Public health approaches to northern Australian Aborigines - C.E.Cook's itinerary — Australian Historical Association annual conference hosted by The Australian National University

Public health approaches to northern Australian Aborigines - C.E.Cook's itinerary

Public health approaches to northern Australian Aborigines - C.E.Cook's itinerary (124)

Tim Rowse ¹ , Barry Leithhead

Western Sydney University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

In historical scholarship public servant Dr C.E. Cook (1897-1985) is associated with a policy of ‘breeding out the colour’ in the Northern Territory. As well as querying whether there ever was such a ‘policy’, this paper will put Cook’s ‘half-caste’ policy in the context of his approach to Aboriginal health and to Australia’s ‘race relations’. We divide Cook’s thought into three periods – 1927-39, 1948-55 and 1969-71 – and we trace continuities and discontinuities in Cook’s socio-medical approach to Northern Development.

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Rowse, T

Tim Rowse is an Emeritus Professor at Western Sydney University. He writes about the settler colonisation of Indigenous peoples and about the Indigenous response - mostly the case of Australia. In 2017 UNSW Press published his book 'Indigenous and other Australians since 1901'.

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