DELAY

PARLIAMENTS
ines

As
of

this
New
Act

rigines
Mr.
FOR
better
the

number
South

of 'The
Wales
are

by

promised
in

Bruxner

his

but
old

ABORIGINES',
deal

than

the

worst.
The
Government
the 'cut-and-dried'

and
and
heel

other
of the

the
nolicu

seems

interfering
University

Abo

Call'

still

anxiously

to

goes

he
one.

did
We

to be
scheme

persons
and
the

not

Government.
'A
NEW

DEAL
it
would
be
a
whether
best
and
fear
the
the

say

for

hope

the
Aborig
the New
Abo

press,

awaiting

Stevens-Bruxner
speech
promised

in introducing
anthropologistSi
new
Act
to put

the

delaying
of
for

Churches

will

under
the
with
severe

meet

now

Act

new

missionaries,
us

opposition.

white
aroused
the
of
the
and
sympathy
community
are
now
awake
to
the
of
of Parliament
dangers
many
us
over
a
new
which
would
us
no
to
Board,
handing.
'protect'^
better
the
old one.
than
PRO
What
we
ask
is
OF
THE
ABORIGINES
ABOLITION
for
and
we
ask
FULL
CITIZEN
RIGHTS
FOR
TECTION
BOARD,
IN
NEW
ALL
ABORIGINES
SOUTH
WALES.
We

have
members

GIVE
We
All

US EQUAL
do
we

not
ask

want
is

be

to

treated

Act
human

as

for

Aborigines!
and
beings

Australians.

decent

as

ABORIGINES

THE

ACT!
It

CONDITIONS AT COLLARENEBRi
number

previous
exposure

was

of 'The
Abo
made
of
the

25th
August.
Mr.
in
his
Gollan.
no
instructions
have
children
to
Aboriginal
on

nearby

?the

'

to
Mr.
Education

of

towns

Gollan

Walgett
children

the Aboriginal
and
schools,

Mungindi,

at

Collarenebri,
whereby
children,
living
twenty-four
Aboriginal
debarred
a
mile
from
the
are
town,
only
from
the Public
School.
asked
in
the
House
A question
was
T. Lang,
on
on
this
matter]
by Hon.
J.
and
the
was
question
August
5U1.,
Chief
answered by Mr. Gollan,
Secretary,

be well-known
Minister
for

the

to

the

at

that,

and
attend
satis

are
public
very
factory
pupils.
In
almost
other
town
in
the
every
the
children
of
are
West,
Aborigines
with
allowed
to mix
the white
children,
school-desk
and on
at
the play-grounds
where
'Missions'
such
(except
special
as
Brewarrina
and
have
our
Pilliga
people
yarded up in their own
pens).
what
are
the
.child
By
right
Aboriginal
'debarred'
ren
of Collarenebri
from
at
school?
school
the
Has
the
tending
to refuse
enrol
master
the legal
to
right
these
children?
We think
not.
Last month
we
a photograph
published
-

stated
that
reply,
issued
for
been
be removed
from
The
Min
Collarenebri
to
Brewarrina.
ister
admitted
that
'there
are
six
Abo
families
with
children
of school
riginal
at Collarenebri,
the- children
age residing
about
thirteen.'
numbering
that there
We can
inform
the Minister
children
at Collar
are
four
such
twentyenebri,
in the

of sixteen
of these children,
showing that
their
parents
keep them as neat and clean
and healthy
as
white
children.
any
In fact
a
number
of the children
are
'fair'
in
colour.
There
are
very
very
few
and almost
child
full-bloods,
every
is
the descendant
of white
of
pioneers

and

the

were
the names
of whom
printed
Abo
Call',
August issue of 'The
with
there
is
another
that
family
children
of which
the parents
are
seven
anxious
to
return
to Collarenebri
(their
as
soon
as
a school
is
pro
home-town)
vided.
Minister
further
declared
'The
The
children
have
been excluded
Aboriginal
the Collarenebri
Public
but
from
School,

in
the past,
been given
some
have,
they
minister
education
by the wife of a local
of religion.'
information
is
that
the 'educaOur
of a casual
tion'
so
was
nature,
given

Heaven
concerned
with
with
earth
the children
than
(preparing
such
In any
case,
for extermination?).
and

was

more

education
'local

not

is

minister

responsibility

of
of

responsibility

religion',
the Minister

of

any
but
is
the
for Edu

cation.
answer
to Mr.
Gollan's
Lang con
of
follows:
'The
as
Department
that
Ms of opinion,
Education
however,
should
be
made
facilities
separate
proper

Mr.
tinued

available.'
-The
children
live
Why 'separate'?
mile
from
the Public
School
less
than
a
which
is a fine
at
Collarenebri.
building
our
with
teachers.
Why cannot
capable
this
children
to
school,
go
Aboriginal
the Minister
of being,
as
admits,
instead

'debarred'

from

it?

National Library of Australia

west.

Many

of

citizens

respected
also have Aboriginal
and ought
to
be

Collaren

blood
in their
proud of it.
the Minister
declared
that
Continuing,
some
of
at
the
families
Collarenebri
have
a desire'
to
'expressed
go to Pill
Moree.
iga or
ebri

veins,

Terror
We

believe

informed
as

our

by
in

has

been

mis

officers

terror
to

found

afraid
the terrible
removed

They

were

of

Aborigines
Brewarrina.
before
given

because
sufferings

they
of

had
the

from
to
Angledool
of
which
was
(evidence
'the
Select
Parliamentary

the
Committee').
Minister
Why should
that
our
'desire'
to
be
people
removed
from
their
at
birth-place
where
well
and favour
'Colly',
they are
known
to
the
white
and
citizens,
ably
assume

obtain

work?
should

Why
home-town,
buried
cemetery,

in

their
they
exchange
where
their
ancestors
lie
the
famous
'glass-bottle'
to go to a Government
Station

half-starved?
Why
their
compresent
submit
themselves
tactics
extermination

up

parative
liberty
to
the
voluntarily
of the A'.P. 'Board?.
further
'The
Mr.
Gollan
declared,
the opinion
that
have
police
expressed
is
no
reason
there
why all these people
could
not
be transferred
to
one
of the
or
mentioned
above'
places
(Pilliga

Morce).
reason
We
is
no
say there
should
not
be transferred
police
as
are
Collarenebri,
they
only
and can
be moved
servants,
about,

why

the
from

public
wheth

like
it
or
not.
they
beasts
of the
But
are
not
Aborigines
mobs
from
one
to
be driven
like
That
is
the
answer
to
place to another.
and to his officer
at
Collar
Mr.
Gollan,

THE

Mr.
creatingprejudice,
'J
understand
there
has
of having the Abo
talkjocally
removed
from
the1
rigines
stock-route,
as
their
there
and the fact that
presence
interferes
with
they keep dogs,
tlie
pass
of stock.'
age
Another
ridiculous
statement
Our
!

him
Mr.
Gollan
wants
the truth,
let
for the appointment
of a ROYAL
that
COMMISSION.
We have evidence
stand
as
to
will
make
his hair
on
end,
actuallv
in
New
conditions
obtaining,
South

Wales,

TODAY!

The
created

Minister,

Creating

town
is

water

responsible
Our
people
the Barwon

supply'.
of
the
most
ridiculous
made
in
Parliament
by
Minister
of
the
Crown.
have
lived
on
the banks
of
for thousands
of years
with
the

polluting

the

water

who

man

has

Mungindi,

as

Walgett,
ute

to Mr.
reply
Lang,
that
our
alleging
be 'pollutmay

ever

white
such

Prejudice

in his

one

statements

the

on

right

It
is
the
supply.
placed
big towns,
and
Collarenebri,
to
river-bank,
poll

water.

