'A better chance'?: sexual abuse and the apprenticeship of Aboriginal girls under the NSW Aborigines Protection Board

Title: 'A better chance'?: sexual abuse and the apprenticeship of Aboriginal girls under the NSW Aborigines Protection Board
Creator: Haskins, Victoria
Relation: Aboriginal History Vol. 28, Issue 1, p. 33-58
Relation: http://www.aboriginalhistory.org/journalcontents.html#28
Publisher: ANU
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2004
Description: Between the two World Wars in New South Wales, under the administration of the Aborigines Protection Board, Aboriginal girls and young women were taken from their families to be placed as indentured domestic workers in white household under a so-called apprenticeship scheme. This article examines this policy, for an apparent paradox emerges. Despite a rhetoric of protection, of giving Aboriginal girls ‘a better chance’ than they would otherwise have had if they remained with their communities, the records reveal an usually high illegitimate birth rate to girls in apprenticeships, while close examination shows the authorities made no effort to stem what amounted to a pattern of sexual exploitation of these young Aboriginal servants.
Subject: Aboriginal children; sexual abuse; Aboriginal women; domestic labour; New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board; apprentices
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803164
Identifier: uon:6323
Identifier: ISSN:0314-8769
Language: eng
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