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Sport 26: Autumn 2001

XVII An Act to Make Provision

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XVII An Act to Make Provision

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How is it possible
to make a man go into the box
and admit he is the father
of a half-caste child?

I do not think that is a nice, or proper, or fair
thing to do.

A half-caste may belong to a syndicate
and it is hard to tell who the father is.

2
The size of the head
and its bumps
represent the shape
and size
of the brain within.

Aboriginal skulls reveal deficiencies in
moral and intellectual organs
and excesses in the passions, aggression
and the observational instinct.

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If Australia is to be a country
fit for our children and their children to live in, we must
KEEP THE BREED PURE.

The half-caste inherits the vices of both
and the virtues of neither.

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Do you want Australia
to be a community of mongrels?

William Lane would rather see
his daughter dead than kissing a black man

or nursing a little coffee-coloured brat
she was mother to.

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Master and Servants Act 1861
Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act 1865
Polynesian Labourers Act 1868
Pacific Islanders Protection Act 1872
Pacific Islanders Protection Act 1875
Pacific Island Labourers Act 1880
Pearl-Shell and Bêche-de-mer Fishery Act 1881
Native Labourers Protection Act 1884
Oaths Act Amendment Act 1884
Elections Act 1850
Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897
Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901
Post and Telegraph Act 1901
Immigration Restriction Act 1901
Sugar Bounty Act 1903
Aborigines Act 1905
Bounties Act 1907
Northern Territory Aboriginals Act 1910
Aborigines Act 1911
White Women's Protection Ordinance 1926
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1962
Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 1991
Native Title Act 1993