AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES
A KAPIMLY-DYING RACE. Sydney, March 25. The outstanding features of the census of aborigines ' taken on June 30 last is the rapidly-accelerated decline in the race since the previous census was taken. So fast are the natives dying out that 788 only are left in New South Wales who can be classed as fullblood adults. Their children number fewer than 300, so that it is only a question of a very short time before there will be none of the native race in the State. In Queensland 10,600 full-blood males and females remain of the original inhabitants of the country, while their offspring total 3000 odd. Few remain in Victoria, and none in Tasmania, of the descendants of the trldes, which offered more or less futile opposition to the white man's landing and colonisation. But 28 males and females are in Victoria, and it is significant that they have no female children. There are however, nine malesBy far the greatest number of natives in Australia are to be found in the Northern Territory, where they total 19,853, of which 15,000 are adults. There are 6035 half-castes in New South Wales,I’the 1 ’the highest proportion in the Commonwealth.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3576, 6 April 1927, Page 9
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