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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 Three: Contact ZoneReproduced from ‘Challenging the Almighty’, UAM, 1994 p24First known as the Australian Aborigines Mission and later the United Aborigines Mission,the organisation attracted an assortment of mostly young and single men and women whooffered themselves for missionary work. The non-denominational collection of business men,spinsters and fundamentalist Christians self consciously knew themselves to be amongst thefew white Australians who cared about the plight of Aboriginal people. 75 It was true thatsome had already been turned down for the more glamorous mission fields of China or India,on the frontiers of Empire; for others, their vision encompassed only the inland horizons oftheir island home.48