Popular account of Indigenous affairs; policies of the Governors and the British Parliament; conflict with pastoralists; protection policy; missions; founding of the Commonwealth of Australia; Bleakley report and the conference on Aboriginal affairs of 1929, and its impact on welfare legislation passed in the 1930s; effects of World War 1 on policy; formal recognition of Aborigines by the Commonwealth in 1948 through the Nationality and Citizenship Act, when Aborgines were declared British subjects and Australian citizens; Paul Hasluck as Minister for Territories; 1961 state and federal ministers' conference on Aboriginal affairs; 1967 referendum and the attitudes of politician's of the time to Aboriginal affairs; policy of self-determination; land rights; Aboriginal affairs in Queensland during Whitlam and Fraser years; Noonkenbah; rise of the 'black bureaucracy'; 'Foundations for the Future' policy of the bicentennial year, which included social justice policy and the creation of ATSIC; Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody; Mabo decision in 1992; race relations
Analysis
Aborigines
History
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320) and index
