The name is absent

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ʒ) that such legislation and policy promote negative typifications,

4) that the boundary constructed for Aboriginal society, within
which Aboriginal people find identity, is a boundary from
without, imposed not by Aborigines themselves, but by the
dominant society and,

5) that a particular manifestation of such a boundary from without
is found in naming.

In the following section there will be an examination of:

Government legislation up to 1967 (the year of the Referendum
on Aborigines)

2. Government policy/theorizing with reference to nihilation
and therapy as conceptual machinery for the purpose of control
up to 1973, the year of the advent of the Labor party into
power

3. The implications of this legislation and policy for Aboriginal
identity.

The policies for identification∕naming before the Referendum
and their implications for identity will be examined in Chapter
IX. Contemporary legislation, policy and practice will be examined
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in Chapter XI.

Two important areas of legislation which affected the lives
of Aborigines are Land Acts and Social Legislation.

8.31 Land Acts

Gale (1964, 1972); Rowley (1971); Jenkin (1979) discuss
in detail legislation that deprived Aboriginal people of their
land:    Foundation Act of 1834; Waste Land Act (British

Parliament), 1842; Waste Lands Act (South Australian Legislature),
1937; Pastoral Act, 1936-1969.

Apart from the injustice perpetrated, the Acts had two results
one was that, in depriving the people of their land they were
deprived also of the means of gaining food. They were made

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