Queensland Settlements - Description - 1933

Item

Sport

Communities Involved

Year

1933

Place

Queensland Settlements

Title

Queensland Settlements - Description - 1933

Description

Description of the current (at 1933) status of Indigenous Australians, focussing on the Queensland givernment settlements. Includes comments on athletic ability:

"They are naturally an athletic race and every facility is placed at their disposal for the promotion of heathful sport. Football, tennis, cricket, foot-racing, and all the white man's forms of recreation find a ready place in the daily, routine of the aboriginal settlements".

Also commentary on: Holding wages in trust; Creation of settlements in Queenslan;. Creation of Queensland indigenous policies.

Photos, including swimming recreation in enclosed beach area on Palm Island.

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