SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Official Printed Sources


BRITAIN

House of Commons, Sessional Papers

1831, 19, No. 259: Van Diemen’s Land. Return to an Address … for Copies of all Correspondence between Lieutenant-Governor Arthur and His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the Subject of the Military Operations lately carried on against the Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemens land

1831, 19, No. 261: New South Wales. Return to an Address … dated 19 July 1831 for Copies of Instructions given by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, for Promoting the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Holland or Van Diemens Land

1834, 44, No. 617: Aboriginal Tribes (North America, New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land and British Guinea)

1836, 7, No. 538: Report from the Select Committee on Aborigines (British Settlements)

1837, 7, No. 425: Report from the Select Committee on Aborigines (British Settlements)

1839, 34, No. 526: Australian Aborigines … Copies or Extracts of Despatches Relative to the Massacre of Aborigines of Australia …

1843, 33, No. 141: Port Essington: Copies or Extracts of Any Correspondence Relative to the Establishment of a Settlement …

1843, 32, No. 505: Papers Relative to the Affairs of South Australia, (especially pp. 267–340)

1844, 34, No. 627: Aborigines (Australian Colonies) … Return to an address … for Copies or Extracts from the Despatches of the Governors of the Australian Colonies, with the Reports of the Protectors of Aborigines … to illustrate the Condition of the Aboriginal Population of said Colonies …

1897, 61, No. 8350: Western Australia: Correspondence Relating to the Abolition of the Aborigines Protection Board


NEW SOUTH WALES

Legislative Council, Votes and Proceedings

1838: Report from the Committee on the Aborigines Question

1839, 2: Report from the Committee on Police and Gaols

1841: Report from the Committee on Immigration with … Replies to a Circular Letter on the Aborigines

1843: New South Wales (Aborigines). Return to an address by Dr Thomson … comprising details of Government Expenditure on Aborigines, 1837–43, and a large collection of correspondence relating to the protectorate and the missions

1844, 1: New South Wales (Aborigines). Return to an address by Sir Thomas Mitchell … for numbers of whites and Aborigines killed in conflicts since the settlement of the Port Phillip District

1845: Report from the Select Committee on the Condition of the Aborigines

1850, 1: The Native Police, Report of the Commandant to the Colonial Secretary

1852, 1: Letter from Mr F. Walker, Commandant, Native Police

1853, 1: Return of Murders by Aborigines in the Northern Districts

1855, 1: Report of Board of Enquiry Held at Moreton Bay regarding Commandant F. Walker Legislative Assembly: Votes and Proceedings

1856–57, 1: Report from the Select Committee on the Native Police Force

1858, 2: Report from the Select Committee on Murders by the Aborigines on the Dawson River


SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Parliamentary Papers

1857–58, 2, No. 156: Explorations of Mr S. Hack

1857–58, 2, No. 193: Northern Exploration

1858, 1, No. 25: Northern Exploration: Reports etc of Explorations … by Babbage, Warburty, Geharty and Parry

1878, 4, No. 209: Journal of Mr Barlay’s Exploration

1884, 3: Quarterly Report on the Northern Territory

1885, 4, No. 170: Report on the Pursuit of the Daly River Murderers

1888, 3, No. 53: Government Residents Report on the Northern Territory for 1887

1890, 2, No. 28: Government Residents Report on the Northern Territory for 1889

1892, 3, No. 129: Report on the Mai-Nini Murder Trial

1892, 3, No. 181: Government Residents Report on the Northern Territory for 1891

1899, 2, No. 77a: Report from the Select Committee on the Aborigines Bill

1899, 2, No. 77: Minutes of Evidence on the Aborigines Bill

1900, 3, No. 60: Justice in the Northern Territory; Letter from Mr Justice Dashwood

1901, 2, No. 45: Government Resident’s Report on the Northern Territory for 1900

1913, 2, No. 26: Report from the Royal Commission on the Aborigines


TASMANIA

Legislative Council Journals and Papers

1863, No. 48: Half-Caste Islanders in Bass’s Straits, Report by the Venerable Archdeacon Reibey

1881, No. 75: First Discovery of Port Davey and Macquarie Harbour by Captain James Kelly in … 1815–16 and 1824


