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2011 - Theses - Flinders University

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White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha communityTracy SpencerVolume Three Appendices: Creative Life WritingSection C: Contact ZonePhotograph from Iga Warta DisplayBut no amount of determination would stem the flow of introduced disease. Despite theepidemic of measles making the pages of The Register in Adelaide, cries for proper medicalsupplies were met only with a kind of colonial sympathy: the venerable member for <strong>Flinders</strong>declared to the Parliament ‘It would be better to send out a trooper and shoot those aboriginesthan allow them to perish by lingering disease.’ 26Instead, anthropologists arrived to photograph ‘the dying race’.18

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