Protection at a Price: Protection of the Aborigines in the Commonwealth's Northern Territory 1911-1978

REID, Brian 2022

The book follows the shifts in aboriginal protection policy and the price Aboriginal people had to pay for that protection in almost 70 years of Commonwealth administration of the Territory. The book continues the story begun in Power and Protection starting with the Aboriginal Ordinance 1911 when Aboriginal people were believed by many to be dying out. It ends with the Land Rights (NT) Act 1976 not long before Territory self-government, when Aborigines by then had become a vibrant part of the Territory community.