VICTORIA

Legislative Council: Votes and Proceedings

1858–59, No. D8: Report on the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Aborigines

Parliamentary Papers

1877–78, 3, No. 76: Report of the Royal Commission on the Aborigines

1882–83, 2, No. 5: Report of the Board Appointed to Inquire into and Report Upon … the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station

1873–84: Ninth to Twentieth Reports of Board for the Protection of Aborigines in the Colony of Victoria, presented to both Houses of Parliament


QUEENSLAND

Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly

1860: Report of Select Committee on the Police

1861: Report of Select Committee on Native Police Force

1863: Papers Regarding the Dismissal of J. Donald Harris of the Native Police

1867, 1: Copies of Correspondence … concerning the inquiry into the case of C. J. Blakeney, late Lieutenant of Native Police

1867, 1: Charges Against the Native Police under the Command of Mr Sub-Lieutenant Hill

1867, 2: Alleged Massacre of Blacks at Morinish Diggings

1872: Report of Acting Commandant of Police for 1871

1874, 2: Enquiry into the Claims of Patrick Corbett

1875, 1: Report of Commandant of Police for 1874

1876, 3: Report of the North-Western Exploring Expedition

1876, 3: Report of Expedition in Search of Gold … in the Palmer District by Mulligan and Party

1878, 2: Report of the Aborigines Commissioners

1881, 1: Report of Explorations in Cape York Peninsula by R. L. Jack

1881, 2: Further Reports on the Progress of the Gold Prospecting Expedition in Cape York Peninsula

1883–84: Report of Police Magistrate, Thursday Island on Pearl Shell and Bêche de Mer Fisheries in Torres Strait

1885, 2: Reports of Mr Douglas’s Cruise Among the Islands of Torres Strait

1886, 2: Visit of Inspection to Various Islands in the G.S.S. Albatross

1888, 3: Annual Reports of the Gold Fields Commissioners

1889, 3: Annual Reports of the Gold Fields Commissioners

1890, 3: Report on the Pearl and Pearl Shell Fisheries of North Queensland by W. Saville-Kent

1890, 3: Annual Report of the Government Resident at Thursday Island

1894, 2: Annual Report of Government Resident at Thursday Island

1896, 4: Report on the Aborigines of North Queensland by Mr A. Meston

1897, 2: Report on the North Queensland Aborigines and the Native Police by W. Parry Okeden

1900–1904: Annual Reports of Northern Protectorate of Aborigines

1902, 1: Report of the Southern Protector of Aboriginals

1903, 2: W. E. Roth: North Queensland Ethnography Bulletin No. 5


WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council

1871, No. 2: Information Respecting the Habits and Customs of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of Western Australia

1872, No. 5: Despatches between the Governor and the Secretary of State for the Colonies

1875–76, No. 12: Correspondence Relative to the State of Affairs on the North-West Coast

1880, No. A16: Report of the Government Resident, Roebourne on the Pearl Shell Industries of the North-West Coast

1882, No. 33: Reports from the Resident Magistrate … in the Murchison and Gascoyne Districts

1884, No. 32: Report of a Commission to Inquire into the treatment of Aboriginal Native Prisoners of the Crown

1885, No. A15: Report of the Select Committee … Appointed to Consider and Report Upon … the Treatment and Condition of the Aboriginal Natives of the Colony

Parliamentary Papers of Western Australia

1901, 2, No. 26: Report on Stations Visited by the Travelling Inspector of Aborigines

1902–03, 2, No. 32: Report of the Aborigines Department

1903–04, 2, No. 32: Report of the Aborigines Department

1905, No. 5: Report of the Royal Commission on the Condition of the Natives


DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIONS

Historical Records of Australia, Series One, 1–25 and Series Three, 1–6

Historical Records of New South Wales, 1–7


Official Manuscript Sources


ARCHIVES OFFICE OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence: In Letters (special bundles)

