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{"title":"Defining Disease, Segregating Race: Sir Raphael Cilento, Aboriginal Health and Leprosy Management in Twentieth Century Queensland","authors":"Meg Parsons","doi":"10.22459/AH.34.2011.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.34.2011.04","url":null,"abstract":"The history of different leprosy management strategies in Queensland and the role of Sir Raphael Cilento in Aboriginal health and leprosy management in twentieth century Queensland are discussed. The establishment and operations of the Aboriginal only leprosarium on Fantome Island is highlighted.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"10 1","pages":"85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78890821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'A Solemn Judicial Farce, the Mere Mockery of a Trial': The Acquittal of Lieutenant Lowe, 1827","authors":"K. Chaves","doi":"10.22459/AH.31.2011.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.31.2011.08","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the political, colonial and social environment in the period leading up to the Supreme Court trial of Lieutenant Nathaniel Lowe for the murder of Jacky Jacky in 1827. Whites had been tried for the murder of Aborigines prior to Lowe, but, unlike other cases, Lowe and possibly the magistrates at Wallis' Plains tried in vain to cover up the murder of the Aboriginal man. Chief Justice Francis Forbes, along with Governor Ralph Darling and the Executive Council, continued to investigate the matter until Lowe's indictment for the murder. This demand for justice for the dead indigene marked the disparity between the legal ideals of British officials and the actual treatment of Aborigines by settlers. While the legal powers in the colony began to view Aborigines as provisional British subjects, colonists viewed the indigenes as a hapless race subject to no legal protection. R v. Lowe helped to define the legal status of the Aborigines and raised questions about the extent of British sovereignty over the territory of New South Wales.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"131 1","pages":"122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78976389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Murder and 'the Execution of the Law' on the Nullarbor","authors":"Peter Gifford","doi":"10.22459/AH.18.2011.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.18.2011.10","url":null,"abstract":"Truslove had been sent to the Eucla district, on the southern fringes of the Nullarbor plain, to distribute and collect papers for the census of 1881. While there (but not, apparently, as a first priority), he was to investigate claims that William Stuart McGill and his partners Thomas and William Kennedy had been mistreating 'natives' on their Mondra Bellae (now Mundrabilla) sheep run, 100 kilometres west of the Eucla Overland Telegraph station. Truslove's report effectively accused McGill and the Kennedys of multiple murder. Its contents were mostly hearsay, which then as now was not admissible in a court of law. Yet as an experienced police officer he must have been aware of the gravity of such allegations, which would be seen at high governmental levels, and he cannot therefore have made them lightly. As will be seen, they were supported overwhelmingly by statements from the Overland Telegraph stationmasters at Eyre's Sandpatch and Eucla nearly eight years later, but not acted on either in terms of criminal prosecution, even though both men were known to be of good repute. What will be attempted here is an examination of the reasons behind such official inaction; to try to establish why a police officer's report, obtained in difficult circumstances and even at some personal risk (from the elements, if not from the pastoralists) should have been allowed to slide into official oblivion","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"32 1","pages":"103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79042280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exchange in South Eastern Australia: an Ethnohistorical Perspective","authors":"I. Mcbryde","doi":"10.22459/AH.08.2011.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.08.2011.09","url":null,"abstract":"An ethnohistorical perspective is applied to examine the barter system, or the exchange of goods, prevalent in the South-Eastern Australian Aboriginal societies in the 1830s and 1840s. The items exchanged are discussed, noting that the diverse and complex patterns of exchange were an essential feature of the social and political elements of the societies.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"10 1","pages":"132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85970265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Critics, Reviewers and Aboriginal Writers","authors":"Judith Wright","doi":"10.22459/AH.11.2011.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.11.2011.03","url":null,"abstract":"It is only very recently that literary critics and historians have been faced with the new phenomenon of Aboriginal writing in what have been traditionally their fields. The question of what critical standards they are to apply to this new literature and history is a thorny one, and has already become something of a battleground. The ‘literature of protest’ in Western terms has of course a long history of its own. Minorities, and individuals, who feel themselves oppressed by the dominance of elements in their own society have often been able to express that sense within the literary modes and conventions of that society. But in the case of Aboriginal writers — part of an indigenous enclave of people within a society whose standards and criteria, as well as language, they may not feel the slightest compulsion to take as models — something new faces the critic working within his or her own literary tradition and culture. For the critic of today, a new tenderness of conscience may demand a questioning of critical method and a new look at literary styles and standards as they may be seen by the writer working wholly outside the acceptations of Western culture. Some critics and reviewers have chosen to stick to their lasts and speak de haut en bas as the standard-setters of a culture to which these new contributors must submit themselves. They apparently feel themselves unable, even unwilling, to accept a need to evolve a different aesthetic and critical method to take account of the aims, strengths and limitations of in­ digenous