Conceived in Western Australia, Sansoni got a simple training as a private student at the Swan Native and Half-Caste Mission, before instructing himself to an impressive degree.
While working at the ports and on stations in the Ashburton and Gascoyne areas of Western Australia, Radnor Sansoni saw the brutish and barbarous practices used to mistreat, disappoint and oppress the nearby Aboriginal individuals. After The Times (London) and the Australia press distributed a record of the evil treatment of Aboriginal individuals in the Nor’- West of the State, He entered open civil argument about the issue with a letter to the press blaming the Colonial Secretary, Walter Kingsmill of resolved lip service and deception.
While prospecting in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, he watched broad starvation and malady among the neighborhood Aboriginal populace. He was so worried by what he saw that he ventured out to Perth and on February 8, 1906, he and the Goldfields MP, Patrick Lynch M.L.A. met with the State Premier, Mr C.H. Rason. He clarified that the Aboriginal individuals living on the eastern goldfields were in urgent need of sustenance and pharmaceutical and gave Premier Rason a letter marked by the nearby Justices of the Peace loaning their backing.
When Mrs. Daisy Bates started standing out as truly newsworthy with breathtaking stories blaming the Aboriginal individuals for cannibalism, Radnor Sansoni was one of not very many who challenged her affirmations. He censured her remark as “a shame on a little class of individuals whose position in the group was an unenviable one”.
