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“It is an act of national immaturity to concentrate on that which is comforting in our history at the expense of that which is instructive.” – Crotty & Roberts.
This platform endeavours to understand the effects of early twentieth-century policy. This historical representation does not purport to reflect the extent of historical and ongoing impacts on Aboriginal persons.
The Perth Prohibited Area (PPA) epitomised the paternalistic attitudes of early colonial Western Australian resulting in a discriminatory legal apparatus which (in)directly shaped Aboriginal livelihoods.
Perth Prohibited Area 