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The Stolen Generations: a Documentary Collection THE STOLEN GENERATIONS: A DOCUMENTARY COLLECTION This documentary collection was assembled before the debate at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival on September 3 2006 on the question of the stolen generations. For several years Andrew Bolt has been informing his readers in the Melbourne Herald Sun that the claim that between 1900 and 1970 thousands of mixed descent aboriginal children were removed from their mothers, families and communities involuntarily and without justifiable cause for racist reasons is an un-Australian, left- wing myth. This collection is based on a selection of documents in government archives and some representative testimonies from those who experienced the removals directly. Its purpose is to allow those attending the debate to assess Bolt’s claim. Robert Manne, September 3 2006 CONTENTS: A. How Many Separations? ....................................................................1 How Many were Separated from Natural Family, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1994....................................2 B. Queensland...........................................................................................6 Extracts from Dr W E Roth’s “Progress Reports” (Aboriginal Protector, North Queensland) ...............................................................................................................7 Case of Walter..........................................................................................................14 (i) Dr Walter E Roth, Northern Protector of Aboriginals, Queensland, to D. Graham, Protector, Townsville, February 17, 1903.............................................14 (ii) Dr Walter E. Roth, Northern Protector of Aborigines, Queensland to Under Secretary, Department of Public Lands, June 8 1903.........................................15 (iii) William Craig, Cardwell, to Home Secretary, Brisbane, August 18 1903. .16 (iv) M. Matthews, Cardwell to Dr. Roth, Northern Protector of Aborigines, November 27, 1903..............................................................................................17 (v) William Craig, Cardwell, to Home Secretary, Queensland Government, 18 July 1904..............................................................................................................18 (vi) William Craig, Cardwell, to Chief Inspector of Aboriginals, Brisbane, 6th September, 1904. .................................................................................................21 From Annual Report to the Chief Protector of Aboriginals, Dr Walter E. Roth, 1905..........................................................................................................................24 The Problem of the Half-Caste ................................................................................29 (i) Gall Memorandum .........................................................................................29 (ii) Letter to W J Gall...........................................................................................33 From Ruth Hegarty, Is That You Ruthie, University of Queensland Press, 1999...35 C. Northern Territory ...........................................................................43 Northern Territory Removals Policy and Practice...................................................44 (i) Letter from S J Mitchell .................................................................................44 (ii) 1918 Ordinance.............................................................................................46 (iii) Extract of letter from Dr Cecil Cook, Chief Protector of Aborigines, Northern Territory, to Rev. W. Morley, April 28, 1931 ......................................48 (iv) From N T Administrator, Telegram to Department of Interior, Canberra, 26 October 1932...................................................................................................50 (v) Common Law Office to Mr S Irvine, Mail Contractor, Newcastle Waters, 14 February 1933. ................................................................................................51 (vi) Extract of letter from Aborigines’ Friends Association, Adelaide ..............53 * Lettergram from J. A. Carrodus, May 18, 1933...........................................55 * Deputy Administrator of the Northern Territory, V. G. Carrington, to the Secretary, Department of the Interior, Canberra, 22 May 1933 ......................56 (vii) From a correspondent in the Territory, 23 July 1933 .................................57 (viii) Letter to J. A. Perkins, Minister of Interior, from Mrs Griffiths, Cherry Cot, Croydon, Victoria, 20 July 1934..................................................................59 (ix) Report on the Northern Territory by J. A. Carrodus....................................61 Breeding Out the Colour..........................................................................................64 (i) Letter from C. E. Cook...................................................................................64 (ii) Memorandum from J. A. Carrodus ...............................................................66 (iii) Memorandum from J. A. Carrodus..............................................................67 i His Honour the Administrator, Northern Territory, Memorandum, January 4, 1950 ..................................................................................................................................69 From Bob Randall, Songman, ABC Books (2003) .................................................73 From John Moriarty, Saltwater Fella, Viking, 2000................................................80 D. Western Australia .............................................................................84 Western Australian Removals Policy and Practice..................................................85 (i) James Isdell, Travelling Protector, Kimberleys, to Charles F. Gale, Chief Protector of Aborigines, Western Australia, 1909...............................................85 (ii) Chief Protector of Aborigines, Western Australia, Charles F. Gale, to the Commissioner of Police, May 10 1909................................................................86 (iii) Chief Protector of Aborigines, A. O. Neville, to Secretary, Department of Aborigines and Fisheries, 27 June 1916. .............................................................87 (iv) Commissioner of Police to Chief Protector of Aborigines, A.O. Neville, May 16 1919. .......................................................................................................88 (v) Chief Protector of Aborigines, A.O. Neville, to the Commissioner of Police, May 22 1919. .......................................................................................................88 (vi) Inspector Drewry, District Police Office, Broome, to Officer in Charge of Police, Derby, 23 July 1919.................................................................................89 (vii) Inspector O. Drewry, Derby, to the Commissioner of Police, Perth, August 14 1919.................................................................................................................89 * R. Connell, Commissioner of Police, to the Chief Protector of Aborigines, A. O. Neville, September 26 1919...................................................................90 * Chief Protector of Aborigines, A.O. Neville, to R. Connell, Commissioner of Police, October 9 1919. ...............................................................................90 (viii) Constable John McClay to Sergeant Crowe, Derby (W.A.), December 26 1919......................................................................................................................91 (ix) Sergeant Crowe to Inspector Drewry, December 27, 1919. .........................92 (x) Deputy Chief Protector of Aborigines to The Superintendent, Moore River Native Settlement, Mogumber, February 25 1920...............................................92 (xi) Chief Protector of Aborigines, A.O. Neville, to the Commissioner of Police, July 14 1921.........................................................................................................93 (xii) Chief Protector of Aborigines, A.O.Neville, to the Commissioner of Police, December 13 1922. ..............................................................................................94 Speech to the Legislative Assembly, WA, 1934......................................................95 J. D. Moseley, Royal Commissioner into Aborigines in Western Australia to His Excellency the Honourable Sir James Mitchell, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Governor in and over the State of Western Australia and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, April 19, 1934.........................................................102 Statement by Mrs Mary Bennett to the Moseley Royal Commission, 19 March 1934........................................................................................................................105 From speech delivered by A. O. Neville, the Western Australian Administrator, to the Initial Conference of Commonwealth and State Aboriginal Administrators, held in Canberra in April 1937. .....................................................................................110 From Margaret Morgan, Mt. Margaret: A Drop in a Bucket, Murundoo, 1986...114 From Doris Pilkington, Rabbit Proof Fence, University of Queensland Press, 1996 ................................................................................................................................123
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