Queensland Settlements - Description - 1933
Item
Sport
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Communities Involved
Cherbourg See all items with this value
Palm Island See all items with this value
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Year
1933
Place
Queensland Settlements See all items with this value
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.
"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.