The Last Protector presents a compelling argument that the South Australian government illegally took Aboriginal children from their parents during the years between 1939 and 1954. Adelaide historian Cameron Raynes draws on extensive archival records, the contents of which have never before been available to the public.

“South Australia’s Aborigines Department under William Richard Penell, the last Chief Protector of Aborigines, operated in virtual secrecy throughout the mid twentieth century, hiding its unlawful actions through a combination of lies, silence and bluff. The present has finally caught up with it.”

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