Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 [Review Essay] Up Rode the Troopers : The Black Police in Queensland
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'This book provides the serious historical researcher with some important clues pertaining to several incidences in the affairs of the government-appointed Queensland Native Police that reveal a politically expedient cover-up. In May 1861 a Select Committee on the Native Police Force was appointed to enquire into the Force and the conditions of the Aborigines generally. In his book Up Rode the Troopers, BilI Rosser compares the Minutes of Evidence taken from these proceedings with an oral history account of a descendant of the tribal group, known locally as the Telemon Mob, which suffered from the callous brutality of the Native Police Force under the command of Lieutenant Frederick Wheeler. In this literary investigation into the cold-blooded murder of three Telemon elders, Rosser lifts the rug and exposes the dirty and dark deeds that have been conveniently swept under the carpet of colonial squattocracy. Rosser succeeds in revealing that the enquiry into the affairs of the Native Police was an exercise in political expedience and served to rationalise the systematic exploitation of Australian Aborigines in the newly formed State of Queensland, and to pave the way for the oppressive Queensland Aborigines' Protection Acts.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 2 1990 11960958 1990 periodical issue

    'This year has seen many changes at the Institute—a new name (which, despite several months of practice now, we still difficulty in saying in a single breath), a new Council and a new Act. Four of the five ministerial appointees are now named. The fifth, a Torres Strait Islander, is yet to be announced by the Minister. Members are Mr Isaac Brown, Mr Michael Dodson, Ms Pearl Duncan and Mr Michael Williams. They join the elected members, Mr Ken Colbung, Ms Marcia Langton, Dr Nic Peterson and Professor Robert Tonkinson. The Minister has appointed Mr Colbung as Chairperson and Ms Langton as Deputy Chairperson of the Council.'  (Editorial Introduction)

    1990
    pg. 85-86
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