- Parliament enacts an inhumane Act for the Protection & Management of the Victorian Aboriginals (the Mission Act). It restricts the rights of Aboriginal people to control where they lived & worked & whom they married. This is the beginning of legislation that produces the Stolen generations. It also forces Aborigines of fair complexion off reserves. Some reserves are broken up & land sold.
- Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines is established. The Governor can order the removal of any child to a reformatory or industrial school. The Protection Board can remove children from station families to be housed in dormitories.