| Description |
ix, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Appendix 1: Test to be applied in considering whether or not a part Aboriginal child should be taken from an Aboriginal mother on a settlement or pastoral property (25th August 1959) -- Appendix 2: Assistant Director of Welfare (through the Administrative Officer (general)): part coloured children: Wave Hill |
| Summary |
"Discharged from National Service in the navy in the 1950s, the young Colin Macleod was bored witless as a clerk. He sought adventure as a patrol officer in the Northern Territory. From Hermannsburg, Narwietooma and the Pintubi people to Wave Hill and the Gorinji people to Bathurst Island and the Tiwi people, patrol officer Macleod did the best that he could for the dispossessed indigenous peoples. He experienced it all at first hand, the squalor of the Blacks' camps on the fringes of the big cattle stations, the limbo status of the Yellafellas, the Myalls, the prosecution of Whites who flogged Blacks, the sexual exploitation of part-Aboriginal children now known as 'the stolen generation'. This is not a book by some southern academic theorist. It is a first hand report of a young worker in the field. It is always confronting, sometimes funny and sometimes shocking. This is a must read for every Australian with a conscience. It doesn't ask us to feel guilty. It asks us to help find a better way."--Publisher |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Northern Territory - Government relations |
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Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Northern Territory - Social conditions |
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Aborigines |
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Biography |
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Federal issue |
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History, 1946-1969 |
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Law enforcement |
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Macleod, Colin, 1934- |
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Northern Territory |
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Northern Territory - History - 20th century |
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Peace officers - Australia - Northern Territory - Biography |
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Social conditions |
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Welfare measures |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includses index |
| Subject |
Macleod, Colin, 1934-
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Macleod, Colin.
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Northern Territory. Welfare Branch Patrol
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Government relations.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Social conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
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Law enforcement -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography.
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Peace officers -- NORTHERN TERRITORY -- Biography
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Peace officers -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography.
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| SUBJECT |
Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1945-1965
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Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006165
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| LC no. |
97194475 |
| ISBN |
1863305483 |
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