Mr. Neville Says Aborigines are Closely Related to Us
It will come as rather a surprise to the average “White Australian” to learn that the Australian aboriginal is racially related to him.
Mr. A. O. Neville. Chief Protector of Aborigines under the State Aborigines Department, said today:— ‘The Australian aborigines are of Caucasian origin and related to us. They antedate us, and are of the same stock. They are not ‘negrito.’ This means that with their inter-marriage with whites, the white will gradually predominate over the black. ‘The decision made by the Common-wealth Government to adopt as a defi-nite policy the encouragement of mar-riages of white men and half caste women with a view to raising the stan-dard of mixed blood to that of the whites, is nothing now in this State. I have foreseen it for years,’ and sponsored it as the only natural outcome of the posi-tion.”
“The blacks will have to go white. It is exemplified in the quarter-castes, and by the gradual absorption of the native Australian black race by the white. I have noticed no throw-backs in such cases hitherto.”
Daily News, Perth, Thursday 8 June 1933, page 2