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Relationships with Aboriginal Women

The following paragraphs taken from "A Force Apart?" detail relationships between Aboriginal Women and NT Police members in a historical...

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Jackie Gordon

(from "A Force Apart?") A more recent example of the life of a police wife was that of Mrs Jackie Gordon, whose husband, John Gordon, was...

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Vicki Darken

(from "A Force Apart?") There are no extant records of the loneliness the early police wives felt, but life had hardly changed by 1945...

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Anna Mary Dow

(from "A Force Apart?") In the Territory, not only senior officers’ wives raised money for charity. Anna Mary Dow, who was born in 1869...

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Charlotte Georgina Foelsche

(from "A Force Apart?") Charlotte Georgina Foelsche, who preceded Anna Waters to the Northern Territory, apparently led a quieter life,...

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Anna Maria Woide Waters

(from "A Force Apart?") The senior officers’ wives became part of Darwin society and involved themselves in the various fund raising...

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DEANS, Joan Mary OAM

Joan Deans was the wife of bush policeman Frank Deans. Joan joined the Commonwealth Medical Service and was posted to Alice Springs...

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION Class of 1958 Bottom

Course of October 1961

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