Adelaide resident Dr Herbert Basedow, a geologist, doctor, M.P., and anthropologist. unwittingly provided the authors and administrators of the White Australia policy with a method of 'breeding out the colour', of Aborigines into the white-settler society. His studies had convinced him that Aborigines were 'the racial ancestors of Europeans, that they were black Caucasians, and therefore Aboriginal features disappeared for good after three or four generations of intermarriage with Europeans.