Aborigines, 4/7153

Aborigines 1833–35, 4/2219.1

Aborigines 1836, 4/2302.1

Aborigines 1837–39, 4/2433.1

Aborigines 1849, 4/1141

Aborigines 1849, 4/2831.1

Aborigines 1852, 4/713.2

Aborigines and the Native Police 1835–44, 4/1135.1

Aboriginal Outrages, 2/8020.4

Port Phillip Papers, 1839, 4/2471

Port Phillip Papers, 1840, Part 1, 4/2510

Port Phillip Papers, 1840, Part 2, 4/2511

Port Phillip Papers, 1841, Part 1, 4/2547

Port Phillip Papers, 1842, Part 1, 4/2588 B

Port Phillip Papers, 1842, Part 2, 4/2589 B

Port Phillip Papers, 1846, 4/2745-2

Letters Received from and about Wide Bay, 1850–57, 4/7173

Raffles Bay, 4/2060.2

Reports on the Border Police, 1843–46, 4/7203

Letters from Moreton Bay, 1843, 4/2618.1

Bathurst 1815–23, 4/1798

Bathurst 1824, 4/1800

Bathurst 1826, 4/1801

Bathurst 1824–26, 4/1799

Supreme Court Records

Papers Relating to the Aborigines, 1796–1839, 1161


MITCHELL LIBRARY

Aborigines MSS A/611

Letters from Government Officials, MSS A/664

Queensland Native Police: Answers to Questionnaire, 1856, MSS A467

Letterbook, Commissioner of Crown Land, Darling Downs 1843–48, MSS A1764–2

Somerset Letterbook No. 1, MSS B1414


TASMANIAN STATE ARCHIVES

Papers Relating to the Aborigines, 7578

Reports on the Murders and Other Outrages Committed by the Aborigines, CSO/1/316

Records Relating to the Aboriginals, CSO/1/317

Reports of Mr G. A. Robinson Whilst in Pursuit of the Natives, CSO/1/318

Papers of the Aborigines Committee, CSO/1/319

Reports of the Roving Parties, CSO/1/320

Suggestions Relative to the Capture of the Natives, CSO/1/323

Papers Relating to the Black Line, CSO/1/324


BATTYE LIBRARY, PERTH

Swan River Papers, 9, 10

Colonial Secretary: In Letters, Volumes concerned with the Aborigines

53, April, May 1837

54, June, July 1837

56, October 1837

89, 1840

95, 1841

108, 1842

173, 1848


STATE LIBRARY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Governors Despatches GRG/2/6/1

Letterbook of the Government Resident, Port Lincoln 3/379

Report of Attack on Barrow Creek Telegraph Station GRG/24/6/1874 Nos. 332, 347

Colonial Secretary: In Letters, 1837–41, GRG/24/1; 1842–45, GRG/24/6

Colonial Secretary’s Letterbooks, GRG/24/4/3; GRG/24/4

Protector of Aborigines Letterbook 1840–57, GRG/52/7


VICTORIAN PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE

Records of the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate, especially the boxes — Westernport, North-Western District, Mainly In-Letters, Mt Rouse


QUEENSLAND STATE ARCHIVES

New South Wales Colonial Secretary, Letters Received Relating to Moreton Bay and Queensland, 1822–1860

Microfilm copies of material from State Archives of NSW, Reels A2/1 — A2/48 including the special bundles and A2/48 which contains Commissioner of Crown Lands re Aborigines in the District, 1854 Government Resident, Moreton Bay re complaints about the Native Police 1857

Correspondence concerning the police firing on the Aborigines

Native Police: Moreton Bay 1857, Reels A2/47

Native Police Papers QSA/NMP 48/100, 48/111, 48/120

Government Resident, Moreton Bay, QSA/RES/2 and 3 48/101, 48/102

Letterbook of Commissioner for Crown Lands, Wide Bay and Burnett, 24/9/53-30 /12/54, QSA/CCL/35/889 and 1/1/55-13/12/57, QSA/CCL/30/11

Letterbook of W. H. Wiseman, 5/2/55-30/5/60, QSA/CCL/7/61

Colonial Secretary: In Letters, 1860–1890, the QSA/Col/A files and the Special Bundles Relating to the Aborigines, QSA/Col/139-QSA/Col/144


JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, TOWNSVILLE

Microfilm collection of the Joint Copying Project of Colonial Office Files re New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia. Especially useful were the files: New South Wales, Original Correspondence, 1838–1849 and Queensland, Original Correspondence 1861–1900

