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Readings in Australian History

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The anti-apartheid movements in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand
by Peter Limb - The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 3, Unisa Press, South Africa Tsehai Publishers, New York 2015
The Bone Collectors
by Paul Daley - the Guardian 14th June 2014
Promise of Mabo not yet realised
by Noel Pearson - the Australian 29 May 2010
The Indigenous Resisitance 1900 - 2000
by Gary Foley 2010
The Incivility of Marcia Langton:
by Geoffrey Partington Quadrant Volume LIV Number 4 April 2010
The resource curse
by Marcia Langton - Griffith REVIEW Edition 28: 2010 Still the Lucky Country?
Some competition and consumer issues in the Indigenous visual arts industry
by J. C. Altman, et al CAEPR DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 235 (2009)
State of the World's Indigenous Peoples
by Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN New York 2009
Australia -whose land?
The Second Annual John Saunders Lecture - Presented by Dr Peter Adam Principal, Ridley College, Melbourne 10 August 2009
A Dark History: Thoughts on Australia
by John Martin - Arena august-september 2008
duplicity and deceit: rudd's apology to the stolen generations
by Crystal McKinnon with Gary Foley Melbourne historial journal 2008 Edition (Vol. 36)
Theft in the name of science
by Paul Turnbull - Griffith REVIEW Edition 21 2008
Creating a legal identity: Aboriginal people and the assimilation census]
by Heather Douglas and John Chesterman Journal of Austra!ian Studies. Vol. 32, No.3, September 2008,
Tilting at doctrine in a changing world: the three editions of Henry Reynolds' The Law of the Lalld
by David Ritter - Journal of Australian Studies, Vol. 32, No.3, September 2008,
How race became everything: Australia and polygenism
by Kay Anderson and Colin Perrin - Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol. 31 No. 5 July 2008
Radical Hope, or Death by a Thousand Cuts?: The Future for Indigenous Australians
by Michael O'Loughlin - ARENA journal no. 29/30, 2008
"Hangin' Out" and "Yarnin'" : Reflecting on the Experience of Collecting Oral Histories
by Lorina Barker - History Australia. Vol 5. Number 1. 2008
Faraway Downs fantasy resonates close to home
by Marcia Langton - Sunday Age (Melbourne) 23rd November 2008
The rage epidemic
by Germaine Greer, Sydney Morning Herald 2nd August 2008
Imperial Critics: Moravian Missionaries in the British Colonial World
by Felicity Jensz in Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History 2008
Moving the Genocide Debate Beyond the History Wars·
by A. Dirk Moses - Australian Journal ofPolitics and History: Volume 54, Number 2, 2008, pp. 248-270.
Sorry, and not sorry, in Australia: how the apology to the stolen generations buried a history of genocide
by Tony Barta Journal of Genocide Research (2008), 10(2),June, 201-214
After the Intervention
by John Hinkson ARENA journal no. 29/30, 2008
The Health and Welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
by Brian Pink, Australian Bureau of Statistics and Penny Allbon, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2008
Reporting Back: The Northern Territory Intervention One Year On
by Jeff McMullen - Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal Sept/Oct Vol 32 No. 5 (2008)
Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories
by Ingereth Macfarlane and Mark Hannah (editors) ANU E Press Aboriginal History Monograph 16 (2007)
Dispossessed, Dispirited and Diseased: Aboriginal Health and Why Racists Can't Fix It
by Andrew Gunn - New Doctor 85, May 2007
Robert Manne, the Apology and Genocide
by Patrick Wolfe, Arena Magazine 94, April-May 2008
Personal Stories: Indigenous Activism - Black Power
by Sam Watson - Queensland Review Vol. 14 no.1 2007
Personal Stories: Indigenous Activism - Black Power
by Les Collins - Queensland Review Vol. 14 no.1 2007
Alcheringa: Invisible Aborigines on TV
by Chris Healy Australian Television History: ACH 26 2007
Trapped in the Aboriginal reality show
by Marcia Langton - Griffith REVIEW Edition 19: 2007 Re-imagining Australia
A History of Indigenous Futures: Accounting for Indigenous Art and Media
by Faye Ginsburg and Fred Myers - ABORIGINAL HISTORY 2006 VOL 30
Mortality and morbidity in prisoners after release from prison in Western Australia 1995 - 2003
