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Aborigines as a dying race

A White Australia: The policy defended: And luminously explained [by T. A. Coghlan, 28 March 1908]

23 February 2025 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This article, regarding the White Australia Policy, was published in The Daily Telegraph (Launceston, Tas.), 28 March 1908.] A White Australia The policy defended. And luminously explained. The Agent-General for New South Wales (Mr T. A. Coghlan) wrote … [Read more...] about A White Australia: The policy defended: And luminously explained [by T. A. Coghlan, 28 March 1908]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: 500x500, Aborigines as a dying race, blackbirding, dictation test (immigration), grammar - Oxford commas, Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (Australia), publication The Daily Telegraph (Launceston Tas.), SourceTrove, Timothy Augustine Coghlan (1855-1926) (author), White Australia Policy, White Australia re cheap labour, White Australia re defence, White Australia re wages, year1908

Something Aboriginal [by Archibald Meston, 16 August 1902]

25 January 2022 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This article, written by Archibald Meston, was published in The Bulletin (Sydney, NSW), 16 August 1902. A reply to this article was written by Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy) and published in The Bulletin on 30 October 1902.] Something Aboriginal. [For The … [Read more...] about Something Aboriginal [by Archibald Meston, 16 August 1902]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: Aboriginal weapons, Aborigines as a dying race, Archibald Meston (1851-1924) (author), publication The Bulletin (Sydney NSW), SourceTrove, year1902

Colonialism in our literature: My thirty years’ war [by P. R. Stephensen, 16 June 1962]

15 May 2021 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This article by P. R. Stephensen was published in the “Forum” section of The Bulletin (Sydney, NSW), 16 June 1962.] Colonialism in our literature My thirty years’ war By P. R. Stephensen This is an abridgment of a Commonwealth Literary Fund Lecture which Mr … [Read more...] about Colonialism in our literature: My thirty years’ war [by P. R. Stephensen, 16 June 1962]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: Aborigines as a dying race, cultural nationalism, P. R. Stephensen (1901-1965) (author), propaganda as a neutral term, publication The Bulletin (Sydney NSW), SourceTrove, year1962

Sorrow of Black Alf [by P. R. Stephensen]

18 April 2014 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a short story from The Bushwhackers: Sketches of Life in the Australian Outback (1929) by P. R. Stephensen.] Sorrow of Black Alf The aboriginal blackfellows in the Bush knew how to die easily, because they were a dying race, particularly after the white … [Read more...] about Sorrow of Black Alf [by P. R. Stephensen]

Filed Under: chapters Tagged With: Aborigines as a dying race, P. R. Stephensen (1901-1965) (author), short story, SourceIACLibrary, The Bushwhackers (P. R. Stephensen 1929), year1929

Among the Aborigines: A Perth lady’s visit: Mrs. Daisy Bates eulogised [11 September 1921]

10 September 2013 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: An article on the work of Daisy Bates. Published in The Sunday Times, 11 September 1921.] Among the Aborigines A Perth lady’s visit Mrs. Daisy Bates eulogised By Miss C. L. Ruxton. [Recently Miss C. L. Ruxton, of Government House, Perth, paid a visit to … [Read more...] about Among the Aborigines: A Perth lady’s visit: Mrs. Daisy Bates eulogised [11 September 1921]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: Aborigines as a dying race, Australian Aborigines, Daisy Bates (1859-1951) (subject), SourceTrove, year1921

[The report of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines] [11 January 1888]

11 May 2012 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This untitled article provides an example of the thinking of the time that the Australian Aborigines were a dying race, saying that “the aboriginal race is doomed, and is fated to disappear entirely within a few years”. Published in The Age, 11 January 1888.] [The … [Read more...] about [The report of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines] [11 January 1888]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: Aborigines as a dying race, Australian Aborigines, SourceGoogleNews, year1888

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