Governing Savages

Governing Savages

ISBN: 0044421508

ISBN 13: 9780044421504

Author: Andrew Markus

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This provocative study breaks new ground. It argues that, in a period dominated by the white Australia ideal, the nation's political leaders were content to allow disease and malnutrition, as well as punitive police raids, to ravage the Aboriginal population of the Northern Territory, and that for decades there was a failure to provide funding to implement publicly announced policies. Written for a general readership, Governing Savages explains how such a state of affairs could arise and be tolerated in a professedly humane society. The result of almost a decade of research by one of the leading scholars in the field of Australian race relations, the book analyzes the attitudes of pastoralists, missionaries, administrators, judges, and politicians and of those—including Aboriginal leaders—seeking to awaken the conscience of Australians and bring to an end generations of brutality and callous indifference.



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