Domestic Service and Frontier Feminism: The Call for a Woman Visitor to "Half-Caste" Girls and Women in Domestic Service, Adelaide, 1925-1928

142. "White and Black," Oaylightt 30 November 1927, 255. The interview was on the occasion of her history-making appointment to the Advisory Council. "Larrikin" is an Australian term to describe unruly young men; it had quite negative connotations at the time, being associated with white working-class urban male degeneracy.

143. Enclosed and dated 8 July 1930; copy of Cooke's paper for submission to forthcoming second Pan-Pacific Women's Conference: AFA CF SRG 139/1/195. In the same breath Cooke also spoke of the Boarding Home in Adelaide, which "helps safeguard [Aboriginal women] against the city's temptations."

144. With Start supporting their "honest, sincere, and just" claims, all three would be released from government supervision. The Chief Protector referred also to the "satisfactory" reports the "Lady Inspector" had provided on the girls, but more pragmatically, he recommended the three girls be "given their liberty, especially as, if they develop on rebellious lines, it would in practice be impossible to control them at their present age": Garnett to Stott, 13 April 1927 (copy); Home and Territories Department Memo, 29 October 1927: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846. In later applications, Garnett would be more resistant.

145. see Reports of Visitor: Letterbook Relating to the NT Protector of Aborigines 1927-1939, GRG 52/8: State Archives of South Australia, Adelaide. see also Austin, I Can Picture the Old Home, 81.

146. Austin, I Can Picture the Old Home, 205-211.

147. see Holland, "The Campaign for Women Protectors," 31, 34. see also Paisley, Loving Protection, 88,107.

148. see Haskins, One Bright Spot, 200-201. see also Holland, "The Campaign for Women Protectors," 36-37; Paisley, Loving Protection, 132-141.

149. Quoted in Barbara Cummings, Take This Child ... : From Kahltn Compound to the Retta Dixon Children's Home (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1990), 32 (my emphasis).

150. Cummings, Take This Child, 32.

151. J. A. Carrodus (secretary to the Minister for the Interior, the renamed department of Home and Territories, c. 1940), quoted in Julie Marcus, "The Beauty, Simplicity and Honour of Truth: Olive Pink in the 19405," first in Their Field: Women and Australian Anthropology, ed. Julie Marcus (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), 117; see also Haskins, One Bright Spot, 200-201.

152. Holland, "The Campaign for Women Protectors," 34; Paisley, Loving Protection, 92.

153. Ann Laura Stoler, "Matters of Intimacy as Matters of State: A Response," The Journal of American History 88, no. 3 (December 2001): 893.

VICTORIA HASKINS is a lecturer in Australian history at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, and a former curator of Australian social history at the National Museum of Australia. She has published widely on colonialism, gender, and race relations history in Australia, including the book One Bright Spot (Palgrave, 2005) and an edited collection with Anna Cole and Fiona Paisley, titled Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005). Her current research projects include a collaborative study of relationships between Aboriginal men and white women, a gendered analysis of the American choreographer Beth Dean's performance of Aboriginality in the ballet "Corroboree," and histories of Indigenous domestic service in settler societies.

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