Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Inequality: an overview
- 2 Remote Australia I: government settlements and missions
- 3 Remote Australia II: pastoral stations
- 4 Remote Australia III: decentralised communities
- 5 Settled Australia I: urban and rural communities
- 6 Settled Australia II: the major urban areas
- 7 Some economic issues
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Remote Australia I: government settlements and missions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Inequality: an overview
- 2 Remote Australia I: government settlements and missions
- 3 Remote Australia II: pastoral stations
- 4 Remote Australia III: decentralised communities
- 5 Settled Australia I: urban and rural communities
- 6 Settled Australia II: the major urban areas
- 7 Some economic issues
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In applying the term ‘colonial Australia’ to the area … which roughly demarcates the desert and sparsely settled pastoral country (of Australia), I have it in mind that in these northern and central regions the social relationships between the indigenous and the settler populations represent an earlier phase of changes brought by European settlement, and that there are many aspects remaining in the relations between the races which are typical of industrial colonialism.
CD. Rowley, The Remote AboriginesColonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
B. Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons (5 February 1873).The geographic area in which government settlements and church missions for Aborigines are found today has been variously called remote, traditional and ‘colonial’ Australia. All three adjectives seem appropriate. This vast area of the country is remote, being beyond the fringes of settlement, and isolated from major population centres and economic activity. It is also traditional, since the majority of Aboriginal residents in the region are of full descent and appear less divorced from the social, cultural and kinship systems of their forefathers than those Aborigines in more settled or urban areas. Finally, Rowley's (1971b) expression ‘colonial’ is apposite as well, alluding as it does to the pluralistic features of society in this part of Australia. But while each adjective is in its own way appropriate, the term used in this chapter is ‘remote’.
Geographically, remote Australia comprises half the continent.
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- The Economic Status of Australian Aborigines , pp. 22 - 58Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979