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1 1 y separately published work icon Changing Skin Colour in Australia : Herbert Basedow and the Black Caucasian Heidi Zogbaum , North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2010 12380273 2010 single work biography

Adelaide resident Dr Herbert Basedow,  a geologist, doctor, M.P., and anthropologist. unwittingly provided the authors and administrators of the White Australia policy with a method of 'breeding out the colour', of Aborigines into the white-settler society. His studies had convinced him that Aborigines were 'the racial ancestors of Europeans, that they were black Caucasians, and therefore Aboriginal features disappeared for good after three or four generations of intermarriage with Europeans.

 
1 9 y separately published work icon Kisch in Australia : The Untold Story Heidi Zogbaum , Melbourne : Scribe , 2004 Z1158293 2004 single work biography
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