He noted the concern of women's organisations and admitted that in many cases, especially in large communities, the service of women protectors would be beneficial. Thus, the protection of Aboriginal women from seduction and disease was considered secondary to the protection and security of the white women who would have been employed to deal with the situation. In both assimilationist and protectionist periods, two practices are apparent, although with a different policy motive in each period. A gender focus was the result of both periods. Primarily, it was girls that were removed.
Authority suggests that, generally, the appropriate descent group is a patrilineal one.
The tests which the Act creates are more difficult for someone removed from family and country to fulfil. In effect, the Land Rights Act is itself a continuation of the old assimilationist policies. The criteria that were used to assess susceptibility to removal are not used in the Act. Rather, selected Aboriginal people were removed. These selected removals, while affecting all people within a community in some way, will have had differing particular effects depending upon whether a person was themselves removed or stayed as part of the remanent community.