Exercise 2.10
Read the following source. It is a quote from the Native Welfare Conference, 1937. Then use the source and your own knowledge to colour in the circle that best answers the questions.‘We have power under the act to take any child from its mother at any stage of its life... Are we going to have a population of one million blacks in the Commonwealth or are we going to merge them into our white community and eventually forget that there were ever any Aborigines in Australia?’
Source: A O Neville, Chief Protector of Aborigines, Native Welfare Conference, 1937 quoted in 'Sorry', Sydney Morning Herald, 30 May 1998, p 41.
1 The source is an example of:
a a primary source / b a newspaper article /
c an artefact /
d a secondary source. /
2 The source was found in:
a the minutes of the Native Welfare Conference / b Mr Neville’s diary /
c the Sydney Morning Herald /
d a book entitled Sorry. /
3 The policy that Mr Neville is suggesting is:
a protection / b self-determination /
c integration /
d assimilation. /
4 The ‘Act’ that Mr Neville refers to is:
a the Aboriginal Protection Activity / b the Protector of Aborigines Activity /
c the Aborigines Protection Board Activity /
d the Aborigines Welfare Activity. /
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