During the first half of the twentieth century white Australians, experts, and laypeople alike, became increasingly concerned about miscegenation. The Queensland state government, alone of all the Australian states and territories, favoured a policy of racial segregation as a method to manage miscegenation. This paper examines how ongoing societal concerns about the health (both moral and physical) of Aboriginal people in Queensland, overlaid with the supposed threat of miscegenation, prompted the government to intensify its efforts to regulate the lives of Aboriginal women and girls during the interwar period. I draw on examples from Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement in southern Queensland, particularly the dormitories, and discuss the role intimate matters---the domestic, the hygienic, the sexual---played in the management of health and race during the 1920s--1940s.
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