Topics: Events: North West

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1911 - view

Annie and George are painted there by artist Herbert Beecroft

1913 - 1927 - view

Aboriginal people are forcibly removed by police from farms they had successfully settled, cultivated, maintained and independently farmed

1914 - view

500 Aboriginal people enlist in the armed forces

1915 - view

Annie Markim (nee Barber) makes a carrying basket from bulrushes found near Sackville Reserve

1915 - view

Ephraim Everingham dies and is buried at the Aboriginal burial ground, Sackville

1915 - view

AIM employs Aboriginal assistants to AIM missionaries

1918 - view

Aborigines become subject to the absolute control of the manager. A large number are expelled for not adhering to strict regulations

1918 - 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

1922 - view

AIM purchases a motor bike to visit more Aboriginal camps

1922 - view

J J Maloney pens editorials to mobilise authorities to save Aboriginal people

1923 - view

They look at Gooris as a cheap form of labour

1923 - view

St Clair Mission is closed off to Aboriginal people completely

1923 - 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 - 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 - view

Aboriginal children are taught farm labour and domestic work. Many end up as servants in the houses of wealthy city residents

1923 - view

forced to relocate due to commercial interests in their land, especially the timber industry

1924 - view

Aborigines voice their disapproval through street rallies, meetings and conferences, the media, letters and petitions to government and the King about injustice and inequality

1924 - view

Maynard’s capacity to inspire an audience alarms the authorities and he is denied the right to speak on Aboriginal reserves. The APB seeks to stop Aboriginal protest by silencing the AAPA

1924 - view

Native Ministry . It recruits 12 men and women, old and young, who show aptness for spiritual leadership among their people

1924 - view

AIM classes these “native workers” into four offices: pastors, missionaries, local assistants and deacons and deaconesses