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KEEP THE BREED PURE. The half-caste usually inherits the vices of both races and the virtues of neither. Do you want Australia to be a community of mongrels?
The Bulletin (1901)
I did what I set out to do—to make their passing easier and to keep the dreaded half-caste menace from our shores.
Daisy Bates, The Passing of the Aborigines (1944, 37)
The old-fashioned term ‘halfcaste ,’as applied to persons of mixed Aboriginal and European descent, is going into the discard.
Frank Clune, The Fortune Hunters (1957, 119)