Melbourne: Cassell Australia, 1973. X, 158 pp., list of abbreviations, selected secondary sources (bibliography) and index. Illustrated card wrappers. Slight fading on the wrappers, with some scuffing on the edges. This book is a description of the gulf between the Colonial Office policy on aboriginals and the attitude of the colonists within the first sixty years of settlement of Australia. The colonial office were instructed to treat indigenous peoples with friendliness and kindliness, yet by 1850 " it was generally accepted that the Australian aborigines were a dying race; moreover, that they had to die because they had shown themselves incapable of adapting to white man's civilisation." . Using contemporary resources Ms Woolmington shows how this attitude shift came about.. First Edition. Card. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo. History.