Further

the Darling
runs
downstream,
Brewarrina,
Bourke, Wil
right
through
cannia
and
all
and
Menindie,
receives
white

the

enough

man's
to

which

drainage,

or
a
big reserve,
from
the town;
and
the nearest
half-a-mile
from
the
road!
It
is
all
of
the
part
cowardly
method
white
Authorities
hit
by which
at
the defenceless
blackfellow
without
him -a
chance
to
in
giving
say a word

Cowardly

our

poison

because

camped

cod

every

six

on

in

river-flats

half
a
mile
from
enebri.
Minister
the Barwon,
a
assumes
that
our
people
the water.
(What about

sheep which
The

cream

at
people
DOWNSTREAM

of acres
in
the
of the West,
surely
entitled
to
their
pitch

and

bush-workers.
Does he think
they
would
allow
their
when
dogs to go out
mob
of sheep was
And
approaching?
docs he think
a blackfellow's
dog has no
more
sense
than
a
Minister
of
the
Crown?
The
whole
drift
of
Mr.
Gollan's

shows
the
irrational
prejudice
which
our
unfortunate
against
people
have
to
in
their
contend,
last
struggle
to
themselves
from
extinction.
preserve
of
Deprived
accused
of
education,
water
and interfering
with
the
polluting
of stock,
how
can
we
answer
passage
such
accusations
made
of
by a Minister
the
Crown
on
the lloor
of
Parliament
answer

House?

at

some

will

take

despised

'

the

'polluting'
millions

who
peo'ple,

have

give
The

of

the
polluted
a
handful
only

for

and continued
to
150 years,
has been a worse
day,
example of racial
and race
persecution
than
the
prejudice
Jews in Germany have suffered.
You
arc
aliens
to
admitting
Jewish
tralia,

of
the banks
of the
Crown
are

will

we

While

Collar

We
can
only
hope that there
Members
of Parliament
who
on
behalf
of our
up the cudgels
and
and
that
persecuted
race,
some
measure
of
get
justice
IT
IS TOO
LATE.
Australians,
we
to
appeal
you
us
a chance
to improve
ourselves
treatment
of Aborigines
in
Aus

are

BEFORE

the waters?)
pollute
of
the
that .our
is
joke
Collarenebri
are
camped
from
the town.
It is

the white
people
Barwon
for our
of 'them
left.

are

people

the

families

Aboriginal

the

Accusations

millions

in some
little
corner
camp
without
being
accused
of stealing
land
from, sheep!
Mr.
Gollan
that
himself
admitted
the
of
Collarenebri
are
Aborigines
drovers

to

Yet

the

all

Open Spaces

is

stream.

are

on

mile
house is

one

prejudice
by
at
Collarenebri,

people,
ing the
This

camped

are

common,

In
Vast

If

declared

some

people

reply.

move

AGE

further

Gollan
been

field,

enebri.

MODERN

Still

er

out

Tactics
Minister

in
this
matter,
who
visited
Coll
the people
in
a
threats
that
had
through
remove
them
to
forcibly
Reserve.

July

been
made
a
Government
heard

the
his

representative

arenebri
state
of

can

and
give

they

IN

AUSTRALIANS

to

must

and

bullied

be
should
to

REPEAL

In the
Call'
an
colour-bar

TWO

EDUCATION!

AND

OPPORTUNITY
Dog and Goat

while

Australia,

whose
Aborigines
this
from
country
A

tralia

curse

who

people
THIS

is

on

exterminating
have

ancestors

time
the

the Old
roamed

immemorial.

white

stand

by callously

MEANS

YOU!

men

and

of
see

Aus
our

die.

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BOARD

ENTITLED

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TO

LEASE

ABO

Protection

^enslarid's

RESERVES?

DEATH

ABORIGINES'

The
Association
is investigating
the legal
Progressive
Aborigines
the
of
in
New
Reserves
position
regarding
leasing
Aboriginal
men
Wales
to white
for
South
V
grazing purposes.
can
discover,
the
Protection
Board
is
As
far
as
we
Aborigines
of land,
for
the
use
trustee
for
14,000
acres
reserved
approximately
in
New
South
of Aborigines
Wales.

Father
In
lished

North
that

'Abo
by Mr.

Call'
R. M.

pub

.we

Watson,

to
the ef
grazier,
have been drowned

Queensland

fect

and signed^on
Aboriginal
Department,
by
his employer.
The
award
is paid
wage
for his
his
labouiy
earnings
being paid
into the
as
police
agent for the Protector.
These
banked
are
to his
with
the
credit,
of
week
allowed
exception
1/10/per
Hida
for living
On paper'
the
expenses.

PACT

3nd Son.

month's
last_
a statement
Aborigines

in

out

These
the

Reserves

scattered''

are

State,
extent,

few

With

few

only a
Reserves

riginal

much
these

value to
Reserves
for the
and
it

ment
ively,

of

was

exclus
people
that
intended
these
access
to

our

never

white
men
should have
Reserves
for commercial
purposes.
There

for grazing
purposes.
In the
absence
of
proper
the Board's
authority
testing

New

in

that

means

an

less

of

average
of land
in
the

acre-andra-half
each Aboriginal

Wales,

South

Reserved
land
of his

and

an

the poor qual

considering
of the land reserved,
is
a small
enough
ity
inheritance
for the A.P.
Board
to keep as
an
inviolable
trust
for
our
people.

which,

cestors,

the United

known,

of America,
as
struck
Indian
on

States
oil

was

Reservations,
and,
speculators,
its
word
to

private
stood

powers
white
to
understood
ines only.

before
the Select
was
given
of Parliament,
last
that
year
deductions
were
made, the money
of building
used
for
the purpose

additions'

to

huts

tor

Aborigines

on

individual
ductions
to

which
arises
is
whether
The
question
A.P.
Board
is
to
the
entitled
legally
make
such .deductions
from
en
family
dowment
for any purpose
whatso
money
ever.
We
dd not
doubt
the good inten
Board's
officials
in thus
tion of the A.P.
additions
to finance
structural
attempting
-the
due
to
to huts
from
money
Aborig
child
but nevertheless
ines for
welfare;
it
seems
to
us
to be an
action
arbitrary
the Board,
which
should
be 'brought
?bybefore
the notice
of the Commissioner
Endowment.
for Child
On our
Pro
reading of the Aborigines
tection
erected
on
an
Acts,
any building
Reserve
become
the
Aboriginal
may
of the Board,
and
is
not
the
property
of any
individual
property
Aboriginal
in such
residing
It
therefore

building.
to

seems

that

unjust

us

taking

legal

Aborigines
Aboriginal
Child

provide

housing

A similar

to
regard
the practice
of Re
managers
'work
serves
in compelling
to
Aborigines
the Man
for rations',
i.e.
on
improving
in
other
work
on
the
or
garden,
ager's
Reserves.
It
is
our
that
rations
opinion
for Aborigines
are
granted by parliament

without
considered

in

exists

grievance
of some

community.

tied
and are
on,
'string'
to be a birthright
of Aborig
in compensation
for the expropria
ines,
tion
of their
lands
by white men.
advice
is
now
?On
these
matters
legal
taken.
being
an)'

which
The

the

When
Australia,
out

wiped

which,

cold,
unknown

white

first

men

of our
thousands
and
by measles
in

their
our

among

the

nrimitive

to

came

were
people
the common

state,

of

were

T.B.

is

Today,
scourge
Aborigines
throughout
raging
among
in
and
is
Australia,
taking
heavy toll
New
South Wales.
Our
inherit
people
strong
physique,
but

cannot

the

which

benevolence,
allows.
Rations

contend
white

and

against
man's
official

the poor
food
and
charity,
'protection'

Since

the
Aborigines
Progressive
to stir,
started
up the Govern
official
ration
has
in
some
the
of 6
been increased
by addition

'Association'-

ment,
places
ozs.

jam,

We

4 potatoes,
would like to

2
see

onions.
Mr.
Gollan,

National Library of Australia

the

on

of

system

that

medical
and
treatment,
proper
above all, PROPER
FEED'JNG, is given
to sufferers
from
this
complaint.
of T.B.
are
the
Among other causes
disgraceful
huts-provided
by the Govern
sure

ment

on

and

hot

disgrace
It

to

is

Aborigines,

of

Government
itself
now,

in

these
huts
and are

summer,

for
the

which calls
September

munity

Cold

reserves.

in

death-traps

are
a

Aboriginal

and

the

winter

and
hunger
Government

cold
on

your

in

the
Re

'

serves.
.

