Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Volume 7
Volume 8
Volume 9
Volume 10
Volume 11
Volume 12
Volume 13
Volume 14
Volume 15
Volume 16
Volume 17
Volume 18
Volume 19
Volume 20
Volume 21
Volume 22
Volume 23
Volume 24
Volume 25
Volume 26
Volume 27

Volume 28
Volume 29

ABORIGINAL HISTORY CONTENTS

Volume 1 (1977)

WEH Stanner: 'The history of indifference thus begins'
Lyndall Ryan:
The struggle for recognition: Part-Aborigines in Tasmania in the nineteenth century
Luise Hercus: Tales of Nyadu-dagali (Rib-bone Billy)
Jeremy Beckett: The Torres Strait Islanders and the pearling industry: A case of internal colonialism
Australian Archives: Canberra: A note on records of the Department of External Affairs relating to Aborigines 1901-1916
D Barwick, J Urry & D Bennet: A select bibliography of Aboriginal history and social change: Theses and published research to 1976

Volume 2 (1978)

Jeremy Beckett: George Dutton's country: Portrait of an Aboriginal drover
Diane Bell: For our families: The Kurundi walk-off and the Ngurrantiji venture
Henry Reynolds: 'Before the instant of contact': Some evidence from nineteenth-century Queensland
Francesca Merlan: 'Making people quiet'in the pastoral north: Reminiscences of Elsey Station
Myrna Deveral: Records of the administration of Aborigines in Victoria, c.1860-1968
Niel Gunson: A missionary expedition from Zion Hill (Nundah) to Toorbul, Moreton Bay District, in 1842-3: The journal of the Reverend KWE Schmidt
Bruce Shaw & Sandy McDonald: They did it themselves: Reminiscences of seventy years
Peter Read & Engineer Jack Japaljarri: The price of tobacco: The journey of the Warlmala to Wave Hill, 1928
James Urry: Old questions: New answers? Some thoughts on the origin and antiquity of man in Australia (survey article)
Mervyn Hartwig: Theoretical history by osmosis: The language of common sense and the comparative history of 'race relations'in Australia and New Zealand (review article)

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Volume 3 (1979)

Magdalene McIntosh & Elaine Rothwell: Maddie
John Ferry: Judy Inglis Memorial Essay Prize Essay 1978: The failure of the New South Wales missions to the Aborigines before 1845
WEH Stanner & Diane Barwick: Not by eastern windows only: Anthropological advice to Australian governments in 1938
Tamsin Donaldson: Translating oral literature: Aboriginal song texts
Ronald M Berndt: TGH Strehlow 1908-1978 (obituary)
Marie Reay: AP Elkin 1891-1979: A personal memoir (obituary)
George Chaloupka: Pack bells on the rock face: Aboriginal paintings of European contact in north-western Arnhem Land
Bruce Shaw & Jack Sullivan: 'The same as you and me': Encounters with the gadia in the East Kimberley.
Athol Chase: 'Thomson Time'
Ian Dunlop:
Ethnographic film-making in Australia: The first seventy years (1898-1968)
Marcia Langton & Brownlee Kirkpatrick: A listing of Aboriginal periodicals
Isabel McBryde: Ethnohistory in an Australian context: Independent discipline or convenient data quarry? (survey article)

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Volume 4 (1980)

Luise A Hercus: 'How we danced the Mudlunga': Memories of 1901 and 1902
Isobel M White: The birth and death of a ceremony
David Bennett: Malangi: the man who was forgotten before he was remembered
Richard Broome: Professional Aboriginal boxers in eastern Australia 1930-1979
Robert Hall: Aborigines, the Army and the Second World War in northern Australia
Peter Read: Fathers and sons: A study of five men of 1900
John & Leslie Haviland: 'How much food will there be in Heaven?': Lutherans and Aborigines round Cooktown before 1900
NA Loos: Queensland's kidnapping Act: The Native Labourers Protection Act of 1884
Brownlee Kirkpatrick: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies manuscript and archive collections
Hugh Laracy: Leopold Verguet and the Aborigines of Sydney, 1845
Lois Tillbrook: The South West Aboriginal Studies Project
John Mulvaney: Aboriginal Australians and the Bicentennial History Project

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Volume 5 (1981)

Special Issue: Aboriginal - Asian Contact
Dedication: WEH Stanner 1905 - 1981
James Urry: Introduction
Athol Chase: 'All kind of nation': Aborigines and Asians in Cape York Peninsula
Christopher Anderson & Norman Mitchel: Kubara: AKuku-Yalanji view of the Chinese in north Queensland
Luise Hercus: Afghan stories from the northeast of South Australia
Ben Murray & Peter Austin: Afghans and Aborigines: Diyari texts
Carol Cooper & James Urry: Art, Aborigines and Chinese: Anineteenth century drawing by the Kwatkwat artist Tommy McCrae
James Urry & Michael Walsh: The lost 'Macassar language'of northern Australia
Alan Walker & R David Zorc: Austronesian loanwords in Yolngu-Matha of northeast Arnhem Land
CC Macknight: Journal of a voyage around Arnhem Land in 1875
Niel Gunson: Proud shoes: Black family history in Australia (review article)

