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The Conversation AU
Friday essay: dreaming of a 'white Christmas' on the Aboriginal missionsThe Conversation AUAboriginal missions, which existed across
Australia until the 1970s, are notorious for their austerity.
Aboriginal people lived on meagre rations - flour, sugar, tea and tobacco - and later, token wages. At some missions, schoolgirls wore hessian sacks
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