No

Aboriginal'

CURSE

YOU!

18th

Herald,

Brisbane,
Friday.
was
found
dead,
low
condition,

boy
in

The
natives

should,
.-?'.-',

go

hungry

or

to

the

cover

be

Unenviable

refus

protect

zealously

themselves.
against
No
wonder
the authorities
condemn
their
predecessors'
of the blacks.
Those
old time
much
to learn.

of

cost

promptly

was

request
have to

of.

today

treatment

had

tyrants

Position

The

it
stands
is:
For Hida.
week
is
in
absurdly
and clothe
himself
and
The
of Mr.
John.
charity
Hynes alone
makes
it possible
to carry
on.
No doubt,
Hida's
stomach
trouble
is
caused
largely
hard
on
insufficient
and in
by working
ferior
food;
and Hida
was
an
exception
hard
toiler.
Should Mr. Hynes for
ally
sake his old servitor,
refuse
to
sign him
on
father
and son
will
be sent
to
again,
Palm
Island
The old
without
hesitation.
man
would
be uprooted
from
the soil
he
has known
from
a
his
child;
age and
make
it
for
him
background
impossible
to
fit
until
at
in;
last
his
from
body,
which
hundreds
of pounds
have
been
filched,
would
find
relief
in death.

position

as

Thirty
shillings
adequate to feed

.very

Our
onlv comment
on
CAN
SUCH
THINGS

the

Window
The

REFUSED
To Take

OWN

MONEY

Health

Trio

witli

with

the Aborigines,
in
humour

sense

days of North
were
Traps
hunts
'nigger'

ot

Perouse.
The
truth

make

to

able

Queensland
witlv
Hour;
poisoned
a popular
a
pastime;
se
a
of
pipe
'baccy'
sugar,
;

indigen

ous

people.
Some
and
their
black
policemen
tricks
on
the
local
troopers
played
One
black
handcuffed
was
'boys'.

.around

the
Russel;
and
his
when
captors
for him.
Gins
and
snider
brained
with

on

sapling
from
thirst
back
to
ride

perished

forgot
piccaninnies

were

West

Out

butts.

the

tribes

eradicated.
N

More

Cruelty
Cruelty

to

the

Refined
Aborigines

the

Hida
Mill.

oldest

inhabitants

of

this

of
remembers
the building
Me is under
the protection

aged

an

farm
One

of
of

district,

Goondi
of

the

the-

New

example
La

La

of

by

white

tain

that

nothing

of

like

South

Wales.
Government

into

'model'

ex
'window-dressing'
of Sydne)% and
people

receive

favour
of Abo

treatment

Wales.

'pampering

Perouse
La

employed

is

by the

may
of the
South
of this

visitors,
in

at

icy'

in.

or

that

pol

is
the fact
that un
Perouse
'inmates'
may' ob
man's
relief
unemployed
when
we
ask
for the same

but
wages;
privilege
tq be extended
by the Depart
of Labour
ment
and Industry
to Aborig
ines living
the bush Reservations,
on
we
are
met
refusal.
with,
a fiat

Conditions
son,

on

are

La

'there

so

Perousc,

the suggestion
New
South

for
Wales

good,
that
every
to

by

compari

would

we

Aboriginal
and

come

make
in
live

That

would

show up the Government's

because
there
arc
only a few
La
Perouse
and
Reserve,
from
other
districts
have
to
the scrub.

hypocrisy,'
houses
at

strangers
in
camp
Our advice
.

then

was

crude;
refined.
today it is- more
case
of Hida,
Take the typical
Aborigine
employed on the cane
Mr.
Ned
Hynes at Daradgee.

modern
living

to'

similar
there
New

Perouse

impression

rigines
An

wealthy

squatters
water-holes
vital
The
North
West
established
great

Perouse,
houses,

Aborigines
good

are

done

La

so

hibit,

whites

T.B.

airly

that

is

Reservation,

the early
settlement.

virile,

else

anywhere
Everything

syphilis;

The
a

is,

it

were

at La
well-built
and
other

on,

Reservations

inal

set

handful
of
duced
the native
women;
decimated
and alcohol

laid

own
fishing
(some having their
boats),
and
by
selling
toy
and
boomerangs
souvenirs
tourists.
to
For
number
this
reason,
a
of well
white
in
have
meaning
people
Sydney
formed
the impression
that
all
Aborig

dealing

Reserve
contains

water

conveniences.
Perouse
make,

the
reprint
following
lengthy
'The
from
a
recent
issue
of
Guardian'
(Queensland)

We

Perouse

Aboriginal

Sydney,

near

is

foregoing
BE?

Dressing

at La

La

gone.
But
those
winter months, you
during
white
take
were
kind
note, there
people
thousands
of aged and
sick Aborigines
with
shivering
bush
slums,

is

Morning

drove
the natives
from.
and hunting
grounds.
was
tamed
herds
great

com

civilised.

has

cold.

the

exist
form!

Government
does not
protection
protect,
but slowly
exterminates.
The first
in
the spread
step
combatting
of T.B.
will
be to en
Aborigines
among

winter

of Hour,
albs
are
of
81bs.
of tea,
of baking
.fib
jib
powder,
sugar,
and ]/of meat
worth,
per week,
On
ration
thousands
of
this
many
have
starved
to
death
on
Aborigines
Government
their
constitution
Reserves,
the point'
fall
to
where,
weakened
they
T.B.
victims
to

to

improved
that

is

overseas

its

accusation

trip.

ed
ed

In

trying
in

even

never

near
cells
at
Forsyth,
this
Both
had
their
Cairns,
morning.
throats
gashed.
'A
native
tracker
who
was
escorting
the father
and son
from
Normanton
en
route
to Fantome
Island,
stopped at For
and the Aborig
syth on Thursday
night,
ines were
in
cell.
locked
one
'When
went
to
the Tracker
the cell
this
found
he
the
morning,
boy dead, and
the father
with
his throat.
a deep gash in
'It
is
believed
that a razor
had been
used.
There
no
doctor
at Forsyth,
the
is
nearest
at
25 miles
being
Georgetown.
aid was
but medical
given by the
away,
matron
at
the Forsyth
Hospital.'

T.B.

Secretary,

account

Aborigine's
a

will

1938.)

indulged
Colonial
the ration,
Our

people.

dread

OF

same

escape.
from
the
following
of 18th
Sydney Morning Herald
June,
and
it
without
I(J38,
we.
publish
any
other
of
the
facts
than
is
knowledge
in
the
of
given
newspaper's
report
them.
the
Not
seen
of
having
any
report
Coroner's
cannot
we
findings,
say why
the father
and son
seemingly
attempted
but
leave
it
to
our
readers
to
suicide,
make
their
surmise.

'An
Aboriginal
and his
father
in
the
Police

Mr.
year,
Hynes considered
health
would
failing
improve
by
a
The
on
change of climate.
employer,
Hida's
to
the Protector
behalf,
applied
for
some
held
in
trust
on
the
money

its

from
their
home
and told
that they
an
Island
from

they

Sydney

work
things
allowance
of 30/per
and
clothe
Hida
and
fourth-class
scholar
at

Last
Hida's

and

terrified

are

extract

Northern

SCOURGE

know

they

article

THE

blacks

rest

not

the

taken
forcibly
by policemen,
to
be
going
put on

are

the
do

child.

growing

pariahs
by placing
the sight
of the

from

wonder

(from

ally.

of

rid

get
away

John,

for

Slate
School.
is
Daradgee
John
another
Australian
who lacks
cer
child,
tain
foods
considered
for
the
necessary

the

Aborigines,
the
being

case

every

when

June,

from
its
provide
Parliamentary
grant
(exceeding
50,000
annually).
We
understand
that
endowment
family
is
to
assist
the parents
intended
money,
to
and
other
food,
provide
clothing,
necessaries
but
that
it
for
children,
should
not
be used for- capital
improve
ments
to the
vested
in
the A.P.
property
Board
as
trustees
for 'Aborigines
gener

for

districts

on

de
should
suffer
Endowment
money
which
the
Board

Aborigines
from

advice
Protection
mothers.

should

gov

Reseuves.

ernment

is

the
due
to

son,

the

by

also

to

far

general
No

in

we

Deductions

money

Evidence

beinir

them

MADE?

