active role of Board officers and police in child removal (see entries for 1917, 1920, 1923). They form an alliance with a sympathetic white woman, Elizabeth McKenzie-Hatton, also known as "Mrs Mac" amongst the local Kooris. The group buys a house in Homebush as a hostel for Aboriginal girls who are ‘incorrigible’ that is, those who have run away or defied their employers. (Maynard 2008, pp. 44-5)

  • Pearl Gibbs