Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Metric Conversions -- Acknowledgements -- Note to Readers -- 1 Aboriginal Mission Tourism in Nineteenth Century Victoria -- 2 Tourism at Coranderrk -- 3 Researchers and Coranderrk -- 4 International Dignitaries and Their Impressions of Coranderrk -- 5 Journalists and Correspondents and Coranderrk -- 6 William Barak and Coranderrk Tourism -- 7 Coranderrk, Photographs and Tourist Postcards -- 8 Tourism at Coranderrk After Its Closure In 1924 -- Index

This book is concerned with the history of tourism at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station at Healesville, northeast of Melbourne, which functioned as a government reserve from 1863 until its closure in 1924. At Coranderrk, Aboriginal mission interests and tourism intersected and the station became a 'showplace' of Aboriginal culture and the government policy of assimilation. The Aboriginal residents responded to tourist interest by staging cultural performances that involved boomerang throwing and traditional ways of lighting fires and by manufacturing and selling traditional artifacts. Whenever government policy impacted adversely on the Aboriginal community, the residents of Coranderrk took advantage of the opportunities offered to them by tourism to advance their political and cultural interests. This was particularly evident in the 1910's and 1920's when government policy moved to close the station.

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