Association
made
by

Committee
such

and

men,

in

namely

it
inequit
Aborigines

for

A.P.

the

its

THESE

done.

Board
has exceeded
not
in thus 'having
leased
or
men
land
which
is
usually
to
be reserved
for
Aborig

whether

us

Endowment

The
Aborigines
Progressive
of deductions
the
questions
Board
from
endowment
family

think

his

would
of

account

banking
beyond want

unhappily,
that way.
The
has to feed

callous
policies
an
Australian
of the policy
of

most

effect

and

inebriates,
intention

the position
to investigate
thorough
it
before
the notice
of the
bringing
and
other
Crown
Lands
Department,
to
who
be able
advise
authorities,
may

is

ARE

has been

the

into

Hida's

week

out

to

in
pursuit
extermination
by 'protection'.
The
Government
uses
Queensland
islands
for lepers,
coastal
criminals,

this,

ly,

attempts
by
despite
the
Government
insisted
that
the

WHY

do

tend

and

Family

do what

to

At the same
time,
we
land
reserved
able
that
should
be leased to white

for

is

assume

entitled

legally

of

means

of

one

put
Government

as
to
the
opinion
of this
procedure,
that
the Board
is

otherwise

must

we

an

express
or

legality

rigines

In
well

cannot

we

Abo
which
than
an

10,000

approximately

arc

is

islands
ever

td

mainland

ines

men

money-making

from

of

him
place
his life;

the
away
the coast, particularly
Aborig
from
the far inland,
who have never
seen
the ocean.
The
Government's
Queensland
policy
of
011
ocean
segregating
Aborigines

used
for pastoral
purposes.
The
here
is
that
the
A.P.
position
acres
of
as
trustees
for
Board,'
14,000
land
reserved
for
has in its
Aborigines,
wisdom
fit
lease many
of these
seen
to
or
in part,
to white
reservations,
wholly

Abo

exceptions,
of not
are
land,
poor
white
Nevertheless,
men.
were
granted
by Parlia
use

Queensland

taken
ing
islands
off

be

Murray

size

'?

of

being
only
and
the
acres
in
biggest
being
Cummeragunja, a Reserve of 5,000 acres
of
of Bama, on the banks
in
the county
River.
the
the

to
from
Palm
attempting
escape
Island
and other
settlements
off
the coast
of North
Queensland.
We have ample evidence
that Aborig
ines of
are
terrified
.of
be

should
'benefit
get the financialthe oil yield.
In Australia,
there
has been
however,
oil
struck.
The
no
commercial
only
value
of the 'Reservations'
is for
grass to
Indians

through-

some

are

living
busii-slums,
their

in

to

country

half-starved
is

.that

who
Aborigines,
or
conditions
roll
should
they
La Perouse, to put

swags and come

acid test on the Government's
policy.
We
would
to
like
see
ten
thousand
at
La Perouse,
which
Aborigines
living
would
a Tourist
Sideshow worth
provide
the'

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MASSACRES
HORRIBLE

STORIES

VICTORIA

OF

CAPRICORNIA

EXTERMINATION.

in
the
terrible
stories
of
of the
blacks
massacre
following
are
related
Port
District
by JAMES
BON
Phillip
(Now Victoria)
of Schools,
and
well-known
-historian.
an
Inspector
WICK, formerly
are
taken
from
his
'The
Wild
White
Man
The
extracts
books,
The
Blacks
of Victoria',
in Melbourne,
1863.
And
published
The
of
at White
Australians,
history
is pointed
accusing
finger
of
a
murdered
ask
and
the Aborigines,
the
remnant
today
people,
cease.
that
cruel
shall
this
persecution

We

of

bloody

and

the

between

conflicts

Port

and

have not
been
in the
neighbour

Phillip

constant

whites

as

so

of Tasmania.
Our
natives
colony'
race
than
the
were
a
curly
gentler
to
headed
j slanders.
a
sad tale
is
Still,
and murders
in
of aggressions
be told
the olden
times.
can
tell
of stolen
If
the settlers
sheep
ing'''

Novel
Commonwealth

and

slaughtered
also rehearse

can

and

murder.

assures

us

chief

shepherds,
of

tale

Mr.
Protector
'nine-tenths

that

the

to

'charged

aborigines
man's
interference

in

Association

had

been

cause

Two

Port
down

sent

Phillip
in the
first

of 1836 to Mr.
Batman's
Indented
Head.
They
their
return.
upon
had
been
wounded
tliem.

early
part
station
on
murdered
One
of
the natives

Van
Diemen's
hatred
against
about
this
shepherd

bore
a
Another
a native
he was

this

of

to

girl

tree

and
blacks.
time bound
her while

with
his
Hock.
Contriving
away
(led
to Buckley
thing
escape the poor
He told
Mr.
for protection.
Gellibrand,
who
sent
the rough
rascal
immediately
back
to Van
Land.
Diemen's
The. next
attack
was
an
unaccountable
of
Green
one.
Mr.
Franks,
formerly
had
Ponds, in Tasmania,
settled
near
Mt.
Cotterill.
Always kind to the abo
he had no
fear of aggression.
rigines,
dis
Some
callers
at
the
homestead
covered
the gentleman' and James Smith,
and the
dead,
his overseer,
lying
quite
of their
contents.
premises rifled
to Mr.
four gentle
Connell,
According
men
Mr.
Gellibrand
to as
accompanied
certain
the truth
of the report.
The remains
of the men
were
brought
and interred
Burial
the
to town
on
Hill,
little
inclosure
near
the Flagstaff.
An organised
under
Dr.
Cotter,
party
with
and some
of Batman's
Syd
Billiang
to

set
off
in
natives,
hostile
pursuit.
ney
came
on
to
the track
of the
They' soon
murderers.
a
They approached
place
where
a lubra's
up
grub stick was
picked
and
recognised.

A Great-

Killed

Many

The end of the story

will
the words
of Old Goslyn,

in

arian:

'They

let

them;

at

fly

be best told
the octogen

and what
was
not
great
many,
wounded
ran
away,
leaving
loaded
with
them; a dray was
had

Many of
herds
were
and had,
in
of the poor

killed

and
behind
what
the)'
and
spears
killed

all

The
records

late

place
the

a
near
sheep-stealing
party
with
the
of
Victoria
help
Ranges,
natives
of which
the paper
friendly
of the day states,
'It
was
not
until
some
had
taken
and
a
hard
scuffling
place,
were
considerable
number
of the blacks

and wounded,
beat a retreat.'
Above
of
fifty

that

Land,

were

search

for

one

supposedly

captive.
natives

The
tales

of

23rd
more

ber

not

were

wrongs.
the
from
Gazette,
confirms
it
has
'Whereas,
of the Government,
tion

aboriginal

the

Gipps

white

the
female

without

their

'in

The following
quota
Government
Sydney
this

statement

the knowledge
of
on
the night
of six
or
party
num
a
surprised
in
a
natives,
sleeping
to

come

that

last,
February
armed Europeans

of

marauders

murdered

coldly
a

the

tribe,

National Library of Australia

Mr.
'To

of

all

-500

Slaughtered

have
adds
'I
been
that
a
has
petition
a
to
the Governor
containing
presented
murders
list
of nineteen
committed
by
the blacks.
if
it
were
I would,
necessary,
make
of 500 blacks
who
had
put a list
been slaughtered
and that
by the whites,

gentleman

within

'to
a
short
time.
It
was
known
of
stockmen
there
that
a
party
the
blacks
to
the
search
of
and
found
them
northward,
having
of men
and women,
ripped
up a number

went

in

and
dashed
out
the
children.'
In 1842, the Government
reward
the

women

of

white
while

brains
at

of

the

Melbourne
the
dis

150 for

murderer

at

of three
Portland

asleep,
instances
are
authenti
has been laid
for
poison
them, as though they had been vermin.
of
the
bush
The
and
splitters
sawyers
to
to
have
been
known
decoy women
and then
their
huts,
awhile,
keep them

Bay.

