New Deal for Aborigines
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The New Deal for Aborigines was a landmark Australian federal government policy statement on Indigenous Australians. The policy was announced in December 1938 by interior minister John McEwen and detailed in a white paper released in February 1939. It provided for Indigenous people to be granted full civil rights in conjunction with a process of cultural assimilation.
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