Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Inequality: an overview
- 2 Remote Australia I: government settlements and missions
- 3 Remote Australia II: pastoral stations
- 4 Remote Australia III: decentralised communities
- 5 Settled Australia I: urban and rural communities
- 6 Settled Australia II: the major urban areas
- 7 Some economic issues
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Remote Australia II: pastoral stations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Inequality: an overview
- 2 Remote Australia I: government settlements and missions
- 3 Remote Australia II: pastoral stations
- 4 Remote Australia III: decentralised communities
- 5 Settled Australia I: urban and rural communities
- 6 Settled Australia II: the major urban areas
- 7 Some economic issues
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
(Stockmen) are a funny breed … they do not really need a day off a week. If you have a day off and lay on your back you've got time to think of your problems. Since I have been here I have had days off but they don't provide any facilities. You do your washing and then you lay on your back and think - this is a lousy place; what am I doing here?
Interview reported in F. S. Stevens, Aborigines in the Northern Territory Cattle IndustryThe majority of the Aboriginal population lives in ‘remote’ Australia, as defined in Chapter 2. In this region, there are basically four forms of Aboriginal community: government settlements, church missions, various Aboriginal-owned or occupied properties, and encampments of Aborigines on European-owned (pastoral) properties. In this chapter is summarised the available information on those Aborigines who fall in the last-mentioned group, that is those in pastoral stations. Again, the somewhat piecemeal components of the outline cannot be drawn together with ease or comprehensiveness. This is so for three reasons. Firstly, because Aborigines on pastoral stations are employed in a scattered private setting, the available information, such as it is, resides largely in individual studies of certain areas or groups, rather than in overall surveys. The review relies, therefore, fairly heavily upon the few available studies: the Gibb Committee (1973); Gruen (1966); and Stevens (1974), all in the Northern Territory; Scott (1971a) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and Stanley (1976) in central Australia. Secondly, the pattern of association between Aborigines and the stations has varied considerably.
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- The Economic Status of Australian Aborigines , pp. 59 - 75Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979