HIST1051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White Australia Policy, Federation Drought, Advance Australia Fair
• Week Five
• Lecture 5.1: Turning the Map Upside Down
• The view from the North
• Lecture Summary
❑ Part One:
• First contact
• Settler colonialism?
❑ Part Two:
• Beyond black and white
• Non-white labour and the bush legend
• Racial anxieties
• Focus Question
• How does the history of the north change the way we understand Australian history?
PART ONE
• First contact?
• Chinese (592-593 BC)
• Muslim traders 16th century
• Dutch 17th century
• William Dampier (1688)
• The Maassas …
• The Macassans, 1720–1900s
• Trepang, bech-de-mer (sea cucumber/slug)
• Arnhem Land to China
• Australian & Asian connections pre- British
• Cultural exchange (amicable)
• British interest in the north sees trade go into decline.
• Harry Makarrwala, 1926
“oe Maassa men were there and they said that the white men were getting very mean
and very cheeky and they were going to stop the Macassar men from coming. They said this was
their last voyage and they would never come again. They said that the white men were all the same
as animals and that they were big men and had hair on them and were fierce and they just killed
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people eause they like to kill….Our old e elieed the. We ere sorry that Maassar e ere
not coming again, for they brought us tomahawks and calio ad other thigs e liked.
• Colonisation up north
• Settler-colonies and exploitation (plantation economies)
• The Northern Townships:
• Cairns (1876) and Mackay (1860s): sugar plantations
• Thursday Island (1870s) and Broome (1880s): pearling
• Indentured workers and black-birding
• Not about creating a new world but extracting profits
• Darwin: A second Singapore?
• 1869
• South Australian Administration, 1870-1910
• Alfred Searcy, 1906: “o sure as toorro follos today this agifiet harour ill be the
“igapore of Australia.
• Failure and disillusionment
• Commonwealth Administration, 1911
• Regional Connections
• Multiethnic Population
• Tropical Colonial Culture
• Radical Darwin
• Darwin Rebellion 1911–19
PART TWO
• Asian-Aboriginal Contact
• Government Intervention
QLD: Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, (1897 & 1901)
WA: Aborigines Act (1905)
NT: Aborigines Act (1910)
• Made goeet offiials Aoigial Potetos
• Gave governments power to remove children
• Instituted labour licenses
• A White Australia?
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Document Summary
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