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Published 04-08-1992
ISBN 9780522847444
Pages 328
Subjects Biography: general
Imprint MUP POD

George Robinson

Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines

Vivienne Rae-Ellis

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Published 04-08-1992
ISBN 9780522847444
Pages 328
Subjects Biography: general
Imprint MUP POD

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.

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.