Topics: Government policy: West

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Aboriginal elders from around NSW came together to fight a proposal by the Greiner government, which would have removed services specific to Aboriginal people

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four girls who were taken away

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Marella Boys Home where he was taken at the age of 4.

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Dennis himself was later taken to Minda home when his father became ill and his mother fell behind on the rent. The police came to his school to get him - a regular occurrence for Aboriginal children in Chester Hill North

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chose to marry the father of the baby rather than lose her child.

1805 - view

orders that the settlers be required to assist each other in repelling visits and if any settler harbours natives he will be prosecuted for a breach of the Public Order

1806 - view

presented with a plaque ‘King of Mount Tomah’

1810 - view

Aboriginal tracker

1815 - view

Native Institution

1816 - view

grants of land and seed

1816 - view

Macquarie grants land

1816 - view

‘my Order of Merit'

1816 - view

proclamation

1821 - view

broken down Aboriginal hostility with a combination of military attacks and humane treatment and compensated dispossessed Aborigines with land grants

1824 - view

Government Institution

1824 - view

The government will give me twenty pounds per annum per child

1825 - view

10,000 acres of land [about 7000 ha.] situated in the said colony be reserved for the use of the Aborigines

1828 - view

census

1831 - view

land grant

1833 - view

Liverpool land, also granted by Governor Lachlan Macquarie