03. Commission of Enquiry into Aborigines |
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| Title : | 03. Commission of Enquiry into Aborigines |
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| Source : | The Advertiser, 15 May 1935, p. 22, col. f | ||
| Date of creation : | 1935 | ||
| Format : | Newspaper | ||
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Newspaper report on Constable William McKinnon, of the Northern Territory police, travelling from Oodnadatta to Alice Springs for the sitting of the Commonwealth Board of Enquiry into the ill-treatment of Aboriginal people near Uluru. The Board sought to enquire into McKinnon's treatment of the Aboriginal men in his custody following their arrest on a charge of murdering their tribesman, Kai-Umen, in Central Australia. |
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Commonwealth Board of Enquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of Aborigines near Ayers Rock, (1935) McKinnon, Bill (William) |
| Coverage year : | 1935 |
| Period : | 1927-1939 |
| Place : | Oodnadatta |
| Region : | Flinders Ranges and Far North - Outback |
| Further reading : | 'Board of Inquiry into shooting of Aborigines at Ayers Rock by Constable W. McKinnon, Evidence, 1935', Mountford-Sheard Collection, PRG 1218/5/2 Lamshed, Max, 'Monty' : the biography of C.P. Mountford, [Adelaide] : Rigby, 1972 Warden, James. 'T.G.H. Strehlow and the 1935 Board of Inquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of Aborigines' in Traditions in the midst of change : communities, cultures and the Strehlow legacy in Central Australia : proceedings of the Strehlow Conference, Alice Springs 18-20 September 2002, Alice Springs, N.T. : Strehlow Research Centre, 2004, pp. 89-100 |
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