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Aboriginal stations, also known as "managed reserves" or "managed stations" in New South Wales, were government controlled areas of land. Like the reserves, stations were portions of land that were set aside by the New South Wales Department of Lands, from the 1860s until World War I, for the use of Aboriginal people.Some of the earliest stations were former missions, including Warangesda, Brewarrina and Cummeragunja. The managed stations in New South Wales included Purfleet, Karuah and Murrin Bridge near Lake Cargellico.

An Aboriginal station was a large reserve that was managed by a teacher-manager who lived on the station together with his wife. Stations usually contained a school and a clinic, and served as a depot for the allocation of supplies including blankets and rations. Aboriginal people who lived on these stations were provided with education, rations and housing. The stations were established and managed by the Aboriginal Protection Board from 1883 onwards. Station managers controlled who was allowed to live on a station and people were often forcibly moved.

Aborigines Protection Board (1883 - 1940)
Regulations for the Management of Aboriginal Stations Cumeroogunga, Warangesda and Brewarrina were drafted by the Board for the Protection of Aborigines, approved by the Colonial Secretary and issued on 1 February 1895. The Aborigines Protection Act in 1909 established the Aborigines Protection Board to be responsible for administering Aboriginal stations and reserves throughout New South Wales and defined Aborigines as "people of the full descent and persons having an 'admixture of Aboriginal blood' who were in receipt of government rations or who resided on a reserve". Only people who met this definition were allowed to live on the stations. The law also made the Board and for providing food, clothing and housing for the people living there.

Aborigines Welfare Directorate (1969 - 1975)
Managed stations in New South Wales


 * Brewarrina Aboriginal Station established in 1886, 16 kilometres from Brewarrina, includes the Brewarrina Aboriginal Station Dormitory a dormitory for Aboriginal girls that was attached to the manager's house. Until 1940 Aboriginal girls aged 14-18 years were sent there for 'training' and discipline under the removal and apprenticeship policies of the Aborigines Protection Board.
 * Brungle near Tumut
 * Cumeroogunga
 * Karuah
 * Murrin Bridge (near Lake Cargellico)
 * Purfleet
 * Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Station
 * Warangesda on the Murrumbidgee River