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2 The ‘Lived Experience’ of Exemption

passed in 1983 by the Wran Labor Government

Don’t cry

Her academically innovative book reveals the resourceful and often poignant ways that Indigenous Australians involved themselves in the coloniser's paper culture

White Christ Black Cross AAS Journal 2 The ‘Lived Experience’ ofNoel Loos frames the churches missionary outreach to Aboriginal people within the reality of frontier violence, government control, segregation and neglect. Aboriginal people on the missions responded to white Christianity as part of their enforced cultural change and within the missions changing circumstances. As missionary control diminished, they responded more overtly and autonomously: some regarding Christianity as irrelevant, others adopting it