Crown Lands Commissioners – Moreton Bay and Darling Downs, 1842–56

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (01) ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Margaret Shield
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Moreton Bay ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
Crown Lands

AbstractCommissioners of Crown Lands were the first government officials appointed to the newly declared pastoral districts surrounding Moreton Bay after it was opened to free settlement in 1842. These officers had a significant impact on the formation of regional communities, the administration of justice and the treatment of the Indigenous people but their primary responsibility was the implementation and enforcement of government policies relating to Crown Lands. Commissioners were required to oversee pastoral leases, ensure payment of fees for pastoral and other licences and undertake expeditions to provide the New South Wales government with information regarding the nature of the land and its resources. Extracts from the original correspondence between the Commissioners and the Colonial Secretary indicate that, despite enormous challenges, early Crown Lands Commissioners were largely successful in ensuring the orderly settlement of pastoral districts. Their success however, came at the expense of the Indigenous people, who were systematically driven from their lands without compensation and with scant consideration for their welfare.

Drysdale, Russell (1912–1981)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Gray
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
World War ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1960S

Russell Drysdale was an Australian artist who created an original vision of the Australian landscape from the 1940s to the 1960s, portraying the emptiness and loneliness of the Australian outback and country townships in his paintings, drawings, and photographs. During World War II, he depicted everyday subjects, including groups of servicemen waiting at railway stations. He traveled numerous times to the interior of Australia, including a trip to record the drought devastation in South Western New South Wales in 1944, where he created images that convey the environmental degradation of the landscape. In 1947, he explored the Bathurst region with Donald Friend where he discovered Sofala and Hill End, an area that served as the subject matter for his art for a number of years. Drysdale painted many images of deserted country towns as well as brooding landscapes peopled with stockmen and station hands. In his paintings of Aborigines, Drysdale expressed a deep concern for the Indigenous people, often placing them within his paintings in a manner that conveys a sense of dispossession. His work was singled out by Kenneth Clark in 1949 as being among the most original in Australian art, and his exhibition at the Leicester Galleries, London, in 1950 convinced British critics that Australian artists had an original vision.

scholarly journals Injury profiles of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in New South Wales

2006 ◽  
Vol 184 (5) ◽  
pp. 217-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen F Clapham ◽  
Mark R Stevenson ◽  
Sing Kai Lo
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales

VICTORIANS LIVE: AUSTRALIA'S VICTORIAN VESTIGES

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 342-346
Author(s):  
Margaret Harris
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Moreton Bay ◽  
South Wales ◽  
British Colonies

ON 1 JANUARY 1901, at the beginning of a new century, the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed a political entity by the federation of six separate British colonies. Queen Victoria's formal assent to the necessary legislation of the Westminster Parliament was one of her last official acts; she died on 22 January. For all the tyranny of 20,000 kilometres distance, the impress of the monarch on her far-flung colony was evident. Two of the states of the Commonwealth, Victoria and Queensland, had been named for her. When the Port Phillip settlement separated from New South Wales in 1851, it became Victoria; in 1859, when the Moreton Bay settlement also hived off, its first governor announced “a fact which I know you will all hear with delight–Queensland, the name selected for this new Colony, was entirely the happy thought and inspiration of Her Majesty herself!” (Cilento and Lack 161)

Genetic variation and population subdivison in the greentail prawn Metapenaeus bennettae (Racek & Dall)

1987 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 339 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Salini
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Heterogeneity ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Fumarate Hydratase ◽  
Allele Frequencies ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Moreton Bay ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium ◽  
Starch Gel

The genetic structure of M. bennettae populations from six locations on the east coast of Australia was investigated using starch-gel electrophoresis. Eight polymorphic loci (fumarate hydratase, glucose- 6-phosphate isomerase, malate dehydrogenase-1 and -2, mannose-6-phosphate isomerase, octanol dehydrogenase, phosphogluconate dehydrogenase and phosphoglucomutase) were examined. All loci over the six sites were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Although low levels of variation typical of penaeid prawns were found, the contingency Χ2 analysis of allele frequencies over all locations revealed considerable genetic heterogeneity. However, pairwise comparisons of adjacent locations showed that most of this genetic heterogeneity was largely attributable to the Moreton Bay-Lake Macquarie comparison. These two locations are the most widely separated adjacent sample sites. Replicate samples from 1982 and 1983 revealed consistency in allele frequencies at Moreton Bay and at Lake Macquarie. These results confirm previously reported genetic heterogeneity between Queensland and New South Wales populations of M. bennettae, but they do not support the report that nearby populations in both Queensland and New South Wales are also heterogeneous.

