Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

Bibliographic data

Multivolume work

Identifikator:: 1896933912

Document type:: Multivolume work

Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Volume

Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

Document type:: Volume

Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Multivolume work

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Part V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter III. The treatment of native races

Collection:: Economics Books

1062 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V been very defective, only £1,400 being spent on the natives there in 1909. Moreover, legislation has been hampered by the prospect of the transfer of the territory to the Com- monwealth of Australia, which has now been accomplished, but a Bill was introduced into the Parliament in 1910 making elaborate provision for the safety of the aborigines in the state proper, and their prevention from obtaining drink, and protecting them against illegal and unsatisfactory treatment.) That Bill was dropped to be reintroduced in 1911, but an elaborate Bill regarding the Northern Terri- tories natives became law as Act No. 1024 and the Common- wealth promises an active policy. In Queensland the aborigines are quite an important section of the people, and many of them are employed in the pearling industry. There is a department entrusted under Acts of 1897 (No. 17) and 1902 (No. 1) with the protection of abori- gines, which looks after them when destitute, and endeavours to secure that suitable lands are placed at their disposal. The expenditure in 1909 was £13,200 for 20,000 natives. In Western Australia matters have been different. During the discussions which preceded responsible government it was laid down by the Governor, Sir F. N. apier Broome, and accepted by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, as an essential arrangement that the control of aborigines should be entrusted to a Board, which had been created in 1886, and that this Board should remain under the Governor independent of all control by the Government? The arrangement was naturally not very acceptable to the people of the Colony, whose inability to manage their affairs in this regard was thereby proclaimed. But it was inevitable that the steps should be taken at the time, for there had been too many cases of flagrant disregard of justice in the treat- ment of natives; the natives were often without lands. and ' House of Assembly Debates, 1910, pp. 647 seq., 673 seq., 696 seq., 709, 721. The annual reports of the Protectors of Aborigines in Victoria, Queensland, and Western Australia give full information as to natives there ; see also Queensland Parliamentary Debates, 1910, pp. 1032 seq., 1610 seq. 2 Parl. Pap., C. 5743.

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

Multivolume work

Volume

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Volume

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation