Civilisation or extinction: the destiny of the Aborigines in the white Australian imagination, c.1880-1939

This thesis explores the intellectual underpinnings of the belief, widely held in nineteenth and early twentieth century Australia, that the Aborigines were doomed to extinction. In the process, it explains how the prediction pertained to a category of persons which was much more narrowly defined than that which is today designated 'Aboriginal'. From this, it goes on to examine the declining credibility which was awarded to the notion of inevitable extinction, particularly in the period between the two World Wars.

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