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Too white to be regarded as Aborigines: An historical analysis of policies for the protection of Aborigines and the assimilation of Aborigines of mixed descent, and the role of Chief Protectors of Aborigines in the formulation and implementation of those policies, in Western Australia from 1898 to 1940
Derrick Tomlinson University of Notre Dame Australia
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Publication Details Tomlinson, D. (2008). Too white to be regarded as Aborigines: An historical analysis of policies for the protection of Aborigines and the assimilation of Aborigines of mixed descent, and the role of Chief Protectors of Aborigines in the formulation and implementation of those policies, in Western Australia from 1898 to 1940 (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)). University of Notre Dame Australia. http://researchonline.nd.edu.au/theses/7
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A handbook issued to American servicemen stationed in Australia between 1942 and 1945 described the western and central parts of the Australian continent as, ‘dry land, bare of people, except for the roaming tribes of ‘Abos’’.1 Perth