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Volume 6 (1982)

Eliza Kennedy & Tasmin Donaldson: Coming up out of the nhaalya: Reminiscences of the life of Eliza Kennedy
Bernard J O'Neil: Beyond trinkets and beads: South Australia's Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, 1971 - 1978
WEH Stanner: Aboriginal humour
RG Kimber: Walawurru, the giant eaglehawk: Aboriginal reminiscences of aircraft in central Australia, 1921 - 1931
David Nash: Aboriginal knowledge of the aeroplane 'kookaburra'
RE Barwick:
The anatomy of an aircraft; A warlpiri engraving
Alan Atkinson: The ethics of conquest, 1786
Norman B Tindale: A South Australian looks at some beginnings of archaeological research in Australia
Adam Shoemaker: Aboriginal creative writing: A survey to 1981
Fay Gale: Community involvement and academics response: The University of Adelaide Aboriginal Research Centre
Laurie Parkes & Diane Barwick: Beginning a national Aboriginal biographical register at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
Jennifer Laycock: The Elkin papers: A brief description and guide to the collection
Roslyn Fraser: A guide to selected Commonwealth archives (Canberra and Darwin) relating to Aborignes

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Volume 7 (1983)

Kevin Gilbert:
Pearl Gibbs: Aboriginal patriot
Jack Horner: Pearl Gibbs: A biographical tribute
Heather Goodall: Pearl Gibbs: Some memories
Peter Read: 'A rape of the soul so profound': Some reflections on the dispersal policy in New South Wales
M Quinlan: Bellbrook: My father's country
Andrew Markus: William Cooper and the 1937 petition to the King
Gregory Lyons: Official policy towards Victorian Aborigines, 1957-1974
Alan Gray: Aboriginal fertility at the time of European contact: The Daly River Mission Baptismal Register
Tom Dutton: The origin and spread of Aboriginal pidgin English in Queensland: A preliminary account
Henry Reynolds: Aborigines and European social hierarchy
Sylvia J Hallam: A view from the other side of the western frontier: Or 'I met a man who wasn't there'
Paul Black & Grace Koch:
Koko-Bera island style music
Anna Schnukal: Torres Strait creole: The growth of a new Torres Strait language
Noel Broadbent: Three perspectives on coastal archaeology and a view from 64 degrees north

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Volume 8 (1984)

Obituary: Charles Dunford Rowley
RE Barwick & Diane E Barwick: A memorial for Thomas Bungeleen, 1847-1865
Jan Critchett: A closer look at cultural contact: Some evidence from 'Yambuck', Western District, Victoria
Tamsin Donaldson: What's in a name? An etymological view of land, language and social identification from central western New South Wales
Peter Read: 'Breaking up these camps entirely': The dispersal policy in Wiradjuri country, 1909-1929
Luise Hercus: The Marawara language of Yelta: Interpreting linguistic records of the past
Michael Pearson: Bathurst Plains and beyond: European colonisation and Aboriginal resistance
Denise Gaughwin & Hilary Sullivan: Aboriginal boundaries and movements in Western Port, Victoria
Diane E Barwick: Mapping the past: An atlas of Victorian clans, 1835-1904
Isabel McBryde: Exchange in south-eastern Australia: An ethnohistorical perspective
Stephen Webb: Intensification, population and social change in south-eastern Australia: The skeletal evidence
Elizabeth Williams: Documentation and archaeological investigation of an Aboriginal 'village'site in south-western Victoria
Ben Gunn: The rock art areas of Victoria: An initial comparison
Brad Morse: Perspectives on land rights

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Volume 9 (1985)

Diane Barwick: Introduction
Peter Austin & Norman Tindale: Emu and brolga: A Kamilaroi myth
Luise Hercus: Leaving the Simpson Desert
Roma Kelly & Nicholas Evans: The McKenzie massacre on Bentinck Island
Patrick McConvell: Time perspective in Aboriginal Australian culture: Two approaches to the origin of subsections
Stephen Muecke, Alan Rumsey & Banjo Wirrunmarra: Pigeon the outlaw: History as texts
Margaret C Sharpe: Bundjalung settlements and migration
Tamsin Donaldson: From speaking Ngiyampaa to speaking English
John Harris: Contact languages at the Northern Territory British military settlements, 1824-1849
John B Haviland: The life history of a speech community: Guugu Yimidhirr at Hopevale
John Sandefur: Aspects of the social-political history of Ngukurr (Roper River) and its effects on language change
Anna Shnukal: The spread of Torres Strait Creole to the central islands of Torres Strait

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Volume 10 (1986)

