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1909 - West - view

barred from employment by the Post Office

1909 - West - view

full control and custody of Indigenous children

1909 - North West - view

closing of reserves and the taking away of children from Aboriginal parents in order to bring them up in institutions such as Cootamundra Girls’ Home and Kinchela Boys’ Home

1909 - North West - view

The APB administers government policy, dictates where Aboriginal people can live and work, their freedom of movement, their personal finances and their child rearing practices

1909 - North West - view

The Singleton Home takes in boys as well as girls. These children are removed from their communities on the basis of racial criteria (lighter skinned children are most usually taken)

1909 - North West - view

Frederick (Yeri) Barber is an accomplished singer and sings solo at the annual Australian Aborigines Conference

1909 - North West - view

Selling of Sackville Reserve

1910 - North West - view

first Aboriginal helper to trial as a missionary

1910 - West - view

He is an accomplished singer and sings solo

1910 - West - view

Church services cease

1911 - North West - view

AIM establishes a Prayer Band in Karuah. They crown an Aboriginal woman as the Queen of Karuah

1911 - North West - view

William Jonas of Karuah River rides his mount at King George V’s coronation in London

1911 - North West - view

Annie and George are painted there by artist Herbert Beecroft

1913 - 1927 - North West - view

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

1914 - North West - view

500 Aboriginal people enlist in the armed forces

1914 - South West - view

When a battle was to take place fighting men would be gathered from the main tribe and all the sub tribes, and, all would combine together

1915 - North West - view

AIM employs Aboriginal assistants to AIM missionaries

1915 - North West - view

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

1915 - North West - view

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

1915 - West - view

excludes Indigenous Australians from receiving maternity allowance