Not

cated

in

few

which

them.
Commandoes
would
be
destroy
got up by them on some
Sunday holiday
for the perpetration
of a threat
of ven
lustful
and
from
cravings.
geance,
Several
convicts
were
executed
some
raid
at
years ago
Sydney for a frightful
when
a
butchered
against
tribe,
they
parents
others

and

children

With

together.
that
described
by
small
of the
Boers:
'Firing
Harrington
of a Hotten
shot into
the legs and thighs
tot is a punishment
unknown
to somo
not
it

was

like

these
monsters.'
Well
might the South
declare
of
missioners

of

that

for

their

use,'

Herbert's

Xavier
which
The

the

won

by

Publicist

Melisande

River.
a

very
in the

machine

of

but

it,

make

to

He
from

mean.

than

more

wished

North-country

was

did

was

the

not

so,
casually
a .bargain

show
be
of

Australian
taken
Mark's

whitemen.
lipped,
small-eyed
Jock's
face was
as
red as a boiled
even
crayfish,
redder
than it usually
was
in this
climate
in which
it
was
as
as
a gumtree
foreign
would
be in his
native
because
it
fogs,
had
been
under
the blood
lately
put
influences
of
salt-wind
and
rousing
grog.
The redness
of his face set off
the blue
ness
of his bulging
and the
eyes
English
blackness
of his
hair and the whiteness
of his
looked
eyes

have

Nawnim's
Thus

Home

happened that one quiet ?afterthe early

part of the Wet -Season
of that
little
now
Nawnim,
year,
aged
while
in
Mark's
tak
six,
house,
playing
of .Mark's
absence
in
ing
advantage
Town
and Yeller
in
the
native
Jewty's
heard
a splash
of the anchor
and
camp,
the rattle
For a moment
of a chain.
he
stood
then crept to the front
bewildered,
door
and
to
be
confronted
out,
peeped
and
with
the sight
of Mark
and Chook
from
the dinghy.
Jock landing
Nawnim
ran
intend
to the back
door,
to
flee.
But'
was
out
of
put
ing
flight
the question
by the sight of heavyhand
ed Jewty
home.
For
a
moment
running
he hesitated,
little
his
wits,
gathering
then drew back, and, after
making a wild
rushed
into
of his surroundings,
survey
in
the bedroom.
rush
hiding
Jewty was
home
to
her
infant
ing
get
daughter
whom
she
had
left
on
Diana,
asleep
Mark's
white-sheeted
bed.
Diana
was
a
black quadroon,
her father
a black
being
it

in

noon

fellow.
child
in

Mark
forbade
Jewty to have the
the house.
house
of one
consisted
large
a kitchen
built
under
the back
room,
with
veranda
and connected
with
the room
by
a
curtained
The
room
itself
doorway.
and high.
it
was
Two-thirds
of
large
served
as
a living-room,
the rest,
screen
ed off
curtains
sten
by canvas
prettily

Mark's

cilled

hand
of Mark,
as
the
rushed
into
the bed

by the finicky

bedroom.
room

Nawnim
so

crashed
She was

that
he
precipitately
into
the bed.
He woke
naked
like
but
himself,

nearly
Diana.
choco

not
as
he was.
copperish
late-coloured,
She, did not
him.
under
see
He darted
the bed.
The whitemen
came
up the beach.
the back
door,
Jewty flew in through

took

peep from
within
were

the front.
The
a few
yards now.

men

drew back,
darted
into
Nawnim

hesitated
for
the bedroom.
could

through

gap

see

in

moment,

white
She
then

into the living-room

the loose-drawn
cur

did
as
whitemen
enter,
who
was
Jewty,
crouching
by the gap.
The
whitemen
of
stopped in the middle
He

tain.

the

saw

the

room.

asked

Jock

for

drink.

Mark

said

that

wait till
the crew
they must
brought
Chook
the things
from
the ship.
Then
said that
he would
like
Jock to try his
off
his
house
to
Ambrosia,
and went
to
some.
Soon
Mark
went
front
to the
gel
door

to

What
that

see

Jock
room,
his

had
Jock

the

crew

were

doing,,

the boys were

idling,
hurry them.
walked
about the neatlyappoint
Nawnim
it.
could
examining

seeing
out

went

to

face,

never

was,

seen

in

which
before.
fact,

was

quitu

one
It

such

frightened
a

he
him.

as

good-looking

prominent

large
like
like

A
When

His

teeth.

shark's

to

Nawnim,

teeth
his

crab's.

he

Pommy
the

approached

bedroom

NTawnim
turned
sick
with
fright.
Jewty
must
have been given
a
turn
too.
She
rushed
bed and snatched
to the
up her
little
hand.
on
Nawnim's
baby and trod

of the locality
word
for what

ordinary

he said
about
the machine,
and
would
No to the price
have said Yes or
asked,
and, as a preliminary
to
doing business,
would
have stood
the needy seller
treat.
Mark
had to stand
treat
and had
himself,
to take
the plant.
Jock out to inspect

fellow.
What
troubled
Nawnim
was
his
His mouth
red as fresh
was
as
colouring.
raw
and
and
wide
meat,
thick-lipped
and
was
Nawnim
constantly
writhing.
used
to
thin
lean-faced,
brown-faced,

purchase.

An
would

see

created

and

power
plant.
to
of ever
despair
when
he met
plant,
who
owned
Jock Driver,
called
situ
Gunamaiah,

was

he

the

ed

and

Fox

Flying

electric

he heard
he

cause

if

as
dealt
with
the aborigines
'they
as
members
them
not
they
regarded
of the human
but
as
inferior
ani
family,

of

the

sell

interested

then,
Australian
Com
such
Englishmen

the

on

moment

that

mals,

from

Price
six shillings).
Street,
Sydney.
tells
how
halt
son
the
caste
of
iVAWNIM,
his
on
Fox
and
birthplace
Flying
Island,
white
for
civilisation
the
first
time.

beginning
to

named
cattle-station

deeply

on,

the

sell

Driver
Jock
and
Englishman

thus
one
has been
which
dead lamb,
to
roast
for him
while
the opera

to
was

able

ated

Dredge,

was

man

proper

The
same
been informed

year.
Elizabeth

on

being

not

were

shooting
and

and with
the butt
shoots
the black
man,
end of his piece
knocks
out
the brains
woman
and
the
infant
of the
helpless
at her breast^
The other
woman,
gather
at a little
distance,
ing firewood
escapes
The
bodies
of the others
are
by flight.
then burnt
to prevent
detection.'
to
Mr.
in
Parker,
According
July,
Mr.
Bowman's
of
the
1838,
party
said to have killed
four
Pyrenees were
teen
Bowman's
were
servants
persons.
of the slain,
tried
for burning
the bodies
their
were
ac
to
conceal
cruelty;
they
for want
of white
evidence.
quitted
We
the
the
give
following
story
upon
of
the
Rev.
Mr.
Threlkeld,
authority
in
New
South
a
many
years
missionary
taken
Wales
'A
native
was
by a
and made
to
ascend
a
of whites
part)*
with
round
his neck
this
he
tree
a rope
was
directed
to fasten
to one
of the limbs
of the tree.
When
he had done
this
he
was
fired
at
and
he was
again
again
A volley
wounded
and clung to the tree.
at him;
he let go his' hold,
was
then fired
and was
to others.
suspended as a terror
Was
it
when
tor
surprising
they were
lured
if
by such acts of cruelty
they be
came
scholars?'
apt

killed

atrocity:

going

is

of

took

They

It

trying
He

he seats
himself
by the
fire
with
one
of his women,
while
the
in
donor
sits
with
the musket
opposite
he
his
hand
in an
moment
unsuspecting
tion

covery
native

chase

pleasant

the carcase
of a
given
he forthwith
proceeds
and his two
self
lubras;

offered

blankets,
guns,
found
in
their
were
Hour,
etc.,
possess
and no
was
shown
ion,
them! by
mercy
tribe
that
was
sent
from
the New
the
Settlement
to
do the needful.'
clothes,

similar

hereby

is

and shep
stock-keepers
Van
Diemen's
Land,
shed the blood

Protector,

an

Franks.

somewhat

from

cases,
many
Tasmanians.
to
the
regard
as

many

A
after

the

indisposed
blackfellows

and their
carried
away,
waddies
and
tomahawks.'
the New
Mr.
from
M'Killop,
writing
Yarra
Settlement,
Yarra,
20th,
June
of the murder,
and
1836, gives a version
adds:
'Since
then
I
have
heard
from
thence
that ample justice
has been visit
murdered
Mr.
the
tribe
who
ed on
His

It

by

all

secure

to

were

Land,

deadly

female.

