Department of Aboriginal Affairs (Western Australia)

Not to be confused with the Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs

The Department of Aboriginal Affairs (Western Australia) is the current government authority that is involved with the matters of the Aboriginal population of Western Australia.

Prior to the creation of the Aborigines Department in 1898, there had been an Aborigines Protection Board.^[1]

The department took its current name in May 2013.^[2][3][4]

Preceding Agencies

• Aborigines Department - 1 Apr 1898 ~ 31 Dec 1908^[5][6]
• Department of Aborigines and Fisheries - 1 Jan 1909 ~ 1 Jan 1920^[7][8]
• Aborigines Department - 1 Jan 1926 ~ 1 Jan 1936
• Department of the North West - 1 Jan 1920 ~ 1 Jan 1926
• Fisheries Department - 1 Jan 1920 ~ 1 Sep 1964
• Department of Native Affairs - 1 Jan 1936 ~ 31 Dec 1954^[9]
• Department of Native Welfare - 1 Jan 1955 ~ 16 Jun 1972^[10]
• Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority - 16 Jun 1972 ~ 31 Oct 1994^[11]
• Aboriginal Affairs Department - 1 Nov 1994 ~ 30 Jun 2001^[12]
• Department of Indigenous Affairs - 1 Jul 2001 ~ 16 May 2013^[13]

See also

• Protector of Aborigines

Notes

1. Western Australia. Aborigines Department (1897), Correspondence relating to the proposed abolition of the Aborigines Protection Board of Western Australia, HMSO, retrieved 3 April 2016
2. SRO 'Agency details
3. Western Australia. Department of Aboriginal Affairs (2013) (2013), Annual report, East Perth, Western Australia Department of Aboriginal Affairs, ISSN 1441-6409
4. "Department changes from Indigenous to Aboriginal". ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 11 April 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
5. First agency with the name, name resurrected in 1926
6. State Records Office of Western Australia (2007), Public Records Office of Western Australia Aborigines Department File 1898-1908, State Records Office of WA, retrieved 4 April 2016
7. Combination of the Fisheries and Aborigines portfolios occurred in various forms and arrangements through to the 1960s
8. "ABORIGINES AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT.". Western Mail. XXVI, (1,323) (Western Australia). 6 May 1911. p. 34. Retrieved 4 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
9. Western Australia. Department of Native Affairs (1937), Annual report of the Commissioner of Native Affairs for the year ended 30th June, Government Printer, retrieved 3 April 2016
10. Western Australia. Department of Native Welfare (1964), Functions and activities : Department of Native Welfare, Western Australia, Commissioner of Native Welfare, retrieved 3 April 2016
11. "State Aboriginal affairs to be taken over". The Canberra Times 47, (13,439) (Australian Capital Territory, Australia). 19 May 1973. p. 8. Retrieved 3 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
12. Western Australia. Aboriginal Affairs Department (1995), Annual report of the Aboriginal Affairs Department for the period, The Dept, ISSN 1441-6409
13. Western Australia. Department of Indigenous Affairs (2002), Annual report, Dept. of Indigenous Affairs, retrieved 4 April 2016