Other Manuscript Sources


MITCHELL LIBRARY

Papers of Sir George Arthur, especially Vol. 19, Letters received 1827–28, MSS A/2179, Vol. 20, 1829–30, MSS A2180 and Vol. 28

Aborigines, 1825–37, MSS A2188, Tasmanian Aborigines, MSS A612

Papers of G. A. Robinson, especially Vol. 14

Port Phillip Protectorate, 1839–40, MSS A7035

Port Phillip Protectorate: Correspondence 54–57a and other papers, 1839–49, MSS A7075-7078-2

Port Phillip Protectorate, Official Reports, 59–61, 1841–49, MSS A7078-MSS A7082

J. D. Lang, Papers, 20, MSS 2240

W. Gardner, Productions and Resources of the Northern Districts of NSW, 2 vols, 1842–54, MSS A176/1, A176/2

William Thomas Papers, especially his journal for 1844–47, uncatalogued MSS 214/2 and 3

E. J. Eyre, Autobiographical of Residence and Exploration in Australia, 1832–39, MSS A1806

Diary of John Gilbert, 18/9/44-22/6/45, MSS A2587

Jesse Gregson Memoirs, MSS 1382

A. Le Souef, Personal Recollections of Early Victoria, MSS A2762 Reminiscences of Mr James Nesbit, MSS A1533

A. C. Grant, Early Station Life in Queensland, MSS A858

Telfer, Reminiscences, MSS A2376

J. Backhouse, G. Walker, Report of a Visit to the Penal Settlement, Moreton Bay, MSS B706

H. W. Best Diary, 20/9/62-15/4/63 MSS B515/1

Arthur Bloxham Diary, May-July 1863, MSS B515/1

Andrew Murray, Journal of an Expedition 1859–1860, MSS 736

R. B. Mitchell, Reminiscences 1855–66, MSS B575

J. Raven, Reminiscences of a Western Queensland Pioneer, MSS A2692

J. F. Stevens, Histories of Pioneers, MSS 1120


TASMANIAN STATE ARCHIVES

Van Diemens Land Company Papers, Letters and Despatches, 1828–1846, VDC 5/1-7


BATTYE LIBRARY, PERTH

Constance Norris, Memories of Champion Bay or Old Geraldton, Q994.12/ GER

L. F. Clarke, West Australian Natives: My Experiences With them, PR 2766

Mr William Coffin, Oral History Tape, PR 9893

Reminiscences of Mr F. H. Townsend, PR 3497

Report of the Rev. John Smithers re the Swan River Aborigines, 1840, PR 1785a

Extracts from the Diary of Lieut. G. F. Dashwood in Perth, September 1832, PR 956/FC

Diary of Dr S. W. Viveash, QB/VIV

F. F. B. Wittenoom, Some Notes on his Life QB/WIT

Journals of Trevarthon C. Scholl, 1865–66 QB/SHO

L. C. Burgess: Pioneers of Nor’-West Australia, PR 40


STATE LIBRARY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Letters Written by John Mudge … whilst a trooper at Pt. Lincoln and Mt. Wedge, 1857–60, SAA 1518

J. B. Bull Reminiscences 1835–94, SAA 950

Extracts from the Diary of Mary Thomas, SAA 1058M

Simpson Newland, The Ramingaries (Encounter Bay) Tribe of Aborigines, A571/A4

Resolution of the Bush Club, 9/5/1839, A546/B8


LA TROBE LIBRARY, MELBOURNE

W. Thomas, Brief Remarks on the Aborigines of Victoria, 1839, 7838Lt

Journal of Patrick Coady Buckley, 1844–1853, 6109, Box 214/7

Diary of Neil Black, typescript, September 1839-May 1840, Box 99/1

Foster Fyans Reminiscences, 1810–1842, 6940

W. H. Hovell, Remarks on a Voyage to Western Port, 7/11/26-25/3/27 CY, 8, 1/32 c

The Journal of Francis Tuckfield, 655

The Papers of James Dredge — Notebook, 421959; Letterbook, 421961 H. Meyrick, Letters to his family in England, 1840–47, 7959


OXLEY LIBRARY, BRISBANE

Archer Family Papers, including Durundur Diary, 1843–44, Some Letters Mainly from Australia, 1833–55