NAWNIM

extract

CAPRICORNIA,
(Book published

Australia,

to set up a new
plan
Chineri
Island
in the
Tikkalalla
and
to
fish
for
on
the
Group
pearl-shell
and
shallow
banks that lay between
there
the Dutch
East Indies.
was
of
It
for
the
purpose
raising
to buy a diving-outfit
that he was
money

besides

shots,

pistol

OF

another

this

of

tired
his

was

trepang.

camp

sport.

of

females.

the

to

the

aborigines

belonging

Robinson
the mis

of

is

white
result
of the
with
women.'
the native
The first
murder
by the
Port
had
its
origin
Phillip
their
interference
with

shepherds

the natives
seduction

or
gun
fourth

North
Prize

wonders

the

Mark

etc.

notified,'

month

209a
Publishing
Coy.,
The
extract
following
is
MARK,
brought from

in the
immediate
scrub,
vicinity
Smith
of the
station
of
Messrs.
and
ana
Orsby, in the Portland
Bay District;
murder
then
and
there
barbarously
ed three aboriginal
females
and one
male

by
wounding

of

great

tea-tree

child,

this

publish

sees

The
blacks

ADVENTURES

THE

The

Nawnim
heaved
struck
his
yelped,
away,
head on the underneath
of the bed, and
rolled
into view
Diana
scream
bawling.1
ed and clutched
at her
mother's
hair.
in.
The
children's
cries
Jock looked
mouths.
All three -stared
at
died in their
him.
'Hellaw!'
he cried.
'What's
this
(lie
ch ?'
fahmily,
Still
trio
the
stared.
looked
Jock
them
then said to Jewty,
over,
grinning,
'You
Mark's
missus?'
She
blinked.
'Eh?'
he asked.
she muttered.
'Yu-i,'
'These
his
piccanins?'
She nodded to Nawnim
and muttered,
Mark.'
'Dat.one
belong
'Not
this
one?'
he asked,
stepping
up
to look
at Diana.
with'
Diana
shrink
Jewty shrank
back,
ing up in her arms.
'Eh?'
asked Jock.
'Mini
she mut
belong him blackfella,'
tered
as
to
then,
Jock put out a hand
touch
the child,
she cried
'Nosharply,
more
!'
and struck
his
hand
back
with
her own.
blazed.
bitch!'
he
'You
Jock's
eyes
hissed.
with
hand
Jewty stood rigid,
upraised
to
strike
again.
Then
Mark
and Chook
came
in.
Jock
looked
round
the
'and
turned,
curtain,
said to Mark
with
intro
a grin,
'Joost
meself
to your
I didn't
doocin'
fahmily.
knaw
ye had one.'
'Eh?'
murmured
Mark, approaching.
He
at
stopped
thq doorway and gaped.
:

Nawnim

shrank

Jock chuckled.
ed from
then
said

one

to

back
to
the wall.
Mark
look?
swallowed,
another
of the group,
to
the
'What
Jewty,

thickly
here with
those
brats?'
you doin'
She
Diana
to
frowned,
her,
hugged
two-fella'
and
'Him
answered
sulkily,
himself.'
come
hell

After
out!'
She

Mark

moment

slunk

grunted,

'Get

side
the
Nawiiim
still
shrank
ways.
against
'Come
out
wall.
Mark
at
him,,
growled
now!'
of
that
come
on
Nawnim
shrank
more.
'That
eh?'
said Jock with
your
kid,

him,

past

eyeing

him

grin.
Mark
'The

at

glanced
lassie

him

tawl

me

sourly.
he wuz,'

said

chuckling'
deeply.
Jock,
to
As he
Mark
Nawnim.
stepped
up
hand
to
seize him,
out
a
Nawnim
put
shot
from
the wall,
collided
with
the bed,,
dashed

stumbled,

to

the

door.

Jock

him.
He shrieked,
fur
fought
and darted
the
to
wriggled
iously,
free,
back
door.
was
on
the
veranda.
Jewty
bounded
As Nawnim
past her she dealt
him a cuff that sent him sprawling
on
his
face
in
the sand.
In an
instant
he was
to the
bush.
shrieking,
up and flying,

grabbed

scowl
laughed heartily,
slapped
Mark
on
the
As
were
back.
they
down
to
he said to Mark,
drink,
'Pine
that.
What
slahmp of laddie,
ye
Jock

ing

silling

goin'

to

do

wi'

him?'

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Mark
intended

page

with
a grunt
that
that
to
the impression
give
the matter.
did not
wish
to discuss
'Yeleavin'
here when
.him behind
awee?'
asked Jock.
gaw
Mark
looked
.at
him,
and. /after
moment,
fact 1

'Well

said,

know.;
you
bush.'

him

he
ye
a

of
the

to

hi

him

did

know

not

child
Home

in

that

there

expensive,
Had
he
have
son's

been

wawnt

said

surely
half

and

'I

I've

yet.

Boot
He

it's

way.'
been

in't

got one
bluidy

not

me

laughed.
kids
to
'1 wawnt
on,
yeller
Government
foremen.
The
to
his
mairk
a bloke
pay
wages
own
soons
see?'
'What
a herd
pi yeller
you raisin'
asked
Chook.
fellers?'
mouthful
oi
Am
a
Jock swallowed
he
'Gawd
!'
blinked.
brosia,
gasped,
kerosene
?'
breathed.
'Wha's
thaht
boys.'
He
train
cawn't

went
as

Chook
frowned.
Mark
and said,
'Yeah
grinned,
if
can
have the kid
him,
you want
But
don't
where
go tellin'
anyone
he's not
mine
got him.
Dinkum,
'Aw
I
wawn't
nawthin','
say
Jock.
'Give's
word
on
your
'And
word
give's
your

'

Mark.
treat
him

you'll

decent.'
said

'Right!'

and

Jock,

his

grasped

worrd.
You
can
rely
he wutf
me
him
bring
up like
have to pay
awn
cos
then
I wawn't
soon,
him
see?'
wages
that a mean
but
Mark
motive,
thought
that by reason
of it Nawnim
was
satisfied
would
be well
treated
for the rest
of his
hand.
on

'There's

ed some
miles.

two

or

Such a holding
Capricorn ia,

vast

in

some

even

than

more

hundred

about
two
Port. Zodiac.
three
thousand
where
ten

It

cover

thought'

there

thousand

were

square

miles.

Jock

intended

stock-camp,
the
to learn
the

till

he prove

soon

be

when,

man,

or

more

intelligent,
selfish
and

Jock had

ive-labour,
contrary,
his

cattle

no

in

for all
his
he secured
the
came,

securing

meanness.
it

easily.

National Library of Australia

T.

