Add to ORKGCattle-graziers, miners, missionaries and police brought immense changes to the lives of Aboriginal people in remote parts of North Queensland. Of these groups, police held the greatest power, often removing people to distant missions and reserves as ‘punishment’ for actions that allowed continued survival ‘on country’. In 1933, journalists wrote about removals in the Coen district, drawing the attention of senior police and public servants. When fire destroyed a police building at Coen soon afterwards all three police officers stationed there were quickly transferred. Archival files reveal the full story of this episode
In 1992, a young Aboriginal officer of the National Parks authority was entrusted with a casket cont...
It is important that we understand the legacy of Australia' s history, us it helps to explain the de...
Although historians have provided substantial insights into the structure, development and activitie...
In the nineteenth century, because of their superior knowledge of the bush and their ability to tr...
correspondent. While I was in Kununurra, the family of a young Aboriginal man who had died in Broome...
In the 1930s Australia was stunned by a series of seemingly inexplicable murders of non –aboriginal ...
Over the past two decades, archaeologists have explored aspects of Indigenous agency to better encom...
It is a common assumption among many Australian historians that frontier violence between Aboriginal...
Perhaps nowhere in Australia have working and living conditions for Aborigines been so bad as on Nor...
In April 1858 a Native Police detachment of eight troopers led by their white officer Lieutenant Wil...
2There is a tendency for those who are the victors to write history to suit their own purpose. We wo...
On 30 June 1875 at the Roper River, a telegraph worker from Daly Waters had been killed, and his two...
From 1901 until 1968 the Commonwealth bureaucracy essentially ran the Northern Territory. The way th...
Arthur J. Vogan's work, aided by ongoing controversy over the activities of the Native Mounted Polic...
© 1986 Dr. Marie Hansen FelsGood men and true is the phrase used by the Commandant of the 1842 Corps...
In 1992, a young Aboriginal officer of the National Parks authority was entrusted with a casket cont...
It is important that we understand the legacy of Australia' s history, us it helps to explain the de...
Although historians have provided substantial insights into the structure, development and activitie...
In the nineteenth century, because of their superior knowledge of the bush and their ability to tr...
correspondent. While I was in Kununurra, the family of a young Aboriginal man who had died in Broome...
In the 1930s Australia was stunned by a series of seemingly inexplicable murders of non –aboriginal ...
Over the past two decades, archaeologists have explored aspects of Indigenous agency to better encom...
It is a common assumption among many Australian historians that frontier violence between Aboriginal...
Perhaps nowhere in Australia have working and living conditions for Aborigines been so bad as on Nor...
In April 1858 a Native Police detachment of eight troopers led by their white officer Lieutenant Wil...
2There is a tendency for those who are the victors to write history to suit their own purpose. We wo...
On 30 June 1875 at the Roper River, a telegraph worker from Daly Waters had been killed, and his two...
From 1901 until 1968 the Commonwealth bureaucracy essentially ran the Northern Territory. The way th...
Arthur J. Vogan's work, aided by ongoing controversy over the activities of the Native Mounted Polic...
© 1986 Dr. Marie Hansen FelsGood men and true is the phrase used by the Commandant of the 1842 Corps...
In 1992, a young Aboriginal officer of the National Parks authority was entrusted with a casket cont...
It is important that we understand the legacy of Australia' s history, us it helps to explain the de...
Although historians have provided substantial insights into the structure, development and activitie...