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1883 - South Coastal - view
Aborigines Protection Board is established
1883 - South Coastal - view
Aborigines Welfare Board to provide boats
1883 - North West - view
Under the influence of the Aborigines Protection Association from 1880, small reserves are declared where Aborigines might camp if they choose and police are responsible for the government contact
1883 - North West - view
It recommends a Bill, the first proposal put to government is: “the custody and control of [A]borigines of all ages and sexes…in like manner as a parent has the right to the control of his children of tender years”
1884 - North West - view
Thomas Morley [is] charged by the Police with an infraction of the Vagrant Act, by being in a camp of Aborigines, at Portland Head
1887 - North West - view
Mathews completes a record of their language which they call Darkin-nyoong then spelt as Darkinung
1887 - North West - view
Annie (“Grannie Barber) is one of the subjects for the portraits drawn by artist Herbert Beecroft at “The Aborigines camp at La Perouse”
1888 - North West - view
8290 blankets are distributed throughout NSW to the Aborigines. Windsor Courthouse was distribution centre for Hawkesbury region
1888 - North West - view
Many of mixed-descent at this time kept their Aboriginality a family secret
1889 - South Coastal - view
formally reserved
1889 - North West - view
The Hawkesbury camp becomes the Sackville Reserve
1889 - North West - view
An Aboriginal Reserve is declared at Sackville Ridge (Portland Head)
1889 - North West - view
Ab Res gazetted 23958
1889 - North West - view
Reserve 23957 gazetted
1889 - North West - view
A third part is added to the Sackville Reserve: No. 28546
1889 - North West - view
70 inferior government blankets are doled out at Windsor
1890 - South Coastal - view
Koories sign a petition