- Title
- "All that appears possible now is to mitigate as much as possible the trials of their closing years"
- Creator
- Cahir, David (Fred); Tout, Dan
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/167630
- Identifier
- vital:13675
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12463
- Identifier
- ISBN:0004-9522
- Abstract
- This article examines Alfred Deakin’s attitudes towards, and impacts upon, Aboriginal people during the period 1880-1910, drawing on newspaper articles and parliamentary debates as principal source materials. The discussion begins by charting the long, influential and often positive relationships Deakin had with several Aboriginal communities during a period as a Victorian MLA between 1881 and 1884. It then proceeds to document Deakin’s extraordinary descent into paternalism and racially-based fatalism which pervaded his later association with Aboriginal affairs whilst Victoria’s Chief Secretary (1886–1890), Victorian MLA for Essendon and delegate to Federal conventions (1890-1900), as the Federation debates took shape. And finally, the article outlines the attitudes Deakin expressed towards Aboriginal people in his various post-Federation political roles, including Attorney-General, Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs. In doing so, the discussion draws out the connections between Deakin’s advocacy of a white Australia and his attitudes towards Aboriginal Australia, and demonstrates the extent to which the creation of a new nation both informed and responded to socio-racial ideologies that mandated the exclusion of non-white identities from the nation-to-come
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Politics and History Vol. 64, no. 2 (2018), p. 177-193
- Rights
- Copyright © 2018 The Authors and 2018 The University of Queensland and John Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- 1605 Policy and Administration; 1606 Political Science; 2103 Historical Studies; History; Australia; Aboriginal; Australian women; Alfred Deakin
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