'A Halo of Protection': colonial protectors and the principle of aboriginal protection through punishment

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dc.contributor.authorNettelbeck, A.
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractScholarship on Australia's colonial protectorates has examined the ways in which protectors largely failed in their humanitarian mission, as well as the ambivalent roles they played as agents of ‘civilisation’. Yet as well as representing ‘friends and benefactors’ of Aboriginal people, colonial protectors worked to bring them within the legal reach of police, courts and prisons. This article will compare the work of the protectorates during the 1840s in Port Phillip and South Australia with that of Western Australia, where a more systematic and forebodingly modern policy of Aboriginal governance existed. It argues that in Western Australia a logic of Aboriginal protection emerged through a principle of discipline and punishment facilitated by the distinctive policy regime of Governor Hutt.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityAmanda Nettelbeck
dc.identifier.citationAustralian Historical Studies, 2012; 43(3):396-411
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1031461X.2012.706621
dc.identifier.issn1031-461X
dc.identifier.issn1940-5049
dc.identifier.orcidNettelbeck, A. [0000-0001-7099-6075]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/74425
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniv Melbourne
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dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2012.706621
dc.title'A Halo of Protection': colonial protectors and the principle of aboriginal protection through punishment
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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