Land ownership has been an obsession for all of them. The same Aborigines who were told by my forebears that they didn’t polish the silver properly could not have any level of dominion over their own lives. They were only given the vote in 1967. “Money spent on them was wasted,”...
Widespread car ownership from the 1950s opened the opportunity for sprawling outer suburbs. Peri-urban rural residential blocks followed. Before European arrival, infectious disease with epidemic potential was largely absent from the sparse, nomadic Indigenous Australian populations [66]. Indigenous groups...