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'The 1950s in Western Australia was a time of radical reform in the way the government addressed the Aboriginal people living within its borders. Adrian Day was a Native Acts officer during this time. He was a young man with noble intent. He travelled throughout the state, trying to administer the Native Administration Act and seeing from experience all the ineptitudes it contained. A very young man with noble intent, a lack of maturity and no training whatsoever sent out by government to deal with what it sees as a disintegrating and dying race. It is about the ineptitude of government in dealing with a giant problem the average citizens, if they concern themselves at all, think is being attended to by experts. That within some grand plan there are dove-tailed notions which will bring about a solution, if not now, then at some stage in the future. To confound government the race does not die nor does it quite disintegrate. Politics, prejudice, greed, apathy and indifference play their part. However there is enough conscience, courage and integrity, here and there, to provide in the awakening years just after World War II, the seed for dramatic change.' Source: Libraries Australia. (Sighted 02/03/2011).

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    • Carlisle, Victoria Park area, South & South East Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Hesperian Press , 2010 .
      Extent: viii, 267p.
      Description: illus., ports
      ISBN: 9780859054751, 0859054756
      Series: y separately published work icon Aboriginal Studies Series Hesperian Press , Carlisle : Hesperian Press , 1980- 9949601 1980 series - publisher biography

      These books have either total Aboriginal content, substantial Aboriginal content, or contain Aboriginal material of interest. (Hesperian Press website)

      Number in series: 40

Works about this Work

[Review Essay] Wadjelas : The Memoirs of a 1950's Patrol Officer Ruth Latukefu , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2010; (p. 134-136)

— Review of Wadjelas : The Memoirs of a 1950's Patrol Officer Adrian Day , 2010 single work autobiography

'The contemporary Australian history and culture wars resurfaced in February in the pages of the Weekend Australian and the Monthly. From his own publishing house, the Macleay Press, Keith Windschuttle issued his Fabrication of Aboriginal History (Volume Three), renewing his attack on the concept of the Stolen Generations and on the so-called black armband view of history. In the context of that debate, Adrian Day’s memoir has a special resonance.'  (Introduction)

[Review Essay] Wadjelas : The Memoirs of a 1950's Patrol Officer Ruth Latukefu , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2010; (p. 134-136)

— Review of Wadjelas : The Memoirs of a 1950's Patrol Officer Adrian Day , 2010 single work autobiography

'The contemporary Australian history and culture wars resurfaced in February in the pages of the Weekend Australian and the Monthly. From his own publishing house, the Macleay Press, Keith Windschuttle issued his Fabrication of Aboriginal History (Volume Three), renewing his attack on the concept of the Stolen Generations and on the so-called black armband view of history. In the context of that debate, Adrian Day’s memoir has a special resonance.'  (Introduction)

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