abo cannibals

>In 1937, a reverend in the Kimberley offered a "baby bonus" to Aboriginal families as a deterrent against infanticide and to increase the birthrate of the local Indigenous population.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/85590904

>Infanticide in Aboriginal Australia -Gillian Cowlishaw
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40330368?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

>James Dawson wrote a passage about infanticide amongst Indigenous people in the western district of Victoria, which stated that "Twins are as common among them as among Europeans; but as food is occasionally very scarce, and a large family troublesome to move about, it is lawful and customary to destroy the weakest twin child, irrespective of sex. It is usual also to destroy those which are malformed."
>He also wrote "When a woman has children too rapidly for the convenience and necessities of the parents, she makes up her mind to let one be killed, and consults with her husband which it is to be. As the strength of a tribe depends more on males than females, the girls are generally sacrificed. The child is put to death and buried, or burned without ceremony; not, however, by its father or mother, but by relatives. No one wears mourning for it. Sickly children are never killed on account of their bad health, and are allowed to die naturally."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dawson_(activist)

>an article from 2007 that discusses how accounts of violence, sexual abuse and infanticide was censored throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/aboriginal-violence-was-sanitised/story-e6frg6nf-1111113906387

>Another article that mentions aboriginal infanticide as common practice.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16513617

>Australian aboriginal cannibalism
http://www.warriors.egympie.com.au/cannibalism.html

The Sydney Morning Herald Sat 28 May 1938
>This is not surprising as the aborigines of Moreton Bay were proved cannibals, eating the bodies of any member of the tribe who died in "good condition" no matter from what cause.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17469346?searchTerm=aboriginal&searchLimits=

Here's an article from 29 May 1926 about the what is now know as "the stolen generation" aka worst crime in australian history
>At Bomaderry there is a well-equipped Home for such children, where they are sheltered, clothed, fed, and trained in order that they may '
afterwards fill positions as domestic servants, in homes in Avhich they are boarded out by the Aborigines' Protection Board.
>Those who know anything of aboriginal camp life will realise what it means when these children are transferred from such conditions to a home where warmth, comfort, and training, are bestowed on the helpless little ones.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155364805

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) Tue 4 Jul 1939

>Infanticide is undoubtedly prac-
tised
>Twins are usually killed immediately as some-
thing which is unnatural. To a native such practices are not cruel, but a matter of commonsense
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49456695

Northern Standard Tue 4 Jul 1939
This refers to a process where aboriginal girls have their genitals mutilated and are gangraped to enter into womanhood.

>The operation on virgins, referred to by Mr. Edgar, is said to be commonly performed in other part of the world. . That may be so, but the
procedure among certain aboriginal tribes is highly objectionable.

>According to Spencer and Gillen, a girl arriving at marriageable age, usually about 14 or 15, is operated, on- by" certain males who stand in
some relationship to the girl and her future husband. When the operation has been performed these men have access to the girl according to some order of precedence. The ceremony is often performed during the progress of an ordinary corroboree, when, during the daytime, the men habitually assemble at the corroboree ground. On the day
following, the girl may be sent to the same men, and after that she becomes the special wife of the man to whom she has been allotted.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49456695

Here's an amusing article that discusses the difference between abos and negroes from Thu 22 Apr 1875.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/40089087
>It has been the custom to talk very strongly about the Australian aborigines as the lowest, most depraved, and least intellectual of all races. The advocates of that opinion will be rather astonished at the statement by a good authority that although the Australian blacks and the Bushmen of South Africa are distinguished by the fewness of numerals in their language, which is generally regarded as an indication of low civilization, it is probable "that both are
at all events nearer akin to ourselves in their languages and intellectual life than other races who far exceed them in point of civilization, e.g., negroes.

>The mythological character of a good portion of the traditionary lore of both Australians and Bushmen is a distinctive characteristic not met
with among the negroes, but only among nations who claim nearer kinship to ourselves. In the faculty of imagination Bushmen certainly, and Australians probably, far exceed anything that we meet with among the negroes.

An article about aboriginal surgery Fri 29 Sep 1933.

"I remember one abo. being in a nasty scrape — in short, his 'vitals protruded. Little notice was taken except by the old -man of the tribe,
who was evidently the, tribe surgeon. He pushed the protrusion back again, obtained some handsful of mud from the water-hole, dressed the wound with it, and laid him in the shade. By all the rules of 'civilised' surgery- Binghi's' , wound ought to have become septic. It refused to do so. He was up and about again in ten days, and although he seemed a bit tired on the foot for another ten days, his bomerang came flying back to him afterwards."