• News Article

The Treatment of Aborigines

Publication Resource Details

  • In

    Western Mail

  • Publication Date

    14 October 1905

  • Publisher

    Charles Harper, J.W. Hackett, James Gibey, for the Western mail office

  • Place Published

    Perth

  • Page Numbers

    44

  • URL

  • Description

    This article, from The Western Mail in 1905 quotes from Chief Protector of Aborigines, Henry Prinsep's annual report for that year. Prinsep uses the annual report to respond to the findings and allegations of the Roth royal commission into the 'condition' of Indigenous people in the State. Topics reported in the article include money wages; labour by contract; police system; distribution of relief; native reserves; firearms; and relations between the Chief Protector and the royal commissioner.

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