Part 1 Yarrabah

Explore life under the protection act including marriage, removal, absconding and employment.

Other topics include:

• the removal of the Fraser Island people to Yarrabah,
• the bomb at King Beach that killed five people in 1944,
• observations of starvation and poor education by Anthropologist Norman Tindale in 1938, and
• the strike of 1957 that resulted in many people being evicted from the mission.

Personal and factual experiences of Aboriginal people who lived under the Act.

• Henry Lawrence a good worker who didn’t drink or smoke, worked at a lower rate of pay for ten years. When he tried to get an exemption the excuse that he ‘gave away’ his pocket money was used to deny him his freedom.
• Very well ‘clothed and clean’ Harry Mossman was charged as a neglected child and sentenced to seven years at Yarrabah. After serving 19 he applied for an exemption but it was another 25 before he was free.