Elspeth Young: Charles Rowley - a fighter for justice and equality
John McCorquodale: The legal classification of race in Australia
William DeMaria: 'White welfare: black entitlement': The social security access controversy, 1939-59
Michel Roe: A model Aboriginal state
Robert J King: Eora and English at Port Jackson: A Spanish view
Brigitte Stehlik: Hermann Klaatsch and the Tiwi, 1906
Jack Butler & Peter Austin: The earthquake and Halley's comet: Two Jiwali texts
Jean Woolmington: The civilisation/Christianisation debate and the Australian Aborigines
Lois Tillbrook: A question of access: Women, marriage and land ownership in south-western Australia
Marie H Fels: A quasi-policing Aboriginal expedition in Port Phillip in 1838
Bain Attwood: Off the mission stations: Aborigines in Gippsland, 1860-1890
Note and documents
RG Kimber: Wallawarru, the giant eaglehawk: A note on the identity of Kunki
RJ Dalton: The nature of the 'Gin': A note on 'Whirlwinds in the plain'
Ray Summer:
Photographs of Aborigines of north-east Australia: A collection of early Queensland Aboriginal photographs, made by Amalie Dietrich for the Muesum Godeffroy
Christine Cane & Niel Gunson: Postcards: A source of Aboriginal biography
Peter Austin: Diyari language postcards and Diyari literacy

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Volume 11 (1987)
Special volume in honour of Diane Barwick


Dorothy Green: Two clear minds
Bob Reece: Inventing Aborigines
Judith Wright: Critics, reviewers and Aboriginal writers
Colin Johnson: Captured discourse, captured lives
Jack Horner: From Sydney to Tingha: Early days in the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship
Bain Attwood: Tarra Bobby: A Brataualung man
Bruce Shaw: The tale of Wallambain and Philchowski
Bowman Johnson & Andrew Markus: Andrew Markus growing up in Queensland: Bowman Johnson talks to Andrew Markus
Peter Read: The two journeys of Diane Westmacott
Fay Gale: Aboriginal youth: A history of inequity in the delivery of Australian justice
John Collette: Herman Klaatsch's views on the significance of the Australian Aborigines (note)
Audrey Bolger: Wangkajunga women: Stories from the desert
Peggy Brock: Writing Aboriginal collective biography: Poonindie, South Australia, 1850-1894
Christina L Birdsall: Family history and social network among Nyungar people
Carol Bradley: A change in status for Aboriginal women? Aboriginal women in the Australian workforce
Elspeth Young: Resettlement and caring for the country: The Anmatyerre experience
Stan Davey & Rod Dixon: The Nookanbah Story: Two reviews

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Volume 12 (1988)

Diane Elizabeth Barwick 1938-1986: A bibliography
Diane Barwick, with HC Coombs: Making a treaty: The north American experience
Myrna Tonkinson: Sisterhood or Aboriginal servitude: Black women and white women on the Australian frontier
John Mulvaney: Aboriginal Australians abroad, 1605-1875
Carol Liston: The Dharawal and Gundangara in colonial Campbelltown, New South Wales, 1788-1830
Jack Brook: The widow and the child
GC Bolton: Tommy Dower and the Perth newspapers
Nancy M Williams: 'She was the first one …': Phyllis Kaberry in the east Kimberley
Niel Gunson: Two hundred years of Christianity (review article)
Peter Austin, Luise Hercus & Philip Jones: Ben Murray (Parlku-Nguyu-Thangkayiwarna)

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Volume 13 (1989)

Henrietta Fourmile: Who owns the past? Aborigines as captives of the archives
Jeremy Long: Leaving the desert: Actors and sufferers in the Aboriginal exodus from the Western Desert
Luise Hercus: Three linguistic studies from far southwestern New South Wales
Robert Foster: Feasts of the full moon: The distribution of rations to Aborigines in South Australia: 1836-1861
Reg Dodd & Jen Gibson: Learning Times. An experience of Arabana life and mission education
David Lawrence: From the other side. Recently collected oral evidence of contacts between the Torres Strait Islanders and the Papuan peoples of the southwestern coast
Ann-Mari Jordens: An administrative nightmare: Aboriginal conscription, 1965-72
Deborah Bird Rose: Remembrance
Bruce Shaw: Response to Colin Johnson's article 'Captured discourse; captured lives'

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Volume 14 (1990)

Heather Goodall: Land in our own country
Richard Baker: Coming in? The Yanuwa as a case study
Clive Moore: Blackgin's Leap
Hilary Rumley & Sandy Toussaint: Policy and practice at Moola Bulla
Tony Austin: Cecil Cook, scientific thought and 'half-castes'
Margaret McGuire: The legend of the goodfella missus
Steve Mullins: 'Heathen polynee'and 'nigger teachers'
Suzanne Saunders:
Leprosy prophylaxis in Australia
Gary Highland: Aborigines, Europeans and the criminal law
Kingsley Palmer: Aborigines and atomic testing in South Australia
Colin Pardoe: Aboriginal influence on archaeological practice

