I suggested in an earlier post there was censorship and government pressure to do as told.
This is what happened to Vogan when he reported honestly about Aboriginals.
When A.J. Vogan represented the callous slaughter of the indigenous Australians by the Queensland Native Police in his 1891 novel, Black Police, for example, it ‘virtually closed newspaper life in Australia'.
‘I wrote upon the unpleasant subject,’ he wrote to the Aborigines Protection Society, ‘out of a sense of duty I owed to my fellow countrymen … But it has done me such harm here—this meddling with the pet national sin of Australia that I am forced to seek fresh pastures'
