Abstract
The historiography on Aboriginal sport history has grown significantly over the last four decades, but there is little scholarship on the Protection Era, and particularly on the role of sport in missions and settlements. This article examines the impact of the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act (1897) on sporting opportunities in Queensland for Aboriginal people. The Act curtailed inter-racial sport, but within the confines of missions and settlements, government officials wholeheartedly endorsed sporting activities. This article explores the gendered and racialised ideological work performed by sport in Aboriginal institutions through the public and private transcripts of the colonised and the colonisers.
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