Repaying the trust : a history of the operation and outcomes of the NSW Aboriginal trust fund repayment scheme 2005 to 2011

Hoey, Marilyn Anne

Repaying the trust : a history of the operation and outcomes of the NSW Aboriginal trust fund repayment scheme 2005 to 2011

Hoey, Marilyn Anne

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dc.contributor.author	Hoey, Marilyn Anne
dc.date.accessioned	2017-11-16T00:45:47Z
dc.date.available	2017-11-16T00:45:47Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/120198
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.	en_AU
dc.description.abstract	This thesis poses the question: using the NSW Aboriginal Trust Fund Repayment Scheme (ATFRS), as a case study, has the NSW Government addressed the issues of human rights abuses of past government policies affecting the Indigenous people of New South Wales? It outlines the story of the ATFRS, its objectives, challenges, achievements and failures and draws on the researcher’s experiences as the Director of the Scheme from 2004 to 2011. It also uses the archival records of the Aborigines Protection and Welfare Boards, and semi structured interviews with others involved in the work of the Scheme, along with Indigenous claimants. It shows that there is extensive academic research on many of the issues relevant to the work of the ATFRS such as the ‘Stolen Generation’, stolen or underpaid wages, misappropriated welfare endowment payments and monies missing from Trust Fund accounts managed by the various protection boards. It also concludes that the wide ranging modern understanding and application of human rights and reparations theories can be applied in considering the work of the ATFRS. There remains, however, a gap both in the literature and from government sources on the operations or outcomes of the Scheme after it completed its work in 2011. The thesis concludes that within the legal and political framework set by the NSW Government, the ATFRS did successfully meet many of the elements of international human rights reparations. But in determining that the Scheme could only make repayments to individuals who could prove they were owed money from their Aboriginal Trust Fund accounts, the NSW Government failed to properly address the broader need for just reparations on a collective basis for the historical wrongdoings between the State and the Indigenous people of NSW.	en_AU
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dc.title	Repaying the trust : a history of the operation and outcomes of the NSW Aboriginal trust fund repayment scheme 2005 to 2011	en_AU
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This thesis poses the question: using the NSW Aboriginal Trust Fund Repayment Scheme (ATFRS), as a case study, has the NSW Government addressed the issues of human rights abuses of past government policies affecting the Indigenous people of New South Wales? It outlines the story of the ATFRS, its objectives, challenges, achievements and failures and draws on the researcher’s experiences as the Director of the Scheme from 2004 to 2011. It also uses the archival records of the Aborigines Protection and Welfare Boards, and semi structured interviews with others involved in the work of the Scheme, along with Indigenous claimants. It shows that there is extensive academic research on many of the issues relevant to the work of the ATFRS such as the ‘Stolen Generation’, stolen or underpaid wages, misappropriated welfare endowment payments and monies missing from Trust Fund accounts managed by the various protection boards. It also concludes that the wide ranging modern understanding and application of human rights and reparations theories can be applied in considering the work of the ATFRS. There remains, however, a gap both in the literature and from government sources on the operations or outcomes of the Scheme after it completed its work in 2011. The thesis concludes that within the legal and political framework set by the NSW Government, the ATFRS did successfully meet many of the elements of international human rights reparations. But in determining that the Scheme could only make repayments to individuals who could prove they were owed money from their Aboriginal Trust Fund accounts, the NSW Government failed to properly address the broader need for just reparations on a collective basis for the historical wrongdoings between the State and the Indigenous people of NSW.

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