Protecting the Children: Early Years of the King’s Orphan Schools in Van Diemen’s Land
In the second decade of the 21st century, the Australian government has encountered a barrage of criticism from people outraged by its treatment of refugees. The Immigration Minister, accused of failing in his obligation to act as guardian of asylum-seeking children, has talked ‘tough’. Nearly two h...
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| description | In the second decade of the 21st century, the Australian government has encountered a barrage of criticism from people outraged by its treatment of refugees. The Immigration Minister, accused of failing in his obligation to act as guardian of asylum-seeking children, has talked ‘tough’. Nearly two hundred years earlier, when Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur confronted the problems of administering Australia’s second colony, Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania), his approach was radically different. This paper considers how the colony under Arthur struggled with the government’s responsibility to protect vulnerable children in its midst. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6d1b480d1cd44758aae9998c5d2ff1f52022-12-21T23:27:00ZengUniversitat de BarcelonaCoolabah1988-59462013-01-01108810010.1344/co20131088-100Protecting the Children: Early Years of the King’s Orphan Schools in Van Diemen’s LandLucy Frost0University of TasmaniaIn the second decade of the 21st century, the Australian government has encountered a barrage of criticism from people outraged by its treatment of refugees. The Immigration Minister, accused of failing in his obligation to act as guardian of asylum-seeking children, has talked ‘tough’. Nearly two hundred years earlier, when Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur confronted the problems of administering Australia’s second colony, Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania), his approach was radically different. This paper considers how the colony under Arthur struggled with the government’s responsibility to protect vulnerable children in its midst.http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15612/18737Orphan Schoolsfemale convictsColonial Australia |
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| title | Protecting the Children: Early Years of the King’s Orphan Schools in Van Diemen’s Land |
| title_full | Protecting the Children: Early Years of the King’s Orphan Schools in Van Diemen’s Land |
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| title_short | Protecting the Children: Early Years of the King’s Orphan Schools in Van Diemen’s Land |
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| topic | Orphan Schools female convicts Colonial Australia |
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