This article is a summary of an address given by Dr. C.E. Cook, Senior Medical Officer, Commonwealth Department of Health, to a Conference on Native Employment in the Northern Territory, held in Sydney on the 24th February, 1955. In the Northern Territory, as in other tropical regions, the environment is ideal for the intense endemicity […]
Aboriginal Protection – Aid or Hindrance to Integration?
A paper given by Dr Cook to the A.N.Z.A.A.S Conference in Adelaide 1969, extracted from Berndt’s edited proceedings of the conference From the time of Phillip it has been the acknowledged policy and objective of Australian governments to foster the friendship and co-operation of the indigenous inhabitants, and to extend the protection of the law […]