by M. Hobbs, K. Krazlan, S. Ridout, Q. Mai, M. Knuiman and R. Chapman - Australian Institute of Criminology 2006
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
by Patrick Wolfe - Journal of Genocide Research (2006), 8(4), December, 387-409
discourses of genocide in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and Australia
by Norbert Finzsch - Patterns of Prejudice,39:2,97-115 (2006)
Riots, Policing and Social Disadvantage: Learning from the Riots in Macquarie Fields and Redfern
by Don Weatherburn - Current Issues In Criminal Justice Volume 18 Number 1 July 2006
They Used to Call it Sandy Blight: Aboriginal Health and Censorship in Australia
by Jilpia Nappaljari Jones, Leila Smith and Gordon Briscoe - Australian Aboriginal Studies 2006 / 2
Rob Riley, a life lived in the cause of liberation
by Barry Healy Green Left Weekly, June 7, 2006
The Impact of Whiteness on the 1991-2000 Australian Reconciliation Process
by Andrew Gunstone - Paper presented at the 'Historicising Whiteness Conference', University of Melbourne, 22-24 November, 2006
'Never forgotten' Pearl Gibbs (Gambanyi)
by Stephanie Gilbert, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005
Imagine the Future by Learning from the Past
Speech by Chris Sarra to the Communities in Control Conference Melbourne, 7th June 2005
White Redemption Rituals: Repatriating Aboriginal Secret-Sacred Objects
by Philip Batty - Arena journal no.23, 2005
'In the interests of our people': the influence of Garveyism on the rise of Australian Aboriginal political activism
by John Maynard ABORIGINAL HISTORY 2005 VOL 29
The Trouble with Empathy
by David Burchell - Griffith Review Edition 8 - People Like Us 2005
The extinction of rigour: a comment on 'The extinction of the Australian Pygmies' by Keith Windschuttle and Tim Gillin
by Michael Westaway and Peter Hiscock ABORIGINAL HISTORY 2005 VOL 29
The Changing Politics of Miscegenation
by Michael Rolls - Aboriginal History 2005 Vol 29
Modern by analogy: modernity, Shoah and the Tasmanian genocide
by Jesse Shipway - Journal of Genocide Research (2005), 7(2), June, 205-219
Raphaeš l Lemkin's 'Tasmania': an introduction1
by Ann Curthoys Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2005
"They will be hunted down like wild beasts and destroyed!": a comparative study of genocide in California and Tasmania
by Ashley Riley Sousa - Journal of Genocide Research (2004), 6(2), June, 193-209
Germaine Greer on the resonse to White Fella Jumpup: The Shortest Way to Nationhood
by Germaine Greer - Quarterly Essay 14 2004
Contextualising Church Involvement In 'The First Aboriginal Race Riot'
by Meredith Lake National Library of Australia News, Vol. 14, No. 10, July 2004: 10-12
Finding Foley
by Diana Ward published in SPINACH 7 in May 2004
'Backroads' chapter from "Phillip Noyce"
by Ingo Petzke
Pan Macmillan Australia 2004
An Essay in disappointment: the Aboriginal-Jewish relationship
by Colin Tatz - Aboriginal History 2004 Vol 28
The end of ATSIC and the future administration of Indigenous affairs
by Angela Pratt & Scott Bennett 2004 - PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY - The Current Issues Brief No. 4 2004-05
Patterns of frontier genocide 1803-1910: the Aboriginal Tasmanians, the Yuki of California, and the Herero of Namibia
by Benjamin Madley -Journal of Genocide Research (2004), 6(2)
An Essay in Disappointment: The Aboriginal-Jewish Relationship
by Colin Tatz Aboriginal History 2004 Vol 28
Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History : a View from the Other Side
by Vicki Grieves - Labour History Number 85 November 2003
The Right Book for the Right Time?
by Lyndall Ryan - Labour History Number 85 November 2003
'Many deeds of terror': Windschuttle and Musquito
by Naomi Parry - Labour History Number 85 November 2003
Mapping Australian Postcolonial Landscapes: From Resistance to Reconciliation?
by Mark Harris - Law Text Culture Vol 7 2003
Euphemism, Banality, Propaganda: Anthropology, public debate and Indigenous communities
by Gillian Cowlishaw Australian Aboriginal Studies 2003
Kevin Cook: From building sitesto Aboriginal education
in A few rough reds: stories of rank and file organising Edited by Alexander, Hal and Griffiths, Phil, (2003)
Hiding the bodies: the myth of the humane colonization of Australia
by John Harris - Aboriginal History 2003 Vol 27
Australian History - Lifting haze or descending fog?
