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Aboriginal activists demand acceptance

Russell McGregor

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Contemporary Aboriginal activists applauded the New Deal. William Cooper, Secretary of the Australian Aborigines' League, called it 'the Aboriginal Magna Carta' and urged Prime Minister Menzies to implement it without delay, the emergency of war notwithstanding. Cooper was so impressed with McEwen's policy innovation that when, in 1939, Menzies began selection of a new Cabinet, he wrote to the prime minister requesting that McEwen's policy momentum be maintained: 'Will you please select a minister for the Interior who will continue to maintain his administration with the desire to fully help the natives into full British Culture?'

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Contemporary Aboriginal activists applauded the New Deal. William Cooper, Secretary of the Australian Aborigines' League, called it 'the Aboriginal Magna Carta' and urged Prime Minister Menzies to implement it without delay, the emergency of war notwithstanding. Cooper was so impressed with McEwen's policy innovation that when, in 1939, Menzies began selection of a new Cabinet, he wrote to the prime minister requesting that McEwen's policy momentum be maintained: 'Will you please select a minister for the Interior who will continue to maintain his administration with the desire to fully help the natives into full British Culture?'

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Contemporary Aboriginal activists applauded the New Deal. William Cooper, Secretary of the Australian Aborigines' League, called it 'the Aboriginal Magna Carta' and urged Prime Minister Menzies to implement it without delay, the emergency of war notwithstanding. Cooper was so impressed with McEwen's policy innovation that when, in 1939, Menzies began selection of a new Cabinet, he wrote to the prime minister requesting that McEwen's policy momentum be maintained: 'Will you please select a minister for the Interior who will continue to maintain his administration with the desire to fully help the natives into full British Culture?'

Key concepts: Cabinet (room), Prime minister, League, Political science, Law, Administration (probate law), Select committee, Public administration

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