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Volume 15 (1991)

Robert & Myrna Tonkinson: Obituary for Ronald Murray Berndt (1916-1990)
Lynne Hume: Them days: Life on an Aboriginal reserve, 1891-1960
Jo Woolmington: The 'assimilation'years in a country town
Sylvia Hallam: Aboriginal women as providers: the 1830s on the Swan
Philip Clarke: Adelaide as an Aboriginal landscape
Noel Loos: From church to state: The Queensland government take-over of Anglican missions in north Queensland
Jack Bohemia & William McGregor: Death practices in the North West of Australia
Paul Turnbull:
Ramsay's Regime: The Australian museum and the procurement of Aboriginal bodies, c. 1874-1900
Lois Tilbrook: Farington's eye
Malcolm Prentis: The life and death of Johnny Campbell
Isobel White: Note on Jack Brook's 'The widow and the child', Aboriginal History, Vol. 12
Geoffrey Gray: Aborigines, Elkin and the Guided Projectiles project

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Volume 16 (1992)

Donald Thompson: Northern Territory coastal patrol
Robert A Hall: Locating Aboriginal archival war material
Robert A Hall: Waters: World War II fighter pilot
Jeremy Long: Narratjin: Sinking of the Patricia Cam
Peter J Grimshaw: Saunders: Aboriginal warrior and Aboriginal soldier
Max Caroll: Aboriginal soldiers in Malaya and Vietnam
FR Morris: Aborigines'contribution to Australia's war effort
DJ Mulvaney (ed): Aboriginal labour force documents
Australian War Memorial: An appeal for records
Australian Archives: A guide to Aboriginal records

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Volume 17 (1993)

Gorden Briscoe: Professor Fred Cossom Hollows (1929-1993) (obituary)
Damaris Bairstow: With the best will in the world: The demise of the Gampignal on the Australian Agricultural Company's Estate at Port Stephens
Don Baker: John Piper, 'Conqueror of the Interior'
Jack Bohemia, Bigfoot Jagarra, William McGregor & Fossil Pluto:
Gooniyandi stories of early contact with Whites
Sally Hodson: Nyungars and work: Aboriginal experiences in the rural economy of the Great Southern Region of Western Australia
Russell McGregor: The concept of primitivity in the early anthropological writings of AP Elkin
DJ Mulvaney: Australian anthropology: Foundations and funding
Ronda Wie: The Aboriginal Biographical index in the Library of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies: Aresearch aid
Judith Wright McKinney: Letter to the editor
CC Macknight: Subject index to Aboriginal History vols 1-16 (1977-1993)
Noel Loos: Scenes from an academic life: A review of 'One Blood'by John Harris

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Volume 18 (1994)

Obituaries
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Norman Barnett Tindale and Catherine Helen Berndt
Gordon Briscoe: The struggle for grace: An appreciation of Kevin John Gilbert
Livio Dobrez: From the English Department
David Headon: A response to Gordon Briscoe
Michael Dodson: A response to Gordon Briscoe
Eleanor Gilbert: Briscoe's erroneous and mis-named 'Appreciation'of Kevin Gilbert
S Robinson: The Aboriginal Embassy: An account of the protests of 1972
Michael Hess: Black and Red: The Pilbara Pastoral Workers'Strike, 1946
Ysola Best: An uneasy coexistence: An Aboriginal perspective of 'contact history'in Southeast Queensland
Bernard Whimpress: Johnny Mullagh: Western District Hero or the Black Grace?
Peter Gifford: Murder and 'The execution of the law'on the Nullabor
Michael Organ: Australian Aboriginal dreaming stories: A chronological bibliography
Bill Edwards: Mutuka Nyakunytja - Seeing a motocar
Rowena MacDonald: Between two worlds
Reviews

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Volume 19 (1995)

Elspeth Young: Shared experiences: Interactions of aboriginal peoples and the 'outsiders'
Don Baker:
Wanderers in Eden: Thomas Mitchell compared with Lewis and Clark
Colin Scott: Encountering the Whiteman in James Bay Cree: Narrative history and mythology
Michael Craufurd-Lewis: Treaties with aboriginal minorities
Garth Cant: Reclaiming land, reclaiming guardianship: Role of the Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Eric Pawson & Paul James: Contested places: The significance of the montunui-Waitara claim to the Waitangi Tribunal
Elliot McIntire: Native American land rights in southern Arizona
Suzanne Parry: Identifying the process: The removal of 'half-caste'children from Aboriginal mothers
Sue Taffe: Australian race relations: Diplomacy in a policy vacuum,
1961-2
Peter Jull: The uncertain future of international indigenous cooperation (commentary)
Reviews

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Volume 20 (1996)


