Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

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

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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

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

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1064 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V changing, and that there was now a different regard for the interest of natives, which would justify the Secretary of State in leaving to the people of the Colony the fullest rights in the matter. This accordingly was done by a Colonial Act. It cannot be said that the treatment of the aborigines, as described in the reports of the Protector of Aborigines in the Colony, has been very satisfactory since the Colonial Govern- ment took over their management ; but it would be equally impossible to say that it has been less satisfactory than it; was originally. The difficulties, indeed, are not such as any Government can pretend to be able to dispose of in a day. They rest in the habits of the aborigines and the nature of the white population. Exploring expeditions have often ill-treated natives, and the legal procedure of handcuffing natives and conveying them miles to prison has resulted in many abuses. Fortunately a new departure was made in 1910 by the Government in the direction of providing large reserves with cattle for the aborigines who are thus, if they so desire, able to live on the land allotted to them with their herds of cattle, instead of making depredations on the herds belonging to the white population. Unhappily here, as in the West of Australia, the aborigines appear un- likely to make any progress towards modern civilization. In Western Australia, the northern territory of Australia, and in Queensland, the aborigine is debarred entirely from the franchise, but he shares his disability along with Asiatics,! Africans, and natives of the Western Pacific. and sven the Maoris. In 1905.a valuable Act was passed which made provision for the protection, in many respects, of the aborigines, and there can be no doubt that the prospects of that population are much better now than they were formerly. Food and clothes are provided for indigent and infirm natives ; they are protected against ill-treatment and fraud by their employers. In 1911 the Act was amended to extend the powers of the Protector over half-caste children, to enable them to be ' See above, Part III, chap. vi. He has still a freehold qualification for bhe Legislative Council of Western Australia.

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