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End of an era : aboriginal labour in the Northern Territory

Title
End of an era : aboriginal labour in the Northern Territory / Ronald M. Berndt & Catherine H. Berndt.
Author
Berndt, Ronald M. (Ronald Murray), 1916-1990.
Publication
Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Berndt, Catherine H. (Catherine Helen), 1918-1994.
  • Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Description
xx, 310 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
Retrospective analysis of survey of Aboriginal labour on cattle stations, Army Aboriginal Settlements, 1944-46; stations, all owned by Australian Investment Agency (Vesteys), include Wave Hill, Waterloo, Limbunya, Birrundudu, Gordon Downs, Manbulloo, Willeroo; Army Settlements include Katherine Civil Settlement, Manbulloo Army settlement; also Daly River region; inadequacy of diet, starvation; inadequate supplies of drinking, washing water, shelter, educational, medical facilities; infant mortality, birth rate; sexual relations, white men, Aboriginal women; labour recruitment, remuneration; costs to stations for food, clothing, sundries supplied to Aborigines; conduct of white staff, Aboriginal attitudes; responses to report, recommendations.
Subject
  • Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Northern Territory > History
  • Aboriginal Australians > Employment > History. > Australia > Northern Territory
  • Cattle trade > Australia > Northern Territory > History
  • Defence - Armed forces - Veterans
  • Water supply
  • Costume and clothing
  • Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Beef cattle
  • Demography - Birth rate
  • Health status - Nutrition
  • Health services
  • Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
  • Race relations
  • Attitudes - Indigenous attitudes
  • Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
  • Sex relations
  • Health status - Child health - Infants
  • Socioeconomic conditions - Living conditions
  • 73.30 economic conditions of existence: general (ethnology)
  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Aboriginal Australians > Employment
  • Cattle trade
  • Arbeiter
  • Beschäftigung
  • Labour
  • Aborigines
  • Aborigènes d'Australie
  • Iwi taketake
  • Geschichte 1944-1945
  • Daguragu / Kalkaringi / Wave Hill (Central NT SE52-08)
  • Birrindudu (Central NT SE52-11)
  • Kundat Djaru / Gordon Downs (WA East Kimberley SE52-10)
  • Katherine (NT Top End SD53-09)
  • Manbulloo (NT Top End SD53-09)
  • Willeroo (North NT SD52-16)
  • Waterloo (Central NT SE52-03)
  • Daly Waters (North NT SE53-01)
  • Limbunya (Central NT SE52-07)
  • Northern Territory
  • Northern Territory
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Includes indexes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 301-305.
ISBN
  • 0855751754
  • 9780855751753
LCCN
88116368
OCLC
  • ocm16936731
  • 16936731
  • SCSB-1186886
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library