Includes statements about colonisation and resistance to white settlement p. 16-17, 45; the Aboriginal word 'mallee' p. 31; employment on stations 33, 34, 42, 44-47, 95; mission stations 44; settlement at Coranderrk 45; pictures 'An Aborigine on the Hawkesbury [River] with his garden' p. 17, 'Going onto the land' p. 34, 'Aborigines sowing a field', 'Aborigines building a stockyard', and 'Native Mission Station, South Australia, 1886' p. 44, 'Aboriginal workers', and 'Aborigines training hops' p. 45, 'Aboriginal stockmen' p. 46, 'Aboriginal stockmen', and 'Aboriginal station employees' p. 47.