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'The Stud Book: an instrument of torture against the Aborigines'

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Dr Barry Christophers went through the Register of Wards noting the frequent use of insulting and disparaging names used in this official register of Northern Territory Aborigines.

Dr Barry Christophers went through the Register of Wards noting the frequent use of insulting and disparaging names used in this official register of Northern Territory Aborigines.

Source: The Guardian, 27 February 1964



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'The Stud Book'

Documents - Albert Namatjira and citizenship, 1958-59