AUSTIN, Tony

I Can Picture the Old Home So Clearly. The Commonwealth and 'Half-caste' Youth in the Northern Territory, 1911-1939

Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1993.

Small quarto, xii (last blank), 280 pages with numerous illustrations.

Colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy.

'A history of child welfare in the Northern Territory as it affected Aboriginal children in the period to the Second World War [discussing] the development of government policy ... including a remarkable attempt, in the 1930s, at ethnic cleansing through biological assimilation in the North' (rear cover).

Item #128687

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