Protection versus Assimilation Policies

Which Australian Government Policy was implemented first?

• Protection Policies

• Assimilation Policies

Which of the following is UNTRUE about Protection Policies?

• They were based on a belief that the policies were for the good of First Nations People

• They were aimed at separating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People from white Australians

• They took into account the Indigenous Australian connection to the land

How were Australia's First Nations Peoples viewed by settlers/invaders?

• Kind but vicious

• Primitive and less than human

• Antagonistic and educated

What was the job of an Aboriginal Protector?

• To protect First Nations Peoples from dangerous Australian animals

• To protect the European Australian population from First Nations Peoples

• To provide rations, protection and medicines and protect First Nations Australians from abuses

What was an Aboriginal Mission?

• An institution run by the church, often on land given by the government, to 'civilise" and teach about Christianity

• A long trek across central Australia

• An person tasked with providing protection to First Nations People

Children were taken from their parents to be schooled in European ways under which policy/ies?

• Protection

• Assimilation

• Both

Which policy separated First Nations Australians from white society by placing them on reserves or missions?

• Assimilation

• Protection

Which policy proposed the "full-blood" Aboriginal Australians should be allowed to die out naturally while "half-castes" be assimilated into wider Australian society?

• Protection

• Assimilation

When many First Nations People were forced to leave reserves under new Assimilation Policies, what was a key factor that prevented them from finding work?

• Racism

• Not enough jobs available

Who are the Stolen Generations?

• First Nations children who were removed from their parents

• Children who were denied rations under the Protection Policies

• Generations affected by frontier conflict