... . In exchange for food, shelter and a little education, aborigines were subjected to the discipline of police and reserve managers. They had to follow the rules of the reserve and tolerate searchers of their homes and themselves. Their children could be taken away at any time and "apprenticed" out as cheap labour for Europeans. "The old ways of the Aborigines were attacked by regimented efforts to make them European" . Their identities ... many Aboriginal men, especially unemployed, slipped into aimlessness" . Traditionally the male role within the family was that of hunter and gatherer...

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