scholarly journals Seagull Syndrome: Relationships between Patrol Workers and Government Officials in NSW, Australia

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Jayne Porter
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Core ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Core Features

This paper explores the nature of relations between public officials and community workers, drawing on empirical data from a study on Indigenous patrols in New South Wales, Australia. Patrol workers interact with public officials from various state entities who are tasked with overseeing funding, carrying out evaluations and, to varying degrees, monitoring the ‘effectiveness’ of local patrol operations. These interactions illuminate several issues regarding the ways in which knowledge about patrols is created, contested and communicated between Indigenous and non-Indigenous domains. The emergent patterns of these relations can be described as ‘seagull syndrome’, which involves the privileging of some types of knowledge over others in decision-making regarding Indigenous affairs, often with disastrous consequences for Indigenous organisations and communities. The paper documents the core features of seagull syndrome with respect to the discrete practices, everyday decision-making and mundane communication between public officials and patrol workers in New South Wales. It considers the implications of seagull syndrome for policy-makers and academics working in the Indigenous justice space and suggests ways to resist or challenge this tendency

scholarly journals Investigating death in Moreton Bay: Coronial inquests and magisterial inquiries

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Lee Butterworth
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Penal Colony ◽  
Moreton Bay ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Justices Of The Peace ◽  
Physical Limitations ◽  
Interracial Violence ◽  
Death Investigation

AbstractEnglish common law was applied in the New South Wales penal colony when it was founded by Governor Arthur Phillip in 1788. Phillip’s second commission granted him sole authority to appoint coroners and justices of the peace within the colony. The first paid city coroner was appointed in 1810 and only five coroners served the expanding territory of New South Wales by 1821. To relieve the burden on coroners, justices of the peace were authorised to conduct magisterial inquiries as an alternative to inquests. When the Moreton Bay settlement was established, and land was opened up to free settlers, justices were relocated from New South Wales to the far northern colony. Nonetheless, the administration of justice, along with the function of the coroner, was hindered by issues of isolation, geography and poor administration by a government far removed from the evolving settlement. This article is about death investigation and the role of the coroner in Moreton Bay. By examining a number of case studies, it looks at the constraints faced by coroners, deaths due to interracial violence and deaths not investigated. It concludes that not all violent and unexplained deaths were investigated in accordance with coronial law due to a paucity of legally qualified magistrates, the physical limitations of local conditions and the denial of justice to Aborigines as subjects of the Crown.

Creating the Aboriginal Pauper: Missionary Ideas in Early 19th Century Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
White Children ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Poor Whites ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Set Up

AbstractThis article examines the relationship between nineteenth century English poor law discourse and missionary work in colonial Australia. The text analyses key sites of Christian missionary philanthropy in New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria in the period 1813-1849. It looks at changes in the ethos of one benevolent institution set up for poor whites, the Benevolent Society of New South Wales. Activated by Christian paternalism at its foundation in 1813 the ethos of this institution became dominated by the language of moral reform by the 1830s. The article also examines the first institution established for Indigenous people, the Native Institution at Parramatta, NSW, founded in 1814. Its aims and character will be compared and contrasted with those of the Female and Male Orphan schools for white children. The text considers also how Christian philanthropic visions for the improvement of Indigenous people were affected by factors such as accelerating pastoral expansion, loss of Indigenous food sources and retaliatory violence. Cet article examine la relation entre le discours relatif aux lois sur les pauvres au 19e siècle en Angleterre et le travail missionnaire en Australie coloniale, en se penchant sur les sites clés de la philanthropie chrétienne dans le New South Wales et Victoria durant les années 1813 à 1849. Ainsi, le texte analyse les transformations de l'éthos d'une institution bénévole créée pour s'occuper des pauvres blancs, la Société Bénévole de New South Wales. Alors qu'il était un produit du paternalisme chrétien à sa fondation en 1813, l'ethos de l'institution fut marqué par le langage de la réforme morale vers les années 1830. Le regard se porte également sur la première institution pour les peuples indigènes, la Native Institution at Parramatta, fondée en 1814. Ses buts et son caractère sont comparés et contrastés avec ceux des orphelinats pour filles et garçons blancs. Le texte considère enfin comment les vues philanthropiques chrétiennes pour l'amélioration des peuples indigènes ont été affectées par des facteurs tels que l'expansion pastorale croissante, la perte de nourriture indigène et la violence de représailles.

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