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'The Brisbane of my childhood was monocultural and ethnocentric, a very white affair. Like most Queenslanders of my generation, I had virtually nothing to do with Aborigines and was given little reason to understand their culture or to see the history of the European conquest of this country from their point of view. I certainly had no knowledge of the relationship between Aborigines and police, poisoned as it was by decades of policing which intimidated, imprisoned and eliminated Aboriginal ‘troublemakers’. Nor did I know of the confiscation of children of mixed descent from their Aboriginal mothers. Similarly, I was ignorant of how Queensland's paternalistic protectionist policies had compulsorily detained tens of thousands of Aborigines on ‘missions’ scattered throughout Queensland, an injustice compounded by the practice of quarantining their miserable wages into a ‘welfare fund’ which was used in ways that suited the government bureaucrats of the day.' (Extract) 

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    y separately published work icon Queensland Review vol. 13 no. 1 2006 Z1366647 2006 periodical issue

    'This issue opens with papers on colonial Queensland by Kerry Heckenberg and Denis Cryle. Heckenberg's paper, 'Conflicting Visions', explores the life and art of the Queensland-born painter William George Wilson, whose work graces our cover. In a serendipitous connection with Denis Cryle's paper, William George Wilson (1849-1924) was the son' of the wealthy Scottish squatter William Wilson,. who arrived in Moreton Bay in 1843. Cryle's paper, 'Scottish Intellectuals in Colonial Queensland', argues that the dominant narrative of the colonial Scots as entrepreneurial and often ruthless pastoralists, politicians and businessmen fails to take into account the contributions of Scots to education, journalism, and the life of the mind ·and soul more generally. His case studies of two exemplars of 'Scotus Intellectualis' - John Dunmore Lang and George Wight - outline the intellectual and civic contributions of these two Protestant clergymen to the early colony of Queensland.' (Editorial)

    2006
    pg. 79-97
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