 "In the name of protection", suggest the authors of the 1997 "Bringing Them Home" report, "Indigenous people were subject to near-total control".The forcible removal of children from their families led to what became known as the Stolen Generations.Before the "Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897", various religious organisations had established a number of mission stations, and the Colony of Queensland government had gazetted small areas as reserves for Aboriginal people to use.