Diary of Captain G. Griffin at Whiteside, 1/1/47-16/5/49, OM72-42

Letter of T. W. Wells to H. C. A. Harrison, 24/10/61 OM66/2/f2

Reminiscences of Mrs Adelaide Morrison OM69/8/f1

Robert Hamilton, Diary at Mt Auburn Station, 18/11/61-3/9/62, OM68/28/Q2

Harry Anning, Thirty Years Ago, OM172/123

Archibald Meston Papers, OM64/17

Newspapers


NEW SOUTH WALES

Atlas, 1844–1845

Australian, 1824, 1840–41, 1848

Colonist, 1837–1839

Empire, 1851–52, 1855–58

Hunter River Gazette, 1841–42

Maitland Mercury, 1843–1850

Sydney Gazette, 1803–1830

Sydney Morning Herald, 1834–1850 (Sydney Herald before July 1842)


TASMANIA

Colonial Times, 1825–1831

Hobart Town Courier, 1827–1831

Hobart Town Gazette, 1819–1825

Launceston Advertiser, 1829–1831

The Tasmanian, 1827–1828


WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Geraldton Express, 1886–1890

Inquirer, 1840–1851

Northern Public Opinion, 1893–1898

Pilbara Goldfields News, 1897–1898

Perth Gazette, 1833–1840


SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Adelaide Examiner, 1842–1843

Adelaide Observer, 1844–1849

Port Augusta Dispatch, 1877–1880

South Australian Register, 1839–1844

Southern Australian, 1838–1840


VICTORIA

Geelong Advertiser, 1840–1844

Portland Gazette, 1845–1847

Portland Guardian, 1842–1843

Portland Mercury, 1842–1844

Port Phillip Gazette, 1838–1846

Port Phillip Herald, 1840

Port Phillip Patriot, 1841–1842


QUEENSLAND

Cairns Post, 1885–1888

Colonist, (Maryborough) 1884–1888

Cooktown Courier, 1874–1879

Cooktown Herald, 1874–1877

Cooktown Independent, 1888–1891

Darling Downs Gazette, 1858–1859

Herberton Advertiser, 1884–1885

Mackay Mercury, 1868–1880

Maryborough Chronicle, 1860–1880

Moreton Bay Courier, 1846–1862

Moreton Bay Free Press, 1852–1859

North Australian, (Brisbane) 1856–1865

Peak Downs Telegram, (Clermont) 1876

Port Denison Times, (Bowen) 1867–1883

Queenslander, 1866–1900

Queensland Guardian, 1861–1863

Queensland Times, (Ipswich) 1864–1866

Rockhampton Bulletin, 1865–1876

Wide Bay and Burnett News, 1881–1884

Wide Bay and Burnett Times, 1859–1860

Wild River Times, (Herberton) 1886–1889


NORTHERN TERRITORY

Northern Territory Times, 1873–1883, 1890–1895


MISSIONARY JOURNALS

Missionary Notes of the Australian Board of Missions, 1895–1905 Kirchliche Mitteilungen, (Church News) 1886–1900

Newspaper Cutting Books on the Aborigines and related topics in Oxley Library, Mitchell Library, State Library of South Australia


A number of the papers listed above were used for periods other than for those specified. But they were in such cases only consulted for a few issues at any one time. Numerous other papers were used for an issue or two but they have not been listed. Reference has been made to a few of these in the endnotes.

Research Theses


Allingham, A. J., ‘Taming the Wilderness’: The First Decade of Pastoral Settlement in the Kennedy District, B.A. Hons, James Cook, 1976

Beckett, J., A Study of a Mixed Blood Aboriginal Minority in the Pastoral West of New South Wales, M.A., A.N.U., 1958

Bell, D., From Moth Hunters to Black Trackers. An Interpretive Analysis of the Black and White Experience, B.A. Hons, Monash, 1975

Bickford, R. A., Traditional Economy of the Aborigines of the Murray Valley, B.A. Hons, Sydney, 1966

Biskup, P., Native Administration and Welfare in Western Australia 1897–1954, M.A., West Australia, 1960

Brayshaw, H., Aboriginal Material Culture in the Herbert-Burdekin District, Ph.D., James Cook, 1977