Pultun

who

of the
smooth
his
saw

crimson
what
there

scarlet

from

attention
the shore

face

from
to

was

to

appeared

standing

with

piles

red

then

was

suddenl}'

the

deserted,

house

was

because

him

it

was

to his
chased

owing

Anna

.escape.

nor
even
reproach
person
might,
nor
do anything
more
unfriendly
him,
breast
and
than
to hug him
to her ample
while
bath
protests
pant a few laughing
with
of sweets.
the scent
ing him
with
that she event
It was
her sweets
his mistrust
of her.
She
ually
dispelled
made
these
herself
of butter
and sugar
with
and essences
in her kitchen.
It
was
of her mass
these that she had made most

another

from

see,

for

long.
utterly

an

gaped,
think.

At

the

end

astounding

be

.too
young
A blackboy

Yurracumbunga

and

near

too

him

tongue,

the

tho

Publicist

Her

according

was

titled

cally
But

PubllHhlng

Co.

200u

Elizabeth'

hid
who
Street,

when, with
safety,
and a belching
his

a
frightful
of scalding
of horrible
his path.

Thing

face,

dashed
across
unutterable
feeble
as
the plaint
of
was
as
shriek
in
storm.
a
grass-stalk
himself
his wits 'to
find
He recovered
with
throat
on
a rail
and hands
out
lying
and
teeth
stretched
clutching
gravel
He
looked
clenched
on
up,
oily
grass.
dazed.

There

fore him
of Anna's
the tops of

washing
of

of the pearling-fleet
and by
favours
she
her
to
those of them
giving
liked.
These
were
the creaturesNawnim
had been amazed
to see
about him
on
the
his

When

arrival.

them, Anna
an' Chows.

told

he

him

inquired

the}'

were

railway-yards,

the
him
for
walks
through
and down
round
the pearl

ing-stations,

and

took

the

through

town.

that
then,
just
and the
period
when
interesting

without
Sydney,

its

and

steamer

printed

but never
up the jetty,
The Yards
were
quiet
the
'tween-trains
being
was

jetty

not

viewed from
and the
;

by

Htufford

but

indeed,

the

at him
smiling
through
He crawled
out
wari

humpy

palms.
left.
in sight
to
or
Nothing
right
his
When
he looked
at
Anna's again
love for her.
He slow
heart
ached with
to
to
see
rose,
and
rising
glanced
right
ly
Horror
the Thing,
down
rushing
him
black
hair
and white
on
trailing
its
whiskers
about
pounding
billowing
Hanks.
rail.
The
He
over
a
tripped
Thing
at
him.
He echoed
it
with
all
his
yelled
shot to his feet,
raced to the em
might,
ly.

down, fell
pitched
headlong
shot up again;
crashed through
and
his
flesh
scuttling
tearing,
rushed
into the humpy,
birds,
himself
into
the out
and shrieking,
flung
stretched
arms
of Anna.
?'
Whazzer
madder
liddel
man
she
madder
wid
de
crooned.
'Aw
wazzer
now?'
liddle
'myall
his
She hugged him
close and kissed
distorted
him and petted
face and nursed
him till
he could
find
the voice to speak.
'Dible-diblc
'Oh
trice!'
he moaned.
bankment,
in

a heap,
the scrub,
and
crabs

'

dible-dible

Oh

'The

trice!'

jeezon

Call'

Abo

Announcement

Important

This
issue of 'The
Abo
the last
regular
monthly
after
which,
six
months,
will

such time
Association

Until
gressive
footing,
will

susnerid

now

means

to

by
and

preparation
shortly.
As scion
as
the

new

legislation
will

of

a
series
of
the
first
of
CASE
FOR
T. Patten,
is

the

J.

be publish

will

of

Government

Wales
shows
the Aborigines

booklet

ion

of

means

ABORIGINES,

South
wards
a

by

and
booklets,
be entitled
THE

in

ed

Pro

Aborigines

is
on
a
stronger
and
it
financially,
to conduct
our
propa
of a monthly
newspaper.
the
however, to continue

intended,

is

propaganda,
pamphlets
which,
THE

the

as

numerically
be possible

not

It

New
to

intentions

its

of the
by passage
has been,
promised,

that
be issued

the

stating

Aborigines

opin

the

regarding

new

legislation.

In the meantime
and the Officers

President
of

the

Association

gressive
organising
creased

campaign
membership

J.

Street,

Patten

Pro

continue

to

secure

for

an
an

the

'

in

Associa

All
Office,

T.

Aborigines
will

tion.

ed

hevey

be
this
been

public.

town

Prlntcry,

will

of

having

publication
temporarily.
The issue of a regular
monthly Aborig
ines'
financial
Newspaper has involved
of distribut
loss,
owing to the difficulty
and the
ing the paper
among
aborigines

so
nearly
above and
was

Call'
issue

newspaper,
issued
for

the

crews

of

be
roof

terrible

nothing

was

nothing,

now

the steamer
was
length
a
headland,
Nawnim,

There
Japanese.
Law
of the'Land,

the

an
ass.
was
they served
She
earned
her
living
by
clothes
for
the
richer
members

She

was

His

law

day

rail

sought

sound

of the

cause

roar

in

ganda by

Japs

the

and

franchised
and
people,
untroubled
style,
by the
formalities
that
bound
the
rest
of the
be
band
to
which
she legally
belonged,
the police
cause
seem.ed to realize
that,
at least
as
far as she was
the
concerned,

about

to

was

to

with
her own

Asiatic

jetty
He

father

no
diluent
for Aborig
recognised
she
blood
but that of a white
race,
and not
en
a
full-blooded
blackgin
Nawnim
franchise
as
theoreti
to
would
he came
of age.
be when
Anna
did not
care.
She had small

dealings
lived
in
,

the

tired,

blue

as

fore,
inal

steamer.'

When at
den behind

so

nim.

up
the
and

But even
hold
his at
of

one

which

which

Thing.
amazed
said in
'That's

of spotted
of intractabilit}'.

print
Not
Nawnim
misanthropical
of
could
resist
the
motherliness
long
out
he
Anna.
Before
days were
many
love.
was
snuggling
up to her in sheer
Anna
of a lower
caste
than
Naw
was

snatched

jetty,

old blouse
his period

an

even

was

into

ness

to
necessary
determination
him
through
him
mud
and
and brought
mangroves
before
it
to
her
home
occurred
.thrice
a
he
was
what
she
called
a
that
Myall,
wild
creature.
she
The
because
her,
chasing
upset
she
was
also
was
but
fat;
very
very
and did not
thrash
him
as
good-natured

behind a point,
the
high above
like
a
crowded

water,
looking
of long-legged
jabiroos.
did not
amazing
sight

tention

by

Nawnim

residence,
restrain

blooms.

from

lay

On the
when
For,

J.

hands.
had been asleep,
fact that the ship
and leapt
water,

yellow

Jock,

of

Hock
that

was
native
game
or
if
not
then starv
scared
away,
ed away,
the lean times
because,
during
af
the
cattle,
themselves
Dry Season,

for

his

aware

The

listening.

shine

Anna's

Fat

during

away

scared

Published

To

Dible-dible

so
that
he
rapidly,
rapidly
head
flee
and
struck
his
to
leapt
up
the- dung-encrusted
against
undercarriage
such force
as to
knock
him flat.
with
The
The sound
was
now
a thundering.'
into
earth
He dug fingers
very
quaked.
about
to
dart
into -sunearth
and steel,

vapour

but
an
occupied
delightful
playground,
like
a reputed
house a place to be avoided
Therefore
his first
lair
of debil-debils.
in Fat
Anna's
house
few hours'
residence
indeed
were'
not
at all
comfortable;
they
than
were
of
rather
hours
incarceration

exact

Nawnim's

nat

at

Camps

almost
beach

at

interesting
to explain

best

her

white

He

to

countless

did

was
a

approaching

Anna.

him
with
she
sweets,
Having tamed
washed
the operation
him, performing
with
such delicacy
of touch
that he,
en
scarce
gaged with a sugar-filled
pawpaw,
his
realized
what
was
on
below
ly
going
sores
Then
she
dressed
his
and
chin.
and
him
into
his
first
his
hair
cropped
put
which
she had, made
of breeches,
pair

fallen

up

the
Fat

in

named

woman

as

from
the sun
beneath
a
and shelter
cattle-car
that stood
in a silent
rake.
He
unconcern
on
the cool steel
sleeper,
lay
and the
ed about
the grime
he gathered
himself
with
reek
he breathed,
amusing
meat
with
bolt
the
a
slaughtering
rusty
ran
about
him.
ants
that
sound
and sat
Then
he heard
a distant

grinding

of -flesh.

masses

sort,

difficulty

spent.

