The Holocaust, the Aborigines, and the bureaucracy of destruction: An Australian dimension of genocide

Journal of Genocide Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 75-87

  Bartrop, Paul R ^a  

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EID: 84937334955     PISSN: 14623528     EISSN: 14699494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14623520120037716     Document Type: Article

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1. Tatz, Colin. 1999. Genocide in Australia, AIATSIS Research Discussion Paper No 8 27Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
2. 1998. The Way We Live Now: The Controversies of the Nineties, 25–26. Melbourne: Text Publishing. Robert Manne is one author who advocates this position. See his
3. Reynolds, Henry. 1982. The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia, Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books. 122+ADs
4. Reynolds, Henry. 1987. Frontier: Aborigines, Settlers, and Land, 53Sydney: Alien and Unwin.
5. Commonwealth of Australia. 1997. Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, 73Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. (hereafter Bringing Them Home)
6. Neville, A.O., 1947. Australia's Coloured Minority: Its Place in the Community, 56Sydney: Currawong.
7. Tatz. Genocide 25
8. Neville. Australia's Coloured 57
9. Bringing Them Home, p 137..
10. Ibid, p 32..
11. Manne, Robert. 1999. "A cruel case of absurd historical denial". Age (Melbourne), 15: 17
12. Neville. Australia's Coloured 80–81.
13. Bringing Them Home, p 276. In the Report this quote is wrongly attributed to James Isdell, a Travelling Protector of Aborigines. Tatz, Genocide, p 25, has located the correct source as C.F. Gale..
14. Neville. Australia's Coloured 176–177.
15. Ibid, pp 179-180..
16. Gaita, Raimond. 1999. A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice, 122Melbourne: Text Publishing.
17. Manne. The Way We Live Now 29
18. Bartrop, Paul R., 1993. "'No real racial problems': Australia, refugees, and the Evian Conference, 1938," ”. In Burning Memory: Times of Testing and Reckoning, Edited by: Eckardt, Alice L., 21–41. Oxford: Pergamon Press. NAA A434, file 50/2/41837, "Refugees from Austria: Special Committee Proposed by USA, Evian," Speech by Lieut.-Colonel the Honourable T.W. White, Delegate for Australia at Evian-les-Bains Conference on July 7, 1938. On Evian and Australia, see also
19. Bartrop, Paul R., 1995. "The Dominions and the Evian Conference: a lost chance or a golden opportunity?" ”. In False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust, Edited by: Bartrop, Paul R., 53–78. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
20. Bartrop, Paul R., 1997. "'These people are undesirable': Australian responses to refugees from Nazism before World War II," ”. In Confronting the Holocaust: A Mandate for the 21st Century, Edited by: Colijn, G. Jan, and Littell, Marcia Sachs. 63–80. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
21. Bartrop, Paul R., 1994. Australia and the Holocaust, 1933-45, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. Chapter 9
22. 1939. Smith's Weekly, July 22: 13
23. Manne. The Way We Live Now, 40–41. Robert Manne, who has written at length on the issue, is not quite so certain that we should be talking about genocide, though he does not reject the position outright. Rather, he prefers to argue a case conditioned along the following lines: If a case is to be made that genocide was committed it can only be made with regard to a particular policy plan, biological assimilation+ADs- at a particular time, the 1930s+ADs- and in particular places, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. And even here the case would have to concede, in my opinion, that the policy was more one of intentions than effective actions, and that, after 1940, it was, everywhere in Australia, abandoned in both thought and deed, Unlike Manne, I am not convinced that the policy was abandoned after 1940, but as the current paper considers the 1930s only, our disagreement need not be debated here
24. Aarons, Mark. 1989. Sanctuary: Nazi Fugitives in Australia, Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia. In this regard, see especially
25. 1998. IPA Backgrounder, 10 (1) The most vociferous advocate of this position is Ron Brunton, who has consistently argued the line that successive Australian assimilation and removal policies did not constitute genocide. Among many items from Brunton, see especially his +ACI-Betraying the Victims: The 'Stolen Generations' Report,+ACI- Institute of Public Affairs (Sydney), It is the author's opinion that Brunton offers much rhetoric but no convincing evidence to challenge the essential points put in the current article
26. Crispin, J., December 18 1998. Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory December 18, 15–17. In the Matter of an Application for a Writ of Mandamus directed to Thompson+ADs- ex parte Nulyarimma - Ors (unreported)
27. Bird, Carmel, ed. 1998. The Stolen Children: Their Stories, 126Sydney: Random House.
28. Ibid..
29. Bartrop, Paul R., 1999. "Living within the Frontier: early Colonial Australia, Jews, and Aborigines," ”. In Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict, Edited by: Gilman, Sander L., and Shain, Milton. 91–110. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. For a perspective on Aboriginal-Jewish relations covering a different time period (the 19th century)
30. Hall, Richard. 1998. Black Armband Days: Truth from the Dark Side of Australia's Past, 8Sydney: Vintage.