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Duncan McNab, a Scottish Roman Catholic priest, was recognised as a Commissioner of Aboriginals. He arrived in Queensland during 1875, initiating a crusade against the Pacific Island labour trade. McNab’s efforts culminated in a petition to the Colonial Secretary in 1876 to grant reserves and individual family homesteads to Indigenous people.
In his petition, McNab enclosed applications for individual selections under the Crown Lands Act 1868 advocating that, as Aborigines “…had always the right of tillage and pasturage, they ought to be acknowledged, without expense, as the rightful owners of the specified homesteads.”
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 | | Letter from Father Duncan McNab to the Colonial Secretary in support of Indigenous rights, taken from ‘Correspondence relating to the Reservation of Land for the Use of the Aborigines’, 9 May 1876, Votes and Proceedings of the Queensland Legislative Assembly |
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1876 Four-stroke internal combustion engine invented by Nikolaus Otto |
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