"The story of European settlement is the story of aboriginal decay, decimation and death, for the first chapters were written together, and each section as written up to the present has revealed marvellous progress running on contemporaneously with lamentable deterioration, rapid decay, and fast following death—the black man falling as the white man rose."
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The Story of the Blacks: The Aborigines of Australia, Ch. 38, as serialised in the Windsor and Richmond Gazette (commencing 30 April 1904); an earlier version had been published in the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (commencing 14 September 1889)
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Charles White (writer)
Charles White (1845 – 22 December 1922) was an Australian journalist, author and historian, notable for his books on bushranging and other aspects of Australian history.
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