evidence: Aborigines were kept behind fences as if they were wild animals. This kind of segregation was meant to ensure that nobody got in or out. Aside from this intense kind of segregation, the British policies were centered on assimilating the native people to English ways. Tatz points that "Under the Victorian Aborigines Protection Act 1886 aid was restricted to full-bloods and half-castes over the age of 34. All others, regardless of their marital or sibling status, were forcibly expelled from missions and reserves. Children were not exempt. They faced relocation to white foster parents, white adoptive parents and half-caste or assimilation homes."