Criminal justice and transgression on northern Australian cattle stations

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ID20043955
AutoresThalia Anthony (0000-0002-0652-0731, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Data de publicação2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoTransgressions (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU)
DOI10.22459/t.12.2007.03
OpenAlexW2212710776
ISBN9781921313448
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas19

The remote interior of northern Australia represented a site of transgression for both pastoral colonisers and Aborigines alike.From the northern frontier period in the late nineteenth century until the 1966 Equal Pay decision, a unique relationship existed on cattle stations in which pastoralists and their Aboriginal workers deviated from government control.Despite Aboriginal protection legislation that prevailed elsewhere in northern Australia, pastoralists created their own jurisdiction over Aboriginal people.This jurisdiction bypassed the assimilationist tendencies of government policy, by allowing Aboriginal people to practice customs and ceremonies, and retain connections to country. 1 At the same time, it maximised the capacity for pastoralists to exploit Aboriginal labour.Therefore, both pastoralists and Aboriginal people benefited from transgressing official 'Aboriginal Acts'.However, this source of transgression was at the mercy of the pastoralist.Accordingly, it came to a sudden halt in the late 1960s with the introduction of labour-saving machines and the 1966 Equal Pay decision.These developments rendered Aboriginal workers redundant.They were transferred from the cattle station to the government sphere of welfare and criminal justice. 2 They were subsequently denied connections to country, and their historic labour contribution went largely unrecognised

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