It was widely used in the 19th- and early-20th-century Australian laws to refer to the offspring of European and Aboriginal parents. For example, the "Aborigines Protection Act 1886" mentioned half-castes habitually associating with or living with an "Aborigine" (another term no longer favoured), while the Aborigines Amendments between 1934 and 1937 refer to it in various terms, including as a person with less than quadroon blood. Later literature, such as by Norman Tindale, refers to it in terms of half, quadroon, octoroon, and other hybrids.