John Maynard - Aboriginal History 2003 Vol 27
Vision, voice and influence: the rise of the AAPA
John Maynard - - Australian Historical Studies 121, 2003
'Noble and Savages' on the Television
by Frances Peters-Little - ABORIGINAL HISTORY 2003 VOL 27
White Fella Jumpup: The Shortest Way to Nationhood
by Germaine Greer - Quarterly Essay 11 2003
Lillian Holt - response to White Fella Jumpup: The Shortest Way to Nationhood
by Lillian Holt - Quarterly Essay 12 2003
The Aboriginal movement in power, profit and protest: Australian social movements and globilisation
Burgmann,V. The Aboriginal movement in power, profit and protest: Australian social movements and globilisation, Allen & Unwin, 2003, Chapter 2, pp.44-97
Marcia Langton's response to White Fella Jumpup: The Shortest Way to Nationhood
by Marcia Langton - Quarterly Essay 12 2003
Tony Birch's response to White Fella Jumpup: The Shortest Way to Nationhood
by Tony Birch - Quarterly Essay 12 2003
Of a 'contested ground' and an 'indelible stain'
by L. Veracini - Aboriginal History 2003 Vol 27
The Abacus of History
by Tony Birch - Australian Book Review October 2003
Absorbing the 'Aboriginal problem': controlling interracial marriage in Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
by Katherine Ellinghaus - Aboriginal History 2003 Vol 27
The Fabrication Of Aboriginal History
Address to the Sydney Institute by Keith Windschuttle 11 February 2003
The Abacus of History
by Tony Brich Australian Book Review October 2003
Reviewing the History Wars
by Stuart Macintyre Labour History Number 85 November 2003
Keith Windschuttle And Aboriginal History
by R. J. Stove - National Observer Autumn 2003
Aboriginal Health in Australia: Some Historical Observations and Contemporary Issues
by Naomi Mayers - New Doctor 77, Winter 2002
Does Australian History Have a Future?
by Ann Curthoys - Australian Historical Studies 118, 2002
The Freedom Ride - Its Significance Today
Lecture by Prof Ann Curthoys at the National Museum of Australia - 4 Sept 2002
Too Early Yet or Not Soon Enough? - Reflections on Sharing Histories as Process
- by Heather Goodall - Australian Historical Studies 118, 2002
A Liberal 'Respect for Small Property' - Paul Hasluck and the 'Landless Proletariat' in PNG 1951-63
by Huntley Wright - Australian Historical Studies 119, 2002
A New Deal? Indigenous developmentand the politics of recovery
by Marcia Langton - Dr Charles Perkins AO Memorial Oration delivered at The University of Sydney - 4 October 2002
'Breed out the Colour' or the Importance of Being White
by Russell McGregor - Australian Historical Studies 120, 2002
History is Never Bloodless - Getting it wrong after One Hundred Years of Federation
- by Tony Birch - Australian Historical Studies 118, 2002
Clio or Janus? - Historians and the Stolen Generations
by Peter Read - Australian Historical Studies 118, 2002
Conceptual blockages and definitional dilemmas in the 'racial century': genocides of indigenous peoples and the Holocaust
by A. D. Moses - Patterns of Prejudice (2002),36:4,7 - 36
Cover-Up And Denial Of Genocide: Australia, the USA, East Timor, and the Aborigines
by Ben Kiernan - Critical Asian Studies34:2 (2002) , 163-192
The McLean Report: legitimising Victoria's new assimilationism
by Corinne Manning ABORIGINAL HISTORY 2002 VOL 26
Stolen Generations testimony: trauma, historiography, and the question of 'truth'
by Rosanne Kennedy ABORIGINAL HISTORY 2001 VOL 25
Genocide: the distance between law and life
by Larissa Behrendt - Aboriginal History 2001 VOL 25
Indigenocide and the Massacre of Aboriginal History by Raymond Evans and Bill Thorpe - Overland.l63.2001
The Holocaust, the Aborigines, and the bureaucracy of destruction: an Australian dimension of genocide
by Paul R. Bartrop - Journal of Genocide Research (2001), 3(1), 75-87
Coming to terms with genocidal pasts in comparative perspective: Germany and Australia
by A. Dirk Moses Aboriginal History 2001 VOl 25
