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Evidence of drunkenness, brawling and assault given by Taft
are based on arrests for these categories placed at more than ten
times the rate for the Western Australian population as a wholeɪ.

IX.2 Process II Aborigines stereotype Aborigines

IX.21 Typification in Aboriginal writings

In general, Aborigines have only begun to commit to paper their
.                               2

own views in the last decade . Written evidence of their opinion may
be gained from such writings as Because a white man’ll never do it;
Living Black - Blacks talk to Kevin Gilbert, (Gilbert 1973, 1977);
Black Viewpoints (ed. Tatz 1975); Mikurrunya, Strelley Community
Newsletter (1979 - ); A Bastard like me Perkins, 1975); My People;
Stradbroke Dreamtime, (Walker 1970, 1972); From the very depths:
a black view of white racism (Watson, 1973).

Gilbert (1977:1) believes that urban Aborigines theorize about
.         positive differences of culture which have no basis in reality:

...together with many sympathetic whites ...
(Aborigines) embrace and propagate a number of
myths about themselves: that Aborigines share
freely, that they have a strong feeling of community;
that they don’t care about money and lack the
materialism of white society; that they care
more deeply for their children than do white parents.

Gilbert (1977:1) believes that these positive stereotypes of
Aborigines are not reflected in real life:

Taft’s figures show arrests. They do not necessarily reflect
the incidence of this behaviour. See also Gale, Fay (1975:227, 233)
for statistics concerning this situation in South Australia, and
Bailey, Rebecca, 1981 unpublished manuscript.

2

Rowley (1971:79) documents early writings, among them a manifesto
of the Aborigines Association 1938. Jenkins (op.cit:153) claims
that James Ngunaitponi was certainly the assistant author for Taplin∙s
book on the folklore, manners, customs and language of the South
Australian Aborigine. David Ngunaitponi gave a lecture to the
Royal Geographical Society in 1914 in Melbourne, (Jenkin, op.cit:252).

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