Aboriginals Preservation and Protection Act Queensland 1939
1939 – In Queensland an additional Aboriginal Preservation and Protection Act is passed, maintaining most of the powers of the Chief Protector.
The laws exclude indigenous people from voting, restricts their movement and denies them any rights to their lands. The government could forbid them to marry, censor their mail, compel them to work for low wages, withhold their wages, seize their property, resettle them by force and remove their children.
