Aboriginal Trust Fund Repayment Scheme
From the late 1890s up until 1969, the Aborigines Protection Board and later the Aborigines Welfare Board collected monies from some Aboriginal people who came under their control and put this money into Trust Accounts for them. These were accounts that the Boards controlled; they determined how much of an apprentices wages or child endowment should be deposited and how much money could be withdrawn.
The Aboriginal Trust Fund Repayment Scheme (the ATFRS for short) is a NSW Government initiative which was announced in December 2004, and established in 2005 to repay to Aboriginal people and their descendants money that was put into Trust Funds and never repaid.
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