Bridges, B., Aboriginal and White Relations in New South Wales 1788–1855, M.A., Sydney, 1966

Blundell, V. J., Aboriginal Adaption in North West Australia, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1975

Brown, R. B., A History of the Gilbert River Goldfield, 1869–1874, B.A. Hons, James Cook, 1974

Bury, W. R., The Foundations of the Pt McLeay Aboriginal Mission, B.A. Hons, Adelaide, 1964

Critchett, J. F., A History of the Framlingham and Lake Condah Aboriginal Stations, 1860–1918, M.A., Melbourne, 1980

Christie, M. F., Race Relations between Aborigines and Colonists in Early Victoria, 1835–86, Ph.D., Monash, 1978

Crawford, I. M., William Thomas and the Port Phillip Protectorate, M.A., Melbourne, 1967

Curthoys, A., Race and Ethnicity: A Study of the Response of British Colonists to Aborigines, Chinese and non-British Europeans in N.S.W. 1856–1881, Ph.D., Macquarie, 1973

Denholm, D., Some Aspects of Squatting in New South Wales and Queensland, 1847–1864, Ph.D., A.N.U., 1972

Desailly, B., The Mechanics of Genocide, M.A., Tasmania, 1978

Eckermann, A. K., Half-Caste, Out Caste, Ph.D., Queensland, 1977

Evans, G., Thursday Island, 1878–1914, B.A. Hons, Queensland, 1972

Evans, K., Missionary Effort Towards the Cape York Aborigines, 1886–1910, B.A. Hons, Queensland, 1969

Evans, R., European-Aboriginal Relations in Queensland, 1880–1910, B.A. Hons, Queensland, 1965

Gale, F., A Study in Assimilation: Part Aborigines in South Australia, Ph.D., Adelaide, 1956

Graves, A. A., An Anatomy of Race Relations, B.A. Hons, Adelaide, 1973

Hardley, R. G., Some of the Factors that influenced the Coastal Riverine and Insular Habits of the Aborigines of South-East Queensland and Northern New South Wales, B.A. Hons, Queensland, 1975

Harrison, B. W., The Myall Creek Massacre, B.A. Hons, New England, 1966

Hartwig, M. C., The Coniston Killings, B.A. Hons, Adelaide, 1960

Hartwig, M. C., The Progress of White Settlement in the Alice Springs District and its Effect on the Aboriginal Inhabitants, 1860–1914, Ph.D., Adelaide, 1965

Hoskin, G., Aboriginal Reserves in Queensland, B.A. Hons, Queensland, 1968

Jenkin, G., The Aborigines Friends’ Association and the Ngarrindjeri People, M.A., Adelaide, 1976

Johnston, S. L., The New South Wales Government Policy Towards the Aborigines, 1880–1909, M.A., Sydney, 1970

Krastins, V., The Tiwi: A Culture Contact History of the Australian Aborigines on Bathurst and Melville Islands, 1705–1942, B.A. Hons, A.N.U., 1972

Loos, N. A., Aboriginal-European Relations in North Queensland, 1861–1897, Ph.D., James Cook, 1976

Loos, N. A., Frontier Conflict in the Bowen District, 1861–1874, M.A. Qualifying, James Cook, 1970

Milich, C., Official Attitudes to the South Australian Aborigines in the 1930s, B.A. Hons, Adelaide, 1967

Murray-Prior, J., Women Settlers and Aborigines, B.A. Hons, New England, 1973

O’Kelly, G. J., The Jesuit Mission Stations in the Northern Territory, 1882–1899, B.A. Hons, Monash, 1967

Pearson, M., The MacIntyre Valley: Field Archaeology and Ethno-history, B.A. Hons, New England, 1973

Prentis, M. D., Aborigines and Europeans in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, 1823–1881, M.A., Macquarie, 1972

Rosewarne, S., Aborigines in Colonial Queensland, M.A., Melbourne, 1976

Rule, M., Relations between the Aborigines and Settlers in Selected Areas of the Hunter Valley, B.A. Hons, Newcastle, 1977

Russo, G. H., Bishop Salvado’s Plan to Civilize and Christianize the Aborigines, 1846–1900, M.A., Western Australia, 1972

