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'The 1950s in Western Australia was a time of radical reform in the way the government addressed the Aboriginal people living within its borders. Adrian Day was a Native Acts officer during this time. He was a young man with noble intent. He travelled throughout the state, trying to administer the Native Administration Act and seeing from experience all the ineptitudes it contained. A very young man with noble intent, a lack of maturity and no training whatsoever sent out by government to deal with what it sees as a disintegrating and dying race. It is about the ineptitude of government in dealing with a giant problem the average citizens, if they concern themselves at all, think is being attended to by experts. That within some grand plan there are dove-tailed notions which will bring about a solution, if not now, then at some stage in the future. To confound government the race does not die nor does it quite disintegrate. Politics, prejudice, greed, apathy and indifference play their part. However there is enough conscience, courage and integrity, here and there, to provide in the awakening years just after World War II, the seed for dramatic change.' Source: Libraries Australia. (Sighted 02/03/2011).