Filled with stories of massacres and murders, of working life on cattle stations, of friendships and foes, of bureaucratic machinations, and the individual struggles of Aboriginal Australians, this book unleashes the concealed and hidden ...
Aboriginal population 1788-1976 ; place of Aborigines in NT politics ; map with reserves ; Aboriginal population centres and pastoral leases ; Aboriginal ordinances and laws ; assimilation ; employment ; land rights ; local government.
This revised edition of the Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography brings together the entries from the original three volumes, published in 1990, 1992 and 1996.
Based on union and pastoralists' records, this book is a comprehensive account of the events that produced the legends and offers many challenges to the historiography of the 1890s.