Introduction “The Aboriginal problem,” that is the phrase the white Australian government used to describe the Aboriginal people. The government considered the Aboriginal people as a group of people who could not, or had chosen not to live as they were required by the white people (Read 1981). The Australian government therefore used all mechanisms to ensure that it deterred the persistence of the Aborigines by using various forms of disguise to justify its actions. This paper evaluates the mechanisms used by the Australian government to ensure that it removed Aboriginal children from their families to ensure that they were assimilated into the mainstream white society. A significant point is that the government used various policies that barred parents from residing with their children on the pretext that that it would offer them better incentives, a perspective that was not well taken by the Aboriginal people. The use of child welfare policies According to Nobles (2008), the state authorities used child welfare policies as instruments of assimilating children into the dominant white society. Thus, the indigenous children were put in residential schools in which they were to be “educated” by school administrators. The fact that the children stayed away from their parents means that their links with their families would be cut gradually (Nobles 2008).The government even removed the children from their parents forcibly, promising to offer better care than that offered by the parents. To justify this, the government used child welfare policies by charging Aboriginal parents for parental negligence if they refused to comply with the requirement to have their children taken by the authorities (Nobles 2008). The Australian child welfare policy of the twentieth century ensured that all children were brought up based on the stipulations of the government (Read 1981). Thus, it was illegal, for instance, to raise children with indigenous values (Read 1981). Parents were therefore required to ensure that their children fitted into the society by staying away from their native families. The government also required Aboriginal children to live with whites where they would work as servants (Gellately & Kiernan 2003). The government also promised that it would help improve the living standards of the indigenous children. Specific child laws One of the powers used by the Australian government to facilitate removal of children from their parents was Aborigines Protection Act of 1909. The government had built a girls’ dormitory at the Warangesda Aboriginal Station and allowed to parents who send their daughters to stay in the dormitories to also live at the station (Read 1981). The justification here was that the girls would be taught how to became domestic servants and therefore be able to earn their own money. Yet in essence, it was just a ploy to ensure that the girls stayed away from their parents. The Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act to threaten those parents who did not allow their daughters to live in the dormitories, but those who consented were given free rail passes (Anderson & Grossman 2003). In this context therefore, the government used its set of biased policies to ensure that Aboriginal children were removed from their parents. After all, the parents had no right to complain since the actions by the government