In White Christ Black Cross, the author interweaves his own more than 20 years\' personal experience with Yarrabah and other Queensland Aboriginal communities along with e voices of Aboriginal people, missionaries and those sat in the pews and on subcommittees and Boards in the cities, removed from the reality of the missions. The author embeds the historical influences and impacts of the missions in shaping Christianity in Aboriginal Australia in the reality of frontier violence, government control, segregation and neglect