protest writing. They would presumably insist that an established literature and a language impose their own necessities, and that judgements can only be made in the terms they have laid down. But it is an uneasy position, and one that a colonising culture such as ours is increasingly forced to question. By what divine right have we established our own critical standards? Our long traditions of critical writing, for instance about poetry or the novel or the short story, are adapted to deal with the conditions and traditions of a social development very different from any milieu which Aboriginal writers live in or have to draw upon. And they are brief indeed when compared with the traditions of Aboriginal language, oral literature, oral history, evolved within a wholly different world-picture — one moreover which we have ignorantly despised and in most cases and places destroyed altogether. Can we apply the critical stand­ ards we use in evaluating new contributions to our own literature by those who inherit and live within the dominant culture and language, to those who have had no such education, training and background — and who, moreover, may bitterly and thoroughly reject all the bland assumptions of that culture and feel that language an alien imposition? Honest critics may have to admit that the tools of their trade — their education in linguis-","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"108 1","pages":"24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86255435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'Born is Nothing': Roots, Family Trees and Other Attachments to Land in the Victoria River District and the Kimberleys","authors":"P. McConvell","doi":"10.22459/AH.22.2011.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.22.2011.11","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional rights to land in the Victoria River District (VRD) and neighbouring areas of the Kimberley Region of Western Australia are the reflection of different traditions of long standing in the VRD and the Kimberleys. It is seen that the migration of people north from the Western Desert increased the link to new areas.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"51 1","pages":"180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86462866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public Occasions, Indigenous Selves: Three Ngarrindjeri Autobiographies","authors":"T. Rowse","doi":"10.22459/AH.30.2011.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.30.2011.14","url":null,"abstract":"The books by Doris Kartinyeri, Veronica Brodie and Dulcie Wilson, which are authentically autobiographical are discussed. The three Ngarrindjeri autobiographies are discussed with an aim to understand the biographical roots of publicly competing representations of the Ngarrindjeri heritage.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"59 1","pages":"187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81410891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'To infuse an universal terror': a reappraisal of the Coniston killings","authors":"B. Wilson, J. O'Brien","doi":"10.22459/AH.27.2011.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.27.2011.06","url":null,"abstract":"Australian history has of late entered a new phase of self-reflection, fuelled in part by Keith Windschuttle’s questioning the number of Aboriginal deaths as the result of frontier conflict.2 This revisionist view of frontier conflict has led to a re-examination of many events previously accepted as ‘truths’. One of these events, the Coniston killings of 1928 near Alice Springs, has almost universally been accepted as a massacre. Even Keith Windschuttle acknowledges that ‘Coniston deserves the label “massacre”’.3 This year marks the 75th since the tragic events at and around Coniston Station. In September 2003 a plaque was unveiled near Coniston, in honour of those who lost their lives during what is locally referred to as the ‘killing times’.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"20 1","pages":"59-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81702726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Black and Red: The Pilbara Pastoral Workers' Strike, 1946","authors":"Michael Hess","doi":"10.22459/AH.18.2011.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.18.2011.07","url":null,"abstract":"For most of the period of white settlement in Western Australia the labour of Aborigines was an essential factor in rural production. This was especially true in the pastoral industry. Not only was it an industry based on the expropriation of Aboriginal lands by white settlers, it was also an industry largely maintained by the exploitation of cheap Aboriginal labour. Despite the fact that these workers had the reputation of being 'the best stockmen in the world' they were excluded from the provisions of industrial awards and worked and lived under conditions that would not have been tolerated by a white workforce. On 1 May 1946 workers on some two dozen stations in the Pilbara region struck. The degree of co-ordination and solidarity they displayed first amazed and then infuriated both the white pastoralists and their representatives in the State Government. While the mass media either ignored or condemned the strike, sections of the metropolitan labour movement sprang to the defence of the strikers and notable actions of solidarity were organised. The dispute took a number of turns with some employers agreeing to the conditions the workers sought. At one stage the State Government also agreed to substantial reforms but this was later withdrawn. Some workers returned to the industry but others decided that their withdrawal would be permanent.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"613 1","pages":"65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85322084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Leaving the Simpson Desert","authors":"L. Hercus","doi":"10.22459/AH.09.2011.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.09.2011.02","url":null,"abstract":"The lifestyle of the Wangkangurru Aboriginal people of the Simpson Desert and their manner of voluntary exodus from the region are discussed. The transcription, gloss and English translation of the text of a former inhabitant of the desert on how his people left the desert are presented.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"16 1","pages":"22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83097936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}