Richard Broome: Theatres of power: Tent boxing circa 1910-1970
Rob Amery: Kaurna in Tasmania: A case of mistaken identity
Philip A Clarke: Early European interaction with Aboriginal hunters and gatherers on Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Denis Byrne: Deep nation: Australia's acquisition of an indigenous past
Shayne Breen: Human agency, historical inevitability and moral culpability: Rewriting black-white history in the wake of native title
Luise Hercus & Grace Koch: 'A native died sudden at Lake Allallina'
Jane Lydon:
'no moral doubt ...': Aboriginal evidence and the Kangaroo Creek poisoning, 1847-1849
Barry McDonald: Evidence of four New England corroboree songs indicationg Aboriginal responses to European invasion
Jack Horner: A letter from Jack Horner
Livio Dobrez: Review articles: Ethnography - Who needs it?
Reviews

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Volume 21 (1997)

Obituaries
DJ Mulvaney: Frederick David McCarthy
Gordon Briscoe: Mick Miller
Isabel McBryde: Isobel Mary White
Gordon Briscoe: Colleen Shirley Smith
John Maynard Fred Maynard and the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA): One God, One Aim, One Destiny
Christine Choo: The role of the Catholic missionaries at Beagle Bay in the removal of Aboriginal children from their families in the Kimberley region from the 1890s
Irynej Skira: 'I hope you will be my frend': Tasmanian Aborigines in the Furneaux group in the nineteenth century - population and land tenure
Michael Parsons: The tourist Corroboree in South Australia to 1911
Ian McIntosh: The Birrinydji Legacy: Aborigines, Macassans and mining in north-east Arnhem Land
Stefan Petrow: The Last Man: The mutilation of William Lanne in 1869 and its aftermath
Geoffrey Gray: 'In view of the obvious animus'. The discrediting of Ralph Piddington
Julia Martinez: Problematising Aboriginal nationalism
Ruth Lane: Remembering Past Environments: Identity, place and environmental knowledge in the Tumut region of New South Wales
RMW Dixon Christine Palmerston: A reappraisal
James Noble and Richard Kimber: On the ethno-ecology of mallee root-water
Richard Kimber Review article: Diane Bell, the Ngarrindjeri and the Hindmarsh Island Affair: 'Value-free ethnography?'Reviews

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Volume 22 (1998)

Richard Broome: Seeking Mulga Fred
Jim Hagan & Robert Castle: Settlers and the state: The creation of an Aboriginal workforce in Australia
DWA Baker: Exploring with Aborigines: Thomas Mitchell and his Aboriginal guides
Thom Blake: Deported…At the sweet will of the government: The removal of Aborigines to reserves in Queensland 1897-1939
Malcolm D Prentis: Research and friendship: John Mathew and his Aboriginal informants
Peter Read: Sharing the country
Robert Foster: Paper yabber: The messenger and the message
John Maynard: Aboriginal stars of the pigskin
Rosita Henry: Performing protest, articulating difference: Environmentalists, Aborigines and the Kuranda Skyrail dispute
Gaynor McDonald: Master narratives and the dispossession of the Wiradjuri
Patrick McConvell: 'Born is nothing': Roots, family trees and other attachments to land in the Victoria river District and the Kimberleys
Barbara Glowczewsk: The meaning of 'One'in Broome, Western Australia: From Yawuru tribe to Rubibi Corporation
Reviews

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Volume 23 (1999)

Isabel McBryde: A tribute to Isobel Mary White
Maggie Brady: The politics of space and mobility: controlling the Ooldea/Yalata Aborigines, 1952-1982
Barry Blake & Julie Read: Pallangamiddang: A language of the Upper Murray
Pearl Duncan: British justice
DCF Rentz Travels with Sally
Lynette Oates The Summer Institute of Linguistics and Aboriginal-Islander Research
Kingsley Palmer: Favourite foods and the fight for country: Witchetty grubs and the Southern Pitjantjatjara
Margaret Kartomi: Play songs by children and their educational implications
Luise Hercus & Grace Koch: 'Wire Yard': A song from near Lake Eyre
Betty Meehan, Rhys Jones & Anne Vincent Gulu-kula: Dogs in Anbarra society, Arnhem Land
Obituary
Isabel McBryde
Shirley Andrew
Notes and documents
Ann Curthoys: Speech in launching Aboriginal History Volume 21
Ian Howie-Willis: The White-Barwick Award
Niel Gunson: An interview with David Unaipon
Ian Warden: Canberra Times interview with Peter Read
Reviews