Confronting Australian genocide
by Colin TatzAboriginal History 2001 VOL 25
Discourses of genocide in Germany and Australia: a linked history
by Tony Barta - Aboriginal History 2001 VOL 25
The Holocaust, the Aborigines, and the bureaucracy of destruction: an Australian dimension of genocide
by Paul R. Bartrop - Journal of Genocide Research (2001), 3(1), 75-87
Collapsing Australian Architecture: the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
by Gregory Cowan - Fresh Cuts: New Talents 2001
Stolen Children, Invisible Mothers and Unspeakable Stories
by Denise Cuthbert - Social Semiotics, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2001
Genocide: definitions, questions, settler-colonies
by Ann Curthoys and John Docker - Aboriginal History 2001 Vol 25
The Stolen Generations and genocide: Robert Manne's In denial: the Stolen Generations and the Right
by Bain Atrwood - Aboriginal History 2001 VOL 25
The Stolen Generations and genocide: Robert Mannes's 'In Denial: the stolen Generations and the Right'
- by Bain Attwood ABORIGINAL HISTORY 2001 VOL 25
Rethinking the Origins of Terra Nullius
by Merete Borch - Australian Historical Studies 117, 2001
The Road to Native Title: Aboriginal Rights and the ALP 1973 -1996
by Gary Foley 14 June 2001
Witnesses from the Conference Floor: Oral History and FCAATSI
by Sue Taffe Fresh Cuts: New Talents 2001
Genocide in Australia
by Andrew Markus - Aboriginal History 2001 Vol 25
Black Power in Redfern 1968 - 1972
by Gary Foley 5th October 2001
'endless trouble and agitation' : Aboriginal Activism in the Protestionist Era
by Robert Foster - Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia No 28 2000
From Wattie Creek to Wattie Creek: an oral historical approach to the Gurindji walk-off
by Minoru Hokari - Aboriginal History 2000 VOL 24
Participation and representation in ATSIC elections: a ten-year perspective
- W. Sanders, J. Taylor and K. Ross CAPER ANU 2000
Namatjira and the Burden of Citizenship
Julie T. Wells and Michael F. Christie - Australian Historical Studies 114, 2000
Making a Difference: a 1960s partnership opposing racial discrimination
by Sue Taffe - Overland 161 2000
Cannibalism: A white colonist myth?
by Geoffrey Partington - Quadrant May 2000
Namatjira and the Burden of Citizenship
by Julie T. Wells and Michael Christie - Australian Historical Studies 114, 2000
Savagery and Urbanity: Struggles over Aboriginal Housing, Redfern, 1970-73
by Kay Anderson in Read, Peter (Editor). Settlement: A History of Australian Indigenous Housing. Aboriginal Studies Press, 2000
An antipodean genocide? The origins of the genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia
by A. Dirk Moses -Journal of Genocide Research (2000), 2(1), 89-106
From Wattie Creek to Wattie Creek: an oral historical approach to the Gurindji walk-off
by M. Hokari - Aboriginal History 2000 Vol 24
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy: 28 years After it was Established - Interview with Isobell Coe
Indigeous Law Bulletin July/August 2000 Special Issue: Indigenous Perspectives on Law & Rights
Aboriginal community controlled health services
by Kathy Bell, Sophia Couzos, John Daniels, Puggy Hunter, Naomi Mayers and Richard Murray - General Practice in Australia: 2000
Who's Afraid of the Dark? : Australia's Administration in Aboriginal Affairs
by Lyndon Murphy - Thesis for Master of Public Administration. UQ June 2000
Kwementyaye Perrurle Perkins: a personal memoir
by Gordon Briscoe ABORIGINAL HISTORY 2000 VOL 24
Moving Blackwards: Black Power and the Aboriginal Embassy
by Kathy Lothian - Transgressions
Genocide in Australia
by Colin Tatz - Journal of Genocide Research (1999), 1(3), 315-352
Genocide in Australia
by Colin Tatz - AIATSIS Reserach Discussion paper No. 8 - 1999
Australia Day at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
by Felicia Fletcher and John leonard - Meanjin 1 / 1999
Reconciliation: What Does It Mean?
