Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines is established. The Governor can order the removal of any child to a reformatory or industrial school. The Protection Board can remove children from station families to be housed in dormitories. Later similar legislation is passed in other colonies: New South Wales (1883), Queensland (1897), Western Australia (1905) and South Australia (1911). The Northern Territory Aboriginals Ordinance makes the Chief Protector the legal guardian of every Aboriginal and ‘half caste’ person under 18. Boards are progressively empowered to remove children from their families.
Captain Daggett is tried for kidnapping Pacific Islanders for sugar and cotton plantations of Queensland but no conviction is recorded.
