George Robinson

Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines

Vivienne Rae-Ellis
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George Robinson

Published

4 August 1992

ISBN

9780522847444

Pages

328

Imprint

Melbourne University Press

George Robinson

Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines

Vivienne Rae-Ellis
Controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia.
A greedy, vain and unscrupulous man bent on self-aggrandisment.

This controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be the worthy civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines to have been a monster of deceit and a betrayer of those it was his role to protect-a man who made perhaps the most repellent contribution of all to what was to become the decimation of Tasmania's Aborigines.

A greedy, vain and unscrupulous man bent on self-aggrandisment.

This controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be the worthy civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines to have been a monster of deceit and a betrayer of those it was his role to protect-a man who made perhaps the most repellent contribution of all to what was to become the decimation of Tasmania's Aborigines.

Vivienne Rae-Ellis

Vivienne Rae-Ellis

Vivienne Rae-Ellis had a wide variety of working experience as a professional actress, newspaper columnist, radio script-writer and public relations officer before she began writing books. Among her many published titles are biographies of Trucanini, Louisa Anne Meredith and George Robinson.

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