THE ABORIGINAL
PLEA FOR BETTER TREATMENT NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO VOTE (Rec. 11.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 10. An aboriginal’s appeal for better education and more considerate treatment for the members of his race was loudly applauded by the delegates at the International Conference of the New Education Fellowship. . The speaker, Walter Page, asked: “If we are good enough to fight overseas, why are we not good enough to have our children taught well? ” Tuition at mission schools was not adequate, and aboriginals were not allowed to attend ordinary schools. City people were friendly and sociable, but that did not happen in the country. It was a sad commentary that the aboriginal, who was the real Australian, was not allowed to vote.
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Evening Star, Issue 25893, 10 September 1946, Page 8
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121THE ABORIGINAL Evening Star, Issue 25893, 10 September 1946, Page 8
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