Ryan, L., The Aborigines in Tasmania, 1800–1974, Ph.D. Macquarie, 1976

Sabine, N., An Ethnohistory of the Clarence Valley, B.A. Hons, New England, 1970

Shelmerdine, S., The Port Phillip Native Police Corps as an Experiment in Aboriginal Policy and Practice, 1837–1853, B.A. Hons, Melbourne 1972

Shepherd, B. W., A History of the Pearling Industry of the North-West Coast of Australia, M.A., Western Australia, 1975

Smith, P., Yarrabah, 1892–1910, B.A. Hons, James Cook, 1981

Taylor, J. C., Race Relations in South East Queensland, B.A. Hons, Queensland, 1967

Taylor, N., The Native Mounted Police of Queensland, 1850–1900, B.A. Hons, James Cook, 1970

Walker, J. A., Aboriginal-European Relations in the Maryborough District, 1842–1903, B.A. Hons, Queensland, 1975

Willmott, J., The Pearling Industry in Western Australia, 1850–1916, B.A. Hons, Western Australia, 1975


Contemporary Books, Articles and Pamphlets


Archer, T., Recollections of a Rambling Life, Yokohama, 1897

Atkinson, J., An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South Wales, London, 1826

Austin, R., Journal of Assistant Surveyor R. Austin, Perth, 1855

Backhouse, J., A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies, London, 1843

Balfour, H., ‘On the Method Employed by the Natives of N.W. Australia in the Manufacture of Glass Spear Heads’, MAN, 1903

Bartlett, T., New Holland, London, 1843

Barton, R. D., Reminiscences of an Australian Pioneer, Sydney, 1917

Bennett, M. M., Christison of Lammermoor, London, 1927

Bennett, S., The History of Australasian Discovery and Colonization, Sydney, 1867

Beveridge, P., The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina, Melbourne, 1889

Beveridge, P., ‘On the Aborigines Inhabiting the … Lower Murray, Lower Murrumbidgee, Lower Lachlan and Lower Darling’, Journal of Royal Society of New South Wales, 17, 1883

Bolderwood, R., Old Melbourne Memories, Melbourne 1884

Bond, G., A Brief Account of the Colony of Port Jackson, Oxford, 1806

Bonwick, J., The Last of the Tasmanians, London, 1870

Braim, T. H., A History of New South Wales, 2 vols, London, 1846

Breton, W. H., Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia and Van Diemens Land, London, 1833

Bride, T. F., Letters from Victorian Pioneers, Melbourne, 1898

Brock, D. G., To the Desert With Sturt, Adelaide, 1975

Bull, J. W., Early Experiences of Life in South Australia, Adelaide, 1884

Bulmer, J., ‘Some Account of the Aborigines of the Lower Murray, Wimmera and Maneroo’, Proceedings Royal Geographical Society of Victoria, 1, 5, March 1888

Bunbury, H. W., Early Days in Western Australia, London, 1930

Byerley, F. J., Narrative of an Overland Expedition, Brisbane, 1867

Byrne, J. C., Twelve Years Wanderings in the British Colonies, 2 vols, London, 1848

Calder, J. E., The Native Tribes of Tasmania, Hobart, 1875

Calvert, A. F., The Aborigines of West Australia, London, 1894

Campbell, J., The Early Settlement of Queensland, Brisbane, 1936

Carnegie, D., Spinifex and Sand, London, 1898

Carrington, G., Colonial Adventures and Experiences, London, 1877

Carron, W., Narrative of an Expedition of the late Assistant Surveyor Mr E. B. Kennedy, Sydney, 1849

Chester, E., Early Days in Albany: Reminiscences of Mr E. Chester, WAHS, 1, 1931

Chewings, E., Back in the Stone Age, Sydney, 1936

Collins, D., Account of the English Colony of New South Wales, 1798–1804, 2 vols, London, 1802

Curr, E., An Account of the Colony of Van Diemens Land, London, 1824

Curr, E., The Australian Race; its origin, languages, customs, 4 vols, Melbourne, 1886–87

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Recent Books, Articles


Abbie, A. A., The Original Australians, Wellington, 1969

Allen, J., ‘The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century British Imperialism’, World Archaeology, 5, 1, June 1973