by Gary Johns and Ron Brunton - IPA Backgrounder November 1999
Obituary for Mick Miller 1998
by Gordon briscoe
The 1967 Referendum and All That: Narrative and Myth, Aborigines and Australia
by Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus - Australian Historical Studies 111, 1998
Master Narratives and the dispossession of the Wiradjuri
by Gaynor Macdonald - Aboriginal History 1998 Vol 22
Fred Maynard and the AAPA: One God, One Aim, One Destiny
by John Maynard - Aboriginal History 1997 Vol 23
Problematising Aboriginal nationalism
by Julie Martinez - Aboriginal History 1997 Vol 21
Camp of Mercy: An Historical & Biographical Record of the Warangesda Aboriginal Mission/Station Darlington Point NSW
by Beverley (Gulumbali) and Don Elphick 1997
Pauline Hanson Maiden Speech to Parliament Tuesday, 10th September 1996.
by Pauline Hanson
A Letter From Jack Horner
- Jack Horner - ABORIGINAL hISTORY 1996 20
"White Australia Has a Black Past:" promoting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights on television and video
by Rosaleen Smyth, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 15, No. I, 1995
Obituary: Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal
by John CoIlins - Aboriginal History 1994 18:1
NATION AND MISCEGENATION: Discursive Continuity in the Post-Mabo Era
by Patrick Wolfe 1994
Forgotten Rebels: Black Australians Who Fought Back
by David Lowe January 1994
Black and Red: The Pilbara Pastoral Workers Strike 1946
by Michael Hess - Aboriginal History 1994 18:1
The Aboriginal Embassy: An account of the protest of 72
by Scott Robinson - Aboriginal History 1994 18:1
Statement of Philosophy and History of National Aboriginal and Islander Health Organisation (NAIHO)
by The NAIHO Collective
Problematising Aboriginal Nationalism
by Julia Martinez - Aboriginal History 1997 Vol 21
Colleen Shirley Smith, MBE, AM, 1928-98
by Gordon Briscoe ABORIGINAL HISTORY 1997 VOL 21
Breaking the Silence that Silences
by Damian Lucas Current Issues in Criminal Justice Vol 7 n0 1 July 1995
Australian Diplomacy In A Policy Vacuum: Government And Aboriginal Affairs, 1961-62
by Sue Taffe - Aboriginal History 1995 19.2
Studying Man and Man's Nature: The History of institutionalisation of Aboriginal Anthropology
by Dr. Nicolas Peterson, Wentworth Lecture 1990
It's My Party and I'll Cry If I want To
by David Langsam New Statesman 15th January 1988
The Aboriginal Embassy: Its Purpose and Aims
by John Newfong - Identity July 1972
The Songman of Arnhem Land Meets the 'Big Two' Poets
by Kim Lockwood Melbourne Herald 11th April 1972
Australian Aborigines Set Up 'Embassy,' Score Diplomatic Coup
article By Robert Trumbull New York Times Mar 8, 1972
The Price on Our Guilt
Editorial, The Australian 26th January 1972
Aborigines of Australia Are Suddenly Militants
article By Robert Trumbull New York Times Jan 24, 1972
Yolngu Statement in the Gupapunyngu Language, presented in Canberra to William McMahon, Prime Minister, 6 May 1971
Easter 1970 and the Origins of the National Tribal Council: A personal View
by A. Barrie Pittock 1970
FCAATSI President's Annual Report - Easter Conference 1968
by Joe McGuinness, President FCAATSI
The Student Bus - interviews with the 1965 Freedom Riders
Outlook magazine 1965
The Aborigines and the Rocket Range
Donald Thompson, 1947
Instructions to Governor Arthur Phillip 25th day of April 1787.
Instructions to Captain Cook
by By the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain 30th of July 1768
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