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Volume 24

Robert Foster: Rations, co-existence, and the colonisation of Aboriginal labour in the South Australian pastoral industry, 1860-1911
Karl Neuenfeldt & Kathleen Oien: 'Our home, our land…something to sing about': an indigenous music recording as identity narrative
Frank Bongiorno: Aboriginality and historical consciousness: Bernard O'Dowd and the creation of an Australian national imagery
Pamela Smith: Into the Kimberley: the invasion of Sturt Creek basin (Kimberley region, Western Australia) and evidence of Aboriginal resistance
Pamela Smith: Station camps: legislation, labour relations and rations on pastoral leases in the Kimberley region, Western Australia
Minoru Hokari: From Wattie Creek to Wattie Creek: an oral historical approach to the Gurindji walk-off
Murray Johnson: 'Cranial connections': Queensland's 'Talgai skull'debate of 1918 and custodianship of the past
RC Petersen: Instructing the Indians at Botany Bay
John Morris: Memories of the buffalo shooters: Joe Cooper and the Tiwi, 1895-1936
Isabel McBryde: Travellers in storied landscapes: a case study in exchanges and heritage
Geoffrey Gray: '[The Sydney School] seem[s] to view the Aborigines as forever unchanging': southeastern Australia and Australian anthropology
Brian Egloff: 'Sea long stretches between': perspectives of Aboriginal fishing on the south coast of New South Wales in the light of Mason v tritton
Stephanie Anderson: French anthropology in Australia, a prelude: the encounters between Aboriginal Tasmanians and the expedition of Bruny d'Entrecasteaux, 1793
Benjamin Richard Smith: The Ayapathu people of Cape York Peninsula: a case study of tribal resurgence
In memory of Kwementyaye Perrurle Perkins
Gordon Briscoe: Kwementyaye Perrurle Perkins: a personal memoir
Ann Curthoys: charles Perkins: 'no longer around to provoke, irritate and inspire us all'
Niel gunson:
The imprimatur of Charles Perkins on Aboriginal History
Notes and documents
James Weiner: The epistemological foundations of contemporary Aboriginal religion: some remarks on the Ngarrindjeri
Reviews

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Volume 25 (2001)

Special section: 'Genocide'?: Australian Aboriginal history in international perspective
Ann Curthoys & John Docker: Introduction - Genocide: Definitions, questions, settler-colonies
Colin Tatz: Confronting Australian genocide
Tony Barta: Discourses of genocide in Germany and Australia: A linked history
Andrew Marcus: Genocide in Australia
Anna Haebich: 'Between knowing and not knowing': Public knowledge of the Stolen Generations
A Dirk Moses: Coming to terms with genocidal pasts in comparative perspective: Germany and Australia
Rosanne Kennedy: Stolen Generation testimony: Trauma, historiography and the question of 'truth'
Larissa Behrendt:
Genocide: The distance between law and life
Deborah Rose: Aboriginal life and death in Australian settler nationhood
Bain Attwood: The Stolen Generations and genocide: Robert Manne's In denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right

Aboriginality in southeastern Australia
Ian Keen: Introduction
Gaynor Macdonald: Does 'culture'have 'history'? Thinking about continuity and change in central New South Wales
Marilyn Wood: The journey to 'Forked Mountain'
Rod Hagen:
Ethnographic information and anthropological interpretation in a Native Title claim: The Yorta Yorta experience
Stephanie Anderson: French anthropology in Australia, the first fieldwork expedition: francois Peron's anthropological contributions to Baudin's 'Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere'(1800-04)
John Morris: The Tiwi and the British: An ill-fated outpost

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Volume 26 (2002)


Ingereth Macfarlane: Introduction
Peter Read: Commemoration of Carol Kendall
Laurent Dousset: Politics and demography in a contact situation: the establishment of Giles meteorological station in the Rawlinson Ranges, West Australia
Geoffrey Gray: Dislocating the self: anthropological field work in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1934-1936
Peter Read: The stolen generations, the historian and the court room
Melinda Hinkson: Exploring ‘Aboriginal’ sites in Sydney: a shifting politics of place
Jane Lydon: The experimental 1860s: Charles Walter’s images of Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, Victoria
Kevin Blackburn: Mapping Aboriginal nations: the ‘nation’ concept of late nineteenth century anthropologists in Australia
Corinne Manning: The McLean Report: legitimising Victoria’s new assimilation
Barry J Blake & Julie Reid: The Dhudhuroa language of northeastern Victoria: a description based on historical sources

Notes and documents
Sir William Deane: Address on the occasion of the launch of Ann Jackson-Nakano’s book The Kamberri
Ann Jackson-Nakano: Weereewaa History Series Volumes I & II
Grant Austin: Discovering my Aboriginal identity
Jilda Simpson: Report from the White–Barwick scholar
Jeanette Covacevich: First formal Australian record of a tree kangaroo: Aboriginal, not European