Bay

Devilfish

on

hall'caste

who

nearly
in
the

a
miniature
of
Pride,
city
hovels
crowded
on
a
barrcn
hill
Then
above the sea.
they passed
the hospital,
then
the Cable
then
Station,
the
then
a
cluster
of neat
Residency,
white
amid
houses
standing
ponciana
blazed
like
torches
under
trees
that

that
their
status
not
of his horses.
He and the many
graziers
like
him excused
their
meanness
by say
useless
the natives
ing that it was
giving
when they did not
understand
the
money
of
value
it.
They took pains to see that
the natives
were
never
it.
taught
a

Jock

sea,

the Nation's
whitewashed

the point of a gun.

Nawnim's
status
and pay would never
be much
than
a native's.
The pay
better
of Jock's
tobacco
and food
natives
was
of

at

humpy

of

care

said
'Thahnk
fervently,
gawd !'
Nawnim
started,
edged away.
into
view
the Compound,
Then
came

rather,

Fit

and clothes

lugger.
spent

which

in

left

one

well

rest

and carried
him, protesting
he was
con
towards
what
He-was
something
frightful.

Calaboose.
Naw
crept
past the'
in wonder
at the buildings
on
stared
felons
hill
and at a gang
of black
working on, the road and at a gang of
from
the cliff.
white
ones
fishing
They
which
was
Meat- works,
passed the great
still
more
because
black,
amazing
painted
was
white.
whereas the Calaboose
They
coasted
was
an
Beach, which
Mailunga

in
running
and
poked
hatchway,

of
should

more
purposeful,
he would
save
native,
Jock the
of
a
The
whiteman.
expense
employing
but
made the 'best of stockriders,
natives
remain
at
could
not
be relied
to
upon
had to track
his black
work. Jock often
staff
down
and bring them back to work

perhaps,
than
a

the
were

of

again

saw

Anna

as

day he wandered
and,
becoming
way-yards,

sick.

came

one.

as(

days

clapped
Then

and

possible

as

stockriders

he became
to

in

place
in which
he would
up
grow
of horses
and cattle
as
ways
of his life.
He would
take

business
to
the saddle
as
work
with
native
them

Nawnim

to

aboard

him

uproariously,
vinced
was

ocean
miniature
of
the
but it was
rendered
Flying Fox
more
the
incomparably
interesting
by
fact
that
two
men
were
bi
pedalling
the
of coconuts.
cycles
through
grove
Nawnim
with
excitement
and
hopped

square

not

was

ed
brief.

was

They

life.
was

Fox,

shame.
Nawnim

One

fly

Goes to Town

nim
the

station
Jock's
miles
inland
from

was

Freedom
Australia

answer.

me

to

me

Nation
its

said

said

it,'

the

the
cloud
of
red
dust
it
was
ra'sing.
Mark
noticed
his interest
and forthwith
to
ordered
the helmsman
hug the shore.
it
was
a
The
just
Thing to
buggy
rushed from the bush.'svvung
Nawnim
into
the beach-road,
ran
with
the
parallel
seen
course.
Nawnim
had never
lugger's
was
amaz
a wheeled
before.
He
vehicle
more
amazed
when
his fath
ed, and still
waved
to
the Thing and received
an
er

you
Jock.
you

while

world
,of
and 'Honesty.

State

The

for

ground
the

that
things
him.
to

of

out

smell
of him.
For
whiteman
sickening
once
the hands of .his
he was
glad when
hold
of him,
true
father
at length
took
out
of that ter
because
lifted
him
they
rible
red presence
and bore him to the
wide
shore.
wide
seiz
He was
about
to
when
Mark

little
Naw
confinement,
Jock's
in the chains
nim
had no need to cower
the first
hour
or
as
he had during
two;
of Jock's
lack
of appetite
and
because
food.
Nawnim
most
of
his
of
got
helping
came
in
At last
the end of the voyage
The Spirit
of the Land
passed in
sight.
and went
to
to
Zodiac
Harbour
slowly
to
Nawnim
wards
the
town,
reyealing
the wonders
of Civilisation.
one
by one
First
wonder
was
an
a
automobile,
of the type called
high-wheeled
waggon
of
the
Motor
the
forerunner
Buggy,
motor-truck.
As the
was
modern
ship
sari
Naw
alone,
making her way under
nim
the strange
in
heard,
thing
roaring,
and saw
the bush long before
he saw
it,

wawnt

reason

Through

in't
many
He chuckl
there
long

gurrl.

some

was
not
popular.
in
had been born
in
to do their
starving

the

hour

every
cabin,

dawn't

yeller-feller

for

till

man's
But

He

who

at

yelling
Five

his
sav

ye

'There

Jock.

added,

enough

if

to

stay
Flying
As soon
as
the machine
was
packed and
he said
that
he was
ready to
stowed,
and
taken
was
Nawnim
captured
go.

day.
of

that

Jock's

were

-starved

him

doon.my

yeller-fellers

self.

as

wi'

do

him,'

life

per
would

by the .thought

up

could

'I

he

it,

troubled

growing

age.

of

But
institution

Compound.

forbidden
Ward
of

in the
middle
and dropped
him
way
coil
of rope.
high
then struggle
heard
the anchor
fall,
cd out
to see
that the lugger
of the coil
vessels
was
several
other
lying
among
of similar
were
peopled with
type, which
creatures
of
human
squat
quaint-visageel
seen
before.
While
a breed
he had never
at these
he was
he was
staring
objects
seized again,
lifted
lower
high in the air,
into
the
ed
with
rapidity
sickening
himself
so
close to his
He found
dinghy.
he
could
smell
the
foster-father
that

the
of

starv

going

became
it,
wrapt,
He
aboard,
dodged
on
concentrated
legs,
to those
devil
too .close
at

staring
bustling

among
scrambling
not
being pushed
devilish
creatures
the
whitemen,
hands
whisked
him
pair of black

domain,
of

or

cattle

been
of

aware

were

Nawnim

even

was,

had

Felix!

of maintaining
Half caste's
in
maintaining
any

fourpence

only
known

would
and

came

to
boasting
and .Manliness

cost

of

second

Most
Aborigines
freedom
preferred
the bush.
And
all
the

Compound

of
the
Compound
where
the necessities

mate

ed,

the

Jock's

penny
or
other

Zodiac.

the
indeed

of
their
alternative

but

the

to

put

eating
for him.

police
land

the

for

so

be

be theii
choice
tiii
shot them.
All
over
where
bone-piled
spots
not
to steal
were
lazy Aborigines
taught
bullocks.
natives
who
whiteman's
For
unable
there-was
the four
were
to work
the

He had thought
whenever
his con
years
of
was
pricked
by the thought
He
growing
up as a savage.
the
Pro
prevented by fear that
that
tector
of Aborigines
might discover
of the child and charge
he was
the father
He
him with
the cost of his maintenance.
Port

in

take possess
This
state
grazing.
affect
the natives
greatly
the
Government
had
so
that
they,
who, unlike
tribal
laws
prevented by

wandering
or

The

the

sending

of doing
science
the boy's
had been

from
would

would

succour,

permanent

of things
would
whose
country
leased
to
Jock,
their
were
game,

work

eh?'
asked
'In
the bulrushes,
Jock,
and winked
at
Chook.
his
Mark
blinked/fingered
glass.
of
true
that
he had
It
was
thought
Native
Coin
Nawnim
to
the

pound

of all

ing

mine,

really

found

ion

was

matter

of sendin'
he's not

He

Compound.

as

thinkin'

was

for

hard put

answered

correspondence
to

the
209a
Chipponiliilo,

should

Association,
Elizabeth

at

Street,

be address
Head
the

Sydney.

N.S.W,

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