today if you called an Australian Aboriginal an abo you might get a very hostile reaction but at the turn of the century it was considered acceptable, with this newspaper clipping naming all white settlers by name, but all indigenous peoples as simply ABO

the photos are of my great great (great?) grandfather, one of the first white settlers in Cairns, arriving there in 1876

kit: Rememebrance of Times Past by Nutkin Tailz Designs at nuts4digi