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Early missionary activity has been significant for aborigines by contibuting to both repression and cultural survival. Within the missions, aborigines were offered refuge from the violence of the frontier; often however, the price of safety was oppression of their belief systems and culture. The first person to be appointed as a missionary to the aborigines was Reverend William Walker in 1821. Walker believed the nomadic style of the aborigines was not compatible with Christianity so subsequently, he influenced churches to begin establishing mission stations in the 1820s. They were to train the aboriginal people in civilisation and "christian ways". In 1838, a new policy