Contents

Preface        4

Introduction        6

Chapter One — In All but Name        20

Chapter Two — Queensland        33

Chapter Three — The New Police Force        50

Chapter Four — Ten Years On        77

Chapter Five ― Evaluation of the Management and Operational Efficiency of the Queensland Native Police        120

Appendix A – Data        140

Appendix B – How many Aboriginals were killed by white settlers and the native police?        141

Chapter Six ― Collisions on the Maritime Frontier        148

Chapter Seven ― A Review of Aboriginal Behaviour in Colonial Queensland        162

Table A – Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930.        175

 Appendix C – Cannibalism by Australian Mainland Aboriginals       176

Appendix D – Guerrilla Warfare.        177

Chapter Eight ― The Fifties        181

Chapter Nine ― The Sixties        192

Chapter Ten ― The Seventies        231

Chapter Eleven ― Native Police Internal Affairs        274

Appendix E ― Notice-Aborigines        300

Standing Orders for the Border Police.        301

E. V. Morisset ― Instructions of Commandant to Officers and Camp Sergeants of Native Police.        302

Appendix F ― Legislative Basis of the Queensland Police.        304

Appendix G ― The Select Committee of 1861, Native Police Force Report.        312

Bibliography        315

Abbreviations        316

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