South Australia Nomenclature Act changes place names of German origin.

New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board is empowered to remove and apprentice Aboriginal children without a court hearing. This power is repealed in 1940, when

World War 1. Outbreak of war halts immigration. The war ends in 1918. Commonwealth War Precautions Act is passed, banning German immigration to Australia and enabling

Kingsley Fairbridge establishes the Child Emigration Society in England and a farm school in Western Australia for orphaned and underprivileged child migrants.

South Australian Aborigines Act makes the Chief Protector the legal guardian of every Aboriginal and ‘half-caste’ child under 21 with control over the child’s place of residence.

Victorian Aborigines Act extends powers of the Board for the Protection of Aborigines to ‘half-castes’ as well as ‘full blooded’ Aboriginal people. New South Wales devotes half

Systematic deportation of Pacific Islanders begins. Premiers’ Conference resolves to promote immigration through assisted passages. The last Macassan voyage to Australia takes place during the 1906 –

Western Australian Aborigines Act extends control over reserves and gives wide powers to the Chief Protector who is made the legal guardian of every Aboriginal and ‘half-caste’

Torres Strait Islanders become subject to the Queensland Aboriginal Protection Act.

Commonwealth Naturalisation Act acknowledges all naturalised British residents as subjects in the Commonwealth. Applicants from Asia, Africa or Pacific Islands (except New Zealand) are ineligible for

Policy of assimilation for migrants is introduced. Non-British migrants are accepted on the understanding that they should shed their cultures and languages and become indistinguishable

The Constitution denies citizenship, franchise and the right to military duty to Aboriginal People, Asians and Africans. Indigenous people are not included in any census

Federation of Australia is established.