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Article: Counting, Health And Identity: a history of Aboriginal health and demography in Western Australia And Queensland.(Book Review)
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- Australian Aboriginal Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Counting, Health and Identity: A history of Aboriginal health and demography in Western Australia and Queensland
Gordon Briscoe
Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2003, xxx + 390pp, ISBN 0855754478
Reviewed by Tim Rowse, Visiting Professor in Australian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Gordon Briscoe is among those who would make the body of the colonised a central topic in the history of European colonies. He studies two colonies--Western Australia and Queensland--from 1900 to 1940. Though part of the same new nation--Australia--the two states can be considered as discrete ventures in the government of Indigenous ...