Government Residents Report on Northern Territory


Book Description

Closing Rapid Creek Mission, New Reserve planned for Daly River; Successful land cultivation.




Government Resident's Report on Northern Territory ...


Book Description

Annual reporting mainly on economic enterprise in N.T., mostly pastoral and mining; pastoralists; trading accounts; reports have sections headed "Aborigines": expressions of social Darwinist views of the period, racial attitudes, employment - labour market, demography, diseases; opium; animals, Botanical Gardens reports, plant lists; Roman Catholic Missions reports; pearling; periodic reports on Government resident explorations or trips incl. Melville Island (1887), Alligator Rivers (1894) - trackers, rock art, accounts of contact.




The Government of the Northern Territory


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Aboriginal population 1788-1976 ; place of Aborigines in NT politics ; map with reserves ; Aboriginal population centres and pastoral leases ; Aboriginal ordinances and laws ; assimilation ; employment ; land rights ; local government.




The Murranji Track


Book Description

For almost a century, drovers moved cattle along the Murranji Track, despite scarce water, jungle-like scrub and its reputation as the Death Track. In this well-researched, detailed book Lewis provides the definitive account of the track, from the time of the Aborigines and early explorers, to its opening by the legendary Bluey Buchanan.




Records


Book Description

Letters from officials and residents of the Northern Territory to the Government Resident and official reports and correspondence from Government employees. There are also letters from the Minister controlling the Territory to the Government Resident. The records were transferred to the Northern Territory Archives Service from the Public Record Office of South Australia in 1988.




The Other Side of the Frontier


Book Description

The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. Describes in meticulous and compelling detail the ways in which Aborigines responded to the arrival of Europeans.