Review article
Niel Gunson: Reality, history and hands-on ethnography: the journals of George Augustus Robinson at Port Phillip 1839-1852
Book reviews
Mission Girls: Aboriginal women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1900–1950 by Christine Choo
It’s not the money it’s the land: Aboriginal stockmen and the equal wages case by Bill Bunbury
Papunya Tula. Genesis and Genius, edited by Hannah Fink and Hetti Perkins
Rethinking Indigenous education: culturalism, colonialism and the politics of knowing by Cathryn McConaghy
Phyllis Kaberry and me: anthropology, history and Aboriginal Australia by Sandy Toussaint
A Gumbaynggir Language Dictionary, Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative, Steve Morelli (comp.)
Rednecks, eggheads and blackfellas: a study of racial power and intimacy in Australia by Gillian Cowlishaw
Colonial photography and exhibitions: representations of the ‘native’ and the making of European identities by Anne Maxwell
The cultivation of whiteness: science, health and racial destiny in Australia by Warwick Anderson
Bitin’ back by Vivienne Cleven
We won the victory: Aborigines and outsiders on the north-west coast of the Kimberley by Ian Crawford
Through silent country by Carolyn Wadley Dowley
A terribly wild man: a biography of the Rev Ernest Gribble by Christine Halse

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Volume 27 (2003)

James Warden: Preface
Ingereth Macfarlane: Introduction
Martin Gibbs: Nebinyan's songs: an Aboriginal whaler of Western Australia
Frances Peters-Little: Nobles and savages on the television
Elizabeth Willis: Exhibiting Aboriginal industry: a story behind a 're-discovered'bark drawing from Victoria
Bill Wilson and Justin O'Brien: 'To infuse an universal terror': a reappraisal of the Coniston killings
John Harris: Hiding the bodies: the myth of the humane colonisation of Aboriginal Australia
Chris Owen: 'The police appear to be a useless lot up there': enforcing the law in the East Kimberley
Mark McKenna: A preference for forgetting: some reflections on publishing Looking for Blackfellas'Point: an Australian history of place
John Maynard: Australian history  lifting haze or descending fog?
Anna Cole: Unwitting soldiers: the working life of Matron Hiscocks at the Cootamundra Girls Home, NSW
Shirleene Robinson: 'We do not want one who is too old': Aboriginal child domestic servants in Queensland , 1842-1945
Katherine Ellinghaus: Absorbing the Aboriginal problem: controlling interracial marriage in Australia in the late 19th and early 20th century
Margaret Taylor, David Schmitt and Parimal Roy: Undermining the social foundations: the impact of colonisation on the traditional family structure of the Goulburn tribes
Lorenzo Veracini: Of a 'contested ground'and an 'indelible stain': a difficult reconciliation between Australia and its Aboriginal history during the 1990s and 2000s

Notes and documents
Richard Baker: Elspeth Anne Young, 1940-2002
Niel Gunson: 'Leave it to me': an appreciation of Peter John Grimshaw, 1932-2003
Jim Bowler: 'Tribal loyalties': reconnecting with the land A tribute to Mrs Alice Kelly, 1919-2003

Book reviews
RG Kimber: Invisible invaders, smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880 by Judy Campbell
Nigel Bennett: Aboriginal suicide is different: a portrait of life and selfdestruction by Colin Tatz
K McCaul: Ancestral power: the dreaming, consciousness and Aboriginal Australians by Lynne Hume
David Carment: People of the rivermouth: the Joborr texts of Frank Gurrmanamana by Frank Gurrmanamana, Les Hiatt and Kim McKenzie with Betty Ngurrabangurraba, Betty Meehan and Rhys Jones: Deborah Rose
Rak Badjalarr: Wangga songs for North Peron Island by Bobby Lane, Belyuen Community, Northwest Australia by Allan Marett, Linda Barwick and Lysbeth Ford
Mary Eagle: The town grew up dancing: the life and art of Wenten Rubuntja by Wenten Rubuntja and Jenny Green with contributions from Tim Rowse
Andrée Rosenfeld: A cosmos in stone: interpreting religion and society through rock art by J. David Lewis-Williams
K McCaul: Broken Song: TGH Strehlow and aboriginal possession by Barry Hill
Michael O'Connor: Nhanda villages of the Victoria District, Western Australia by Rupert Gerritsen
Val Attenbrow: Aboriginal Sydney : a guide to important places of the past and present by Melinda Hinkson, with photography by Alana Harris
Alan Atkinson: George Barrington's voyage to Botany Bay : retelling a convict's travel narrative of the 1790s edited by Suzanne Rickard
Terry Crowley: Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages edited by Jane Simpson, David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin and Barry Alpher
Edward Ryan: The Black Lords of summer by Ashley Mallett
Tom Blake: Goodbye Bussamarai: the Mandandanji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842-1852 by Patrick Collins
Doug Marmion: 'Under a bilari tree I born': the story of Alica Bilari Smith by Alice Bilari Smith
Gordon Briscoe: Indigenous cultures in an interconnected world, Claire Smith & Graeme K Ward (eds)

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Volume 28 (2004)

