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Eugenics, Capricornia-Style : Chief Protector Dr Cecil Cook single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Eugenics, Capricornia-Style : Chief Protector Dr Cecil Cook
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    y separately published work icon Brass Discs, Dog Tags & Finger Scanners Brass Discs, Dog Tags and Finger Scanners : The Apology and Aboriginal Protection in the Northern Territory 1863-1972 Stephen Gray , Darwin : Charles Darwin University Press , 2011 Z1839079 2011 single work criticism 'Is the history of Aboriginal 'protection' essentially something to be celebrated, albeit with some well-intentioned mistakes? Or is white treatment of Aboriginal people, as Justice Brennan commented in the Mabo case, a 'legacy of unutterable shame'? Was self-determination an excuse for avoiding responsibility, as some have claimed? And in pursuing the Northern Territory Emergency Response, are we just repeating the mistakes of the past - using brass discs and dog tags to 'protect' Aboriginal people from themselves?

    The purpose of this book is to assess these questions by looking at Northern Territory policy towards Aboriginal people from 1863 to the beginning of 'self-determination' in 1972. It looks closely at men like Baldwin Spencer, Cecil Cook and Harry Giese, assessing them in light of recent public debates about frontier violence, sexual abuse of Aboriginal women and children, and the Stolen Generations.' (Publisher's blurb)
         Darwin : Charles Darwin University Press , 2011     pg. 61-90
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