Records the activities of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) missions and missionaries in the Northern Territory; discusses how issues such as Aboriginal culture and language, land rights, the removal of children from their familes and the nature of the gospel were dealt with; Church Missionary Association of Victoria set up mission at Roper River in response to the killings associated with the expansion of the pastoral industry in this area; attitudes of the missionaries; details of early bible translations and later work by the CMS; CMS during the era of the protection policy and them the assimilation policy; the Peace Expedition; the killing of Constable McColl and the subsequent trial of Dhakiyara; analyses the role of the CMS schools and dormitories in North Australia, in the light of the stolen generations; discusses the actions of CMS missionaries in relation to land rights, including CMS and BHP and the negotiation of mining royalites for Groote Eylandt people; discusses CMS submission to the Stolen Generations Inquiry