Please read that wiki, "They became the model for legislation to control Aboriginal people throughout Australia". Weird it doesn't state it was used to control white people but states clearly it was used to control Aboriginal people. To theoretically provide them with better homes, where they could grow up to work as domestic servants. You're right again though it is well documented as you clearly provided they found heritage important
Half-Caste Act was the common name given to Acts of Parliament passed in Victoria (Aboriginal Protection Act 1886) and Western Australia (Aborigines Protection Act 1886) in 1886.[1]
They became the model for legislation to control Aboriginal people throughout Australia - Queensland's Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897,[2] NSW/ACT's Aboriginal Protection Act 1909, the Northern Territory Aboriginals Act 1910, South Australia's Aborigines Act 1911, and Tasmania's Cape Barren Island Reserve Act 1912.The various related Acts allowed the seizure of "half-caste" children (i.e., mixed race children[3]) and their forcible removal from their parents. This was theoretically to provide them with better homes than those afforded by typical Aboriginal people, where they could grow up to work as domestic servants, and also for social engineering.[4][5][6] "Half-caste" people were distinguished from "full-blood" Aboriginal people.[7]
