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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08485-8 — Taking Liberty Ann Curthoys , Jessie Mitchell Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08485-8 — Taking Liberty Ann Curthoys , Jessie Mitchell Index More Information Index Aboriginal cricket team, 284 Adelaide Chronicle, 96 Aboriginal Evidence Act 1840 (WA), 135 Adelaide River settlement, 352–53 Aboriginal Evidence Act 1846 (SA), 135 agriculture, 307 Aboriginal missions. See missions Albert (Prince of Wales) Aboriginal people. See Indigenous people celebrations to mark his marriage, 280–83 Aboriginal policy gifts from Kulin nation, 281 Britain. See British Aboriginal policy Alexandra (Princess), gift from Kulin nation, colonies. See headings for each colony e.g. 281 Queensland — Aboriginal policy Alfred (Prince, Duke of Edinburgh) Aboriginal Protection Act 1869 (Vic), 286 Aboriginal people banned from Victorian Aboriginal Protection Association, 386 towns during visit, 285–86 Aboriginal reserves. See reserves attempted assassination in Sydney, 310 Aborigines Protection Act 1886 (WA), cricket match for, 310 391–92, 396 grand corroboree in Sydney, 310 Aborigines Protection Board (WA), 392, 395, meeting with Oyster Cove residents, 259 396, 402, 403 meeting with residents of Point McLeay Aborigines Protection Society (APS) (NSW), mission and surrounding districts, 78, 80, 81, 138 355–57 Aborigines Protection Society (APS) (UK), 9, royal tour of Australian colonies, 251 22, 92, 135, 393 visit to Queensland, 331–33 Aboriginal policy and representative gov- visit to Western Australia, 363 ernment in Australia, 177 Allan, John McMahon, 278, 279 amalgamation policy, 238 Allbrook, Malcolm, 363 debate over colonial constitutions, 237 Allen, George, 193 frontier violence in Queensland, 239 Allen, Jack, 149 impact of convictism, 166 Allison, William Race, 203, 264 imperial control over Aboriginal policy, 115 Allport, Morton, 260 New Zealand self-government, 215 amalgamation/assimilation theory, 117–19 protection of Canadian Indians, 109–11 Angas, George Fife, 338, 342 recognition of Maori rights, 175 Angas, George French, 309 rights of Aboriginal people, 12 Angelo, E. F., 390 settler criticisms of, 144 Annan, William, 137 and slavery controversy in Western Anthropological Society, 247 Australia, 389–90 anti-slavery movement, 105 Aborigines’ Friends’ Association (AFA), 338, anti-transportation movement 339, 341, 353 and campaign for responsible government, Acheron station, 277 162–64 Act to Provide for the Better Government of success of, 173 South Australia (1842), 125, 160 views on Aboriginal-settler relations, Act to Regulate the Execution of Criminals 164–71 1861 (SA), 348 apolgy to Indigenous Australians, 409 Adams, Charles V., 303 Apsley mission, 90 Adams, Thomas, 189 Archer brothers, 143 413 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08485-8 — Taking Liberty Ann Curthoys , Jessie Mitchell Index More Information 414 Index Arden, George, 84, 131 Benbow (Boonwurrung man), 192 Arendt, Hannah, 11 Bendyshe, Thomas, 247 Argus (newspaper), 275 Bennett, Mary, 328 Arnold, Thomas, 265 Bentham, Jeremy, 44, 45 Arthur, George Berry, Alexander, 193 as Governor of Upper Canada, 108 Berry, R. J. A., 261 as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen’s Bethesda mission, 331 Land, 9, 29–30, 40–43, 60, 69, 71 Big River people, 40, 41, 42, 65 recommendations regarding Protectorate, 73 Bigambul people, 200 Arthur, Mary Ann, 149, 248, 258, 259, 260 Bigge reports, 35 Arthur, Walter George (Ben Lomond man), Bigge, John Thomas, 35 13, 66, 149, 150, 151, 264 Billibellary (Woiwurrung man), 187, 274 assimilation policy, 136 Bingham, Henry, 139 assimilation/amalgamation theory, 117–19 Biraban (Awabakal man), 37, 39 Attwood, Bain, 55, 60, 284 Black Line of Tasmania, 41 Australasian Chronicle, 124 Black War of Southern Queensland, 142 Australia Felix, 52 Black Wars Australian (newspaper), 77, 83, 106, 113 Black Line of Tasmania, 41 Australian colonial historiography Black War of Southern Queensland, 142 division within, 1–6 in Tasmania, 40–41 on anti-transportation movement, 163 Black, J. K., 331 treatment of Aboriginal matters, 4–6 Black, Niel, 278 Australian Colonies Government Act 1850, Blakewell, William, 341 155, 173–79, 216 Bland, Revett (or Rivett) Henry, 99, Australian Constitutions Act 1842, 125 101, 202 Australian Courts Act 1828, 37, 62 Bland, William, 288 Australian Patriotic Association, 62, 63, 103, Blaxland, John, 76 107, 109, 125 Bligh, John O’Connell, 321, 323 Auty, Kate, 79 Bligh, William, 34, 123 Awabakal people, 38, 57, 90, 182 Blight, William, 319 Board for the Protection of the Aborigines, Backhouse, James, 57 286 Baggama (Wiradjuri man), 64 Board to Watch over the Interests of the Bagot Commission, 137 Aborigines, 284–86 Bagot, Charles, 