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The Political Arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians

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ID3347822
AuthorsLen Smith (0000-0002-5477-0874, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies), Janya Mccalman (0000-0003-4150-4574, RMIT University), Janet Mccalman (Janet McCalman has a personal chair in the School of Population Health, University of Melbourne. She is the author of Sex and Suffering (Baltimore 1999); co-author, with Ruth Morley and John Carlin, of “Birth Weight and Coronary Heart Disease in a Cohort Born 1857–1900 in Melbourne, Australia,” International Journal of Epidemiology, XXXV (2006), 880–885), Ian Anderson (0000-0003-2205-9209, Institute for Urban Indigenous Health), Sandra Smith (0000-0001-5839-6771, Sandra Smith is a research officer in Indigenous Cultures, Museum Victoria.), Joanne Evans (0000-0002-0837-765X, Joanne Evans is Deputy Director of the eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne.), Gavan Mccarthy (0000-0001-8411-3173, Gavan McCarthy is Director of the eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne.), Jane Beer (Jane Beer is a research assistant, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne.)
Year2008
Volume38
Issue4
Pages533-551
Publication date2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/jinh.2008.38.4.533
OpenAlexW2098891605
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited9

Established as a British Colony in 1835, Victoria was considered the leader in Australian indigenous administration-the first colony to legislate for the "protection" and legal victualing of Aborigines, and the first to collect statistical data on their decline and anticipated disappearance. The official record, however, excludes the data that can explain the Aborigines' stunning recovery. A painstaking investigation combining family histories; Victoria's birth, death, and marriage registrations; and census and archival records provides this information. One startling finding is that the surviving Aboriginal population is descended almost entirely from those who were under the protection of the colonial state

Administration (probate law) · Archaeology · Census · Colonialism · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · State (computer science) · Australian History and Society · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Demography · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law

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