Chapter on Aborigines; European contact and conflict; tribal fights; fish traps; possum skins; childrens games.

A comprehensive literature survey of descriptions of Aboriginal childrens toys and games; tables of bibliographic references to types of toys, and locations of toys in museum collections in Australia.

Includes a summary of information on the Riverina tribes, especially Wiradjuri; their way of life, and effects of white contact.

Hume and Hovells expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip based on their diaries, publications, correspondence and other contemporary writings; diaries include information on Aborigines encountered, their reactions to whites and comments on aspects of their life-style, camps and appearance.

During the 19th century, Catholicism found itself engaged in an increasingly bitter conflict with the liberal-secularist spirit of the age. The struggle involved the attempt to resist and anti-intellectualism, totalitarianism and the subversion of religion, both within and without the Church.