Victor George Carrington was an Australian
administrator. He was the second and last Government Resident of
Central Australia, the short lived Territory of Australia which re-merged with the
Territory of North Australia in 1931 to form the
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
.
Following the reunification Carrington was designated as Deputy Administrator, based in Alice Springs, until he was again re-designated to being a District Officer in 1937.
In 1934 Carrington was instrumental in prosecuting, Gordon Keith Freeman, the superintendent at
The Bungalow
The Bungalow was an institution for Aboriginal children established in 1914 in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. It existed at several locations in Alice Springs (then called Stuart), Jay Creek and the Alice Springs Tele ...
for rape.
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Administrators of the Northern Territory
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