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.
















Quarterly Report on Northern Territory


Book Description

Reporting mainly on economic enterprise in N.T., mostly pastoral and mining; pastoralists; gold, tin, copper, silver mining; report: Aug. 12, 1884, p. 9, mention of non-violent encounter with "natives" involves tracking, exchange of goods, Indigenous knowledge exchange concerning climate and weather in relation to land suitable for agriculture; reports mention Ernest Favenc.