Written assignment
1) Summary

Mr. Neville is giving a speech about the remaining aborigines. He is the Chief Protector of Aborigines. During his speech he mentions a very important question asked by a group of white men. ‘’Will my children be black if I marry a black?’’ the answer is no. The white blood simply stamps out the black color. The aboriginals is about to be bread out.
But Mr. Neville and his organization want to help the remaining aborigines. At the Moore River Native Settlement they have trained hundreds of half-caste children. They are trained as domestic servants and farm laborers.
Mr. Neville is determined to help the natives.

2) Commenting on the quote
In my personal opinion it doesn’t seem like it is a place were it benefits the remaining aborigines. Although Mr. Neville claims it does. When you remove an old culture from an up rising culture (the Christian culture) it will become difficult for the aborigines, when they once are trained and ready for the real life, to settle down. Eventually when they are ready they can’t adjust to the white peoples culture. For one reason, they were born in it for maybe a few days before they were taken away from it. So for me it seems more like a ‘’free prison’’.

I think it would be better if they were trained and at the meantime free. I do understand what Mr. Neville says about the marriages and the aborigines are about to been bred out. But it just shouldn’t matter this much.

3) Discussing 2, 3 and 4.
The Journal has illustrated the white man’s burden by Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard is writing how the white men came to help the wild, untamed and devilish black people. They worked for them. They ceased down all sickness. They helped to end the ongoing wars. They pulled out an "education" plan for the black people. All that to help the natives, for almost nothing in return. But they succeed.
Also to be mentioned is that the white men were carefully chosen by their parents and were only the best of the best. The painting by The Journal shows how a white man is helping a black weakened man out of the war zone and into the school to get an education. In the background you can see the white men’s ships. That is because they arrived by ship. In fact if you look closely you can see the parts of the Union Jack on top of the school. That is because the white men actually were British.

The other painting is a poster from 1885. This can also be referred to Rudyard Kipling’s poem; the white man’s Burden. Rudyard writes that when the white people arrived there were wars. In the beginning when the white men tried to stop the war they became the victims of war and were killed and eaten by the cannibals. These black people are described as half devil and half child. So maybe you could interpret it like this. They were cannibals because they were half devils. And the other half a child, so they ate them because they just didn’t knew better.

Rudyard writes the white men should learn in patience to abide. Maybe the first people who came to the island didn’t do just that. But you could interpret it as they learned it by time.