Aboriginal Australia -- The Black Workforce -- Mackay and the Melanesians -- 'Eating with the Chows'-The Chinese in Far North Queensland -- Thursday Island-A Multi-racial Gibraltar -- Darwin and the Chinese Territorians -- Broome-An 'Ethnological Museum' -- The Confronting North -- Unity of Race -- White Australia-Its Victims and Critics
Summary
Leading Australian historian Henry Reynolds brings to life the country's diverse and thriving far North in the last years of the 19th century - and the changes that were wrought there by a new national government obsessed with 'racial purity'. A major work; densely illustrated and thoroughly researched