Martin Thomas: RH Mathews and anthropological warfare: on writing the biography of a ‘self-contained man’
Victoria Haskins: ‘A better chance’?: sexual abuse and the apprenticeship of Aboriginal girls under the NSW Aborigines Protection Board
Joanna Sassoon: Becoming anthropological: a cultural biography of EL Mitchell's photographs of Aboriginal people
Liz Reed: Rethinking William Thomas, ‘friend’ of the Aborigines
Colin Tatz: An essay in disappointment: the Aboriginal–Jewish relationship
Kate Auty: Patrick Bernard O’Leary and the Forrest River massacres, Western Australia: examining ‘Wodgil’ and the significance of 8 June 1926
Noelene Cole: Battle Camp to Boralga: a local study of colonial war on Cape York Peninsula, 1873–1894
Amanda Nettelbeck: Writing and remembering frontier conflict: the rule of law in 1880s Central Australia
Peggy Brock: Skirmishes in Aboriginal History
Notes and documents
Isabel McBryde: ‘Making a difference’: tributes to peter Malcolm Clark 1955–2004
Ann McGrath: Minoru Hokari 1971–2004
Tim Rowse, Mark Hannah and Len Smith: Queensland’s exceptional approach to cross-race marriage?: a reply to Katherine Ellinghaus (2003)
Katherine Ellinghaus: A response to Rowse, Hannah and Smith
Book reviews
Craig San-Roque: Trauma trails – recreating song lines: the transgenerational effects of trauma in Indigenous Australia by Judy Atkinson
John Chesterman: Rights for Aborigines by Bain Attwood and Frontier conflict: the Australian experience edited by Bain Attwood and SG Foster
Katherine Ellinghaus: Shadow lines by Stephen Kinnane
Myfany Turpin: Ngarla songs by Alexander Brown and Brian Geytenbeek
Brian Egloff: Looking for Blackfellas’ Point: an Australian history of place by Mark McKenna
Peter Read: Contested country by Patricia Crawford and Ian Crawford
Barry Blake: Aboriginal stars of the turf by John Maynard
Andree Rosenfeld: Ambiguous images: gender and rock art by Kelly A Hayes-Gilpin
Jack Caldwell: Counting, health and identity: a history of Aboriginal health and demography in western Australia and Queensland, 1900–1940 by Gordon Briscoe
Isabelle Merle: Dancing with strangers by Inga Clendinnen
Katie Glaskin : Blood, sweat and welfare: a history of white bosses and Aboriginal pastoral workers by Mary Anne Jebb
Jessica Weir: Crossing boundaries: cultural, legal, historical and practice issues in native title edited by Sandy Toussaint
Kim McCaul: Les jardins du nomade: cosmologie, territoire et personne dans le desert occidental Australien by Silvie Poirier

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Volume 29 (2005)

Volume 29 (2005)

John Maynard:‘In the interests of our people’: the influence of Garveyism on the rise of Australian Aboriginal political activism
Darrell Lewis:‘Invaders of a peaceful country’: Aborigines and explorers on the lower Victoria River, Northern Territory
Rani Kerin:Sydney James Cook/Duguid and the importance of ‘being Aboriginal’
Mitchell Rolls:The changing politics of miscegenation
Geoff Gray:‘You are … my anthropological children’: AP Elkin, Ronald Berndt and Catherine Berndt, 1940–1956
Sarah Holcombe:Indigenous organisations and mining in the Pilbara, Western Australia: lessons from a historical perspective

Notes and documents

The 2004 and 2005 Sally White – Diane Barwick Award recipients
Peter Read:Many exchanges, many ripples – Launch of Many exchanges: archaeology, history, community and the work of Isabel McBryde
Michael Westaway and Peter Hiscock:The extinction of rigour: a comment on ‘The extinction of the Australian Pygmies’, an article by Keith Windschuttle and Tim Gillin

Book reviews

David Carment: Frontier justice: a history of the Gulf Country to 1900 by Tony Roberts
Nancy Williams: Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land, revised edition, by Donald Thomson, compiled and introduced by Nicolas Peterson
Christine Choo: Blackfellas Whitefellas and the hidden injuries of race by Gillian Cowlishaw
Peter J Carroll: Paddy Cahill of Oenpelli by John Mulvaney
Rani Kerin: Seeking racial justice – an insider's memoir of the movement for Aboriginal Advancement, 1938–1978 by Jack Horner and Black and White together FCAATSI: the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders 1958–1973 by Sue Taffe
Ian Keen: Where the ancestors walked: Australia as an Aboriginal landscape by Philip Clarke
Sophia Close: Woven histories dancing lives: Torres Strait Islander identity, culture and history edited by Richard Davis
Robert Paton: The artificial horizon: imagining the Blue Mountains by Martin Thomas
Gary Presland: A bend in the Yarra: a history of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841–1851 by Ian Clark and Toby Heydon
Petter Naessan: Alive and kicking: Areyonga teenage Pitjantjatjara by Annie Langlois
Gordon Briscoe: Muslims in Australia: immigration, race relations and cultural history by Nahid Kabir
Mitchell Rolls: Whitening race: essays in social and cultural criticism edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Tiffany Shellam: The French explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772–1839 by Colin Dyer
Noel Loos: Whispers of this Wik woman by Fiona Doyle


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