Separated: Australian aboriginal childhood separations and guardianship law / Antonio De Paulo Buti.

Sydney : Institute of Criminology Press, 2004.

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Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Aboriginal Australians -- History.

1. Introduction

2. The law of guardianship and best interest of the child principle

3. The separation history: a national overview

4. Western Australia - a case study: separation, segregation and absorption, 1900-1945

5. Western Australia - a case study: assimilation and mainstreaming, 1946-1972

6. Implications of the history and where to now?

7. Conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0975196723

v, 233 p.