137 Bonwick, James Baker, John, 342, 356 on British instructions to governors, 13 Baldwin, Robert, 158 on Governor Denison, 205 Ballantyne, Tony, 10 on Indigenous survivors of warfare, 43 Banks, Joseph, 32 interest in Indigneous Tasmanians, 248 Bannister, Saxe, 45–47, 60, 68, 71, 105, 116, The Last of the Tasmanians, 248–50, 260 118 on Oyster Cove Aboriginal settlement, 204, Barak, William (Woiwurrung man), 278, 281 205, 258 Barkly, Henry, 280, 283 on transfer of Flinders Islanders to Port Barlee, Frederick, 367, 369 Phillip, 79 Barrow, Henry, 338 on William Lanney, 257, 259 Barrow, Peter, 99 Boonwurrung people, 55, 146, 192 Barwick, Diane, 55, 192, 271, 280, 283 Border Police, 86, 146, 147 Bass Strait islanders. See Furneaux Botany Bay penal settlement, occupation of Islanders land, 32–33 Batman treaty, 55, 64 Boucher, Leigh, 285, 286, 287 Batman, John, 55, 187, 281 Bourke, Richard, 51, 55, 106, 115 Bearringa (Daungwurrung man), 274 Aboriginal policy, 54, 56 Beedon, Lucy, 19, 264, 265, 267 annexation of Port Phillip district, 55 Behrendt, Larissa, 16 on political representation, 62, 63 Ben Lomond people, 65 recognition of squatters’ rights, 53 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08485-8 — Taking Liberty Ann Curthoys , Jessie Mitchell Index More Information Index 415 Bowen, Diamantina, 314 Prince Alfred. See Alfred (Prince, Duke of Bowen, George, 243, 244, 314, 316, 320, 330 Wales) Boyce, James, 80, 223 Princess Alexandra, 281 Boyd, Benjamin, 168 Queen Victoria. See Victoria (Queen) Brett, Andre, 240 British North America Act 1840 (Union Act), Brisbane, Thomas, 40 113, 158 British Aboriginal policy Brock, Peggy, 94, 336 amalgamation/assimilation theory, 117–19 Bromley, Walter, 92, 93 assimilation policy, 136 Broome, Frederick Napier, 374, 386, 390, 401 Australia before 1830, 31–38 Aboriginal policy, 376–84, 387, 391, 392, in Canada, 119, 176 395 colonisation and, 43–47 conlict with Onslow, 394 costs and funding, 136 and self-government for WA, 394–96, 399 and destruction of Indigenous societies, Broome, Richard, 146, 200, 283, 284, 286 19–20, 410–12 Brough Smyth, Robert, 281, 285 equal treatment before the law, 96, 174, Brougham, Henry Peter (1st Baron), 106 202, 203 Broughton, William Grant, 68, 76, 77 evangelical humanitarianism and, 9, 58–61 Brown, Joan, 263 imperial control over colonial legislatures, Brown, Maitland, 373, 378, 388 70–71, 131 Browne, Thomas Gore, 240, 241, 258, 259, legal practices adapted to frontier situations, 267 202 Brownrigg, Marcus, 265 and pastoral expansion (1831–4), 53–58 Bruce, James (8th Earl of Elgin), 158, 176 protection. See protection of Aborigines Brune, Thomas, 66 self-government and, 114–19 Bruny Island people, 42 transfer of control to colonies, 208, 220, Bruny, Davy, 149 235, 237, 240 Buller, Charles, 45, 104, 109, 111, 115, 125, British Association for the Advancement of 128, 156 Science, 273 Bulwer Lytton, Edward, 240, 302, 326 British colonisation Bumsted, J. M., 108 decline of indigenous peoples in wake of, Bunce, Daniel, 285 248–50 Buntingdale mission, 183 imperial control over land, 64, 128, 217 bunyip aristocracy, 227–28 liberal opposition to, 44 Burke, Edmund, 11 liberal support for, 44–45 Burruppin (Daungwurrung man), 274 and native policy, 43–47 Burt, Septimus, 392, 397 and protection of Aborigines, 58–61 Burton, William, 81 as source of shame to Britain, 59 Bush, Edward, 374 Whig enthusiasm for, 48–53, 109 Buxton, Edward, 215 Whig opposition to, 44 Buxton, Thomas Fowell, 59, 67, 109 British imperial history historical denialism, 410 Cahir, Fred, 210 and modern British historical conscious- Calder, James Erskine, 67 ness, 410–12 Campbell, Alexander J., 330 native policy and colonial self-government, Canada 2–4 assimilation policy, 242 new imperial history, 6–10 Bagot Commission, 137 British imperialism, as God’s will, 207 British Aboriginal policy, 119, 176 British military protection, 172–73 control over Indigenous policy, 242 British monarchy Legislative Assemblies, 108 celebrations associated with, 280 protection of Indigenous people, 109–11 Indigenous people’s connection with, rebellion against the British authorities, 250–51, 282, 311, 333, 355 108 King Charles II, 47 representative government, 34 Prince Albert. See Albert (Prince of Wales) responsible government, 158, 159 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08485-8 — Taking Liberty Ann Curthoys , Jessie Mitchell Index More Information 416 Index Cape Colony appointment, 53 Bourke’s governorship, 54 assistance to Native Police, 292 convict transportation, 162, 215 powers and role, 86 imperial native policy, 46, 59, 67 and proposal for Aboriginal reserves, 191 new constitution, 219, 228 squatters’ opposition to, 130 representative government, 215–16 Connors, Libby,
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