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Author Skinner, Leslie Edward

Title Police of the pastoral frontier : native police, 1849-59 / L.E. Skinner
Published St. Lucia (Qld) : University of Queensland Press, 1975

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 W'PONDS  363.20994 Ski  AVAILABLE
Description x, 455 pages, <8> of plates : facsimile, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary History of the Native Police Force in Queensland, its formation, development and disbandment; the violent conflict between police, colonists and Aborigines; government policy towards Aborigines and the law; prejudice. An appendix identifies by name Aborigines who served in the police
Analysis Australian Aboriginal police. Australia. Rural regions, 1849-1859
Notes Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Australia. Corps of Native Police. -- History
New South Wales. Police Department -- History.
Aboriginal Australian police -- History -- Australia
Aboriginal Australian police -- History
Aboriginal Australian policemen -- History
Aboriginal Australians as policemen -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Police -- History
Aborigines, Australian as policemen -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- History.
Police, Rural -- Australia -- History.
Police, Rural -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History.
Police, Rural -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.
ISBN 0702209775
Other Titles Native police, 1849-59