COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA NORTHERN TERRITORY MEDICAL SERVICE DARWIN 11th December 1933 His Honour, The Administrator of the Northern Territory, DARWIN WARRAMUNGA ABORIGINAL RESERVE, TENNANTS CREEK With reference to telegram from Department of the Interior dated 4th December, 1933. I have to advise that I have already submitted my views on the matter of the proposed […]
Cook proposes a definite and progressive Aboriginal Policy [EN 5/12]
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA NORTHERN TERRITORY ADMINISTRATION, Aboriginal Branch, DARWIN 7th October, 1935 His Honour, The Administrator of the Northern Territory, DARWIN. Probably no phase of Commonwealth policy in the administration of the Northern Territory is beset with so many and so diverse problems and exposed to so much rancorous and conflicting criticism, from individuals and […]
State and Commonwealth Funding of Aboriginal Protection
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIANORTHERN TERRITORY ADMINISTRATION, DARWIN30th December 1935 His HonourThe Administrator of the Northern Territory, Darwin I am in receipt of the October issue of the Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines Friend, a publication of the .Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society of London. On Page 120 of this issue there is published copy of a letter […]
Procedure for Adopting the Progressive Policy [EN5/16]
His Honour the Administrator Further to my memorandum of the 7th October, 1935, I submit herewith details of the procedure recommended to be adopted in respect of the Darwin district. To recapitulate, the ultimate objective of the policy recommended is the conversion of the detribalised aboriginal in town districts from a social incubus to a […]
Aboriginal Protection Authorities Conference, 1937 [EN5/19]
– Cook’s comments after introductory remarks p13-14 I shall refer, first, to the advance made in connexion with the treatment of half-castes in the Northern Territory. About 1929, the Commonwealth committed itself to a policy of lifting half-castes to the standard of the whites. That policy, which has since been adopted by Western Australia, has […]
On Aboriginal Reserves and Missions [EN 5/23]
2 April 1938 INTRODUCTION: ABORIGINAL RESERVES This report arises from enquiries made in the course of investigation into the activities of certain Northern Territory missions, with a view to the granting of subsidies. The matters there investigated proved so diverse and the subject of mission activities in certain areas was found to be so intricately […]
Rumoured appointment of Dr Donald Thomson as Chief Protector [EN 5/43]
4th January, 1936. His Honour, The Administrator of the Northern Territory. It has been freely suggested in the Southern Press, from time to time, that the Chief Protector of Aboriginals in the Territory should be a trained anthropologist. This suggestion has recently been revived locally by a rumour, purporting to have originated in Canberra, that Dr. […]
The Minister considers a new policy for N.T. Aboriginals [EN 5/67]
CONFIDENTIAL 11th April, 1938 His Honour,The Administrator of the Northern Territory,DARWIN, N.T. The Minister has had under consideration for some time the question of the policy that should be adopted for the welfare of the aborigines in the Northern Territory. He has gone carefully into the existing policy and the establishment provided in the Territory […]
Dr Cook’s personal comments on the Minister’s proposed policy [EN 5/69]
CONFIDENTIAL His Honour, The Administrator I find it very difficult to comment dispassionately upon the proposed aboriginal policy forwarded with your memorandum of the 14th instant. So many entirely personal factors are involved in the proposed changes that I am afraid my commentary, so far from appearing to be the well-considered judgement of an experienced official […]
Dr Cook’s professional comments on the Minister’s proposed policy [EN 5/70]
CONFIDENTIAL His Honour, The Administrator In accordance with the instruction contained in your memorandum of 14th April, 1938, I submit herewith my comments on the proposed aboriginal policy outlined by the Minister and forwarded under cover of the Secretary’s confidential memorandum of 11th instant. At the outset I wish to state that the second paragraph of […]
The Social Status of Aborigines [EN 5/72]
The Sun (Sydney, NSW) Monday 15 August 1938p2 CIVIC RIGHTS FOR BLACKS: MINISTER’S PLAN TO UPLIFT STATUSTraining In Station Trades as QualificationFrom Our Special Representative with Federal Ministerial party visiting, Northern Territory. Full citizen rights will be held out to individual aborigines as an incentive to them to improve their social status, said the Minister […]
Health Administration and the Northern Territory Native [EN 4/51, 8/16]
Director-General 19th June, 1951 INTRODUCTORY The health problem created by the Northern Territory native can best be understood against the background of his mode of life prior to white settlement and his reaction to contact with European civilisation. In his traditional mode of life, the native moved as one of a small family group over […]