DAY OF MOURNING.
“EMOTIONAL” PROTEST CRITICISED. ADELAIDE Jan. 13. David Unaipon, an educated aboriginal, said to-day that the proposal for a “day of mourning” to direct attention to the grievances of the aborigines was a huge mistake. The movement, he said, was of a political character, and was largely emotional, sponsored by sympathetic white people and half-castes. The 500.000 full-blooded aborigines in Australia would have very little part in the demonstration. They would await stoically and silently the granting to them of the privileges now enjoved by the dominant white races. ' The Prime Minister (Mr Lyons) had already promised that the position would be reviewed. The most effective way to bring this about was not by traducing Australia and giving it a /bad reputation abroad, but by expressing appreciation of what was being done and what was contemplated. The most effective way to help the aborigines was not to weep and bemoan the past, but to act in the living present. The time was past to talk of the segregation of the aborigines. They should come more fully into the national family’.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 54, 1 February 1938, Page 7
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182DAY OF MOURNING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 54, 1 February 1938, Page 7
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