Anderson, C., ‘Aboriginal Economy and Contact Relations at Bloomfield River, North Queensland’, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Newsletter, 12, September 1979

Anell, B., ‘Hunting and Trapping Methods in Australia and Oceania’, Studia Ethnographica Upsaliensa, 18, 1960

Anderson, R. H., ‘The Effect of Settlement upon the New South Wales Flora’, Proceedings, Linnean Society of New South Wales, 66, 1941

Bach, J., ‘The Political Economy of Pearl Shelling’, Economic History Review, 14, 1, 1961

Baker, S. J., The Australian Language, Melbourne, 1966

Barwick, D., ‘Coranderrk and Cumeroogunga’ in T. Epstein (ed.), Opportunity and Response, London, 1972

Basedow, H., The Australian Aboriginal, Adelaide, 1925

Bates, D., The Passing of the Aborigines, London, 1938

Bauer, F. H., ‘The Kartans of Kangaroo Island, South Australia’, in A. Pilling and R. Waterman: Diprotodon to Detribalization, Michigan, 1970

Bennett, M. M., The Australian Aborigine as a Human Being, London, 1930

Bern, J., ‘Ideology and Domination’, Oceania, 50, 2, December 1979

Berndt, R. M. ‘A Preliminary Report of Fieldwork in the Ooldea Region’, Oceania, 13, 1942–43

Berndt, R. M., ‘Surviving Influence of Mission Contact on the Daly River’, Neue Zeitschrift Fur Missionswissenschaft, 8/2-3, 1952

Berndt, R. M., ‘Wuradjeri Magic and Clever Men’, Oceania, 17, 1946–47 and 18, 1947–48

Berndt, R. M. & C. H., Arnhem Land: Its History and Its People, Melbourne, 1954

Berndt, R. M. & C. H., The First Australians, 2nd edition, Sydney, 1967

Berndt, R. M. & C. H., From Black to White in South Australia, Melbourne, 1951

Berndt, R. M. & C. H., ‘Some Recent Articles on Culture Contact’, Oceania, 16, 1945–46

Berndt, R. M. & C. H., The World of the First Australians, Sydney, 1965

Berndt, R. M. & C. H., ‘An Oenpelli Monologue’, Oceania, 22, 1951–52

Bligh, A. C. V., The Golden Quest, Sydney, 1938

Birdsell, J. B., ‘A Basic Demographic Unit’, Current Anthropology, 14, 4, October 1973

Birdsell, J. B., ‘Some Environmental and Cultural Factors Influencing the Structuring of Australian Aboriginal Populations’, American Naturalist, 67, 1953

Birdsell, J. B., ‘Ecology, Spacing Mechanisms and Adaptive Behaviour in Aboriginal Land Tenure’, in R. G. Crocombe: Land Tenure in the Pacific, Melbourne, 1971

Birdsell, J. B., ‘Local Group Composition Among the Australian Aborigines’, Current Anthropology, 11, 2, April 1970

Blainey, G., Triumph of the Nomads, Melbourne, 1975

Black, J., North Queensland Pioneers, Townsville, n.d.

Blake, B. J., The Kalkatunga Language, Canberra, 1969

Brandl, E. J., Australian Aboriginal Paintings in Western and Central Arnhem Land, Canberra, 1973

Bridges, B., ‘The Colonization of Australia: A Communication’, Teaching History, November 1977

Bridges, B., The Aborigines and the Land Question in New South Wales’, JRAHS, 56, 2, June 1970

Bridges, B., ‘Pemulwy: A Noble Savage’, Newsletter of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 88, 1970

Bridges, B., ‘The Native Police Corps, Port Phillip District and Victoria 1837-53’, JRAHS, 57, 2, June 1971

Chaloupka, G., ‘Pack-bells on the rock face: Aboriginal paintings of European contact in north-western Arnhem Land’, Aboriginal History, 3, 2, 1979

Chadwick, N., A Descriptive Study of the Djingili Language, Canberra, 1975

Chaseling, W., Yulengor: Nomads of Arnhem Land, London, 1957

Corris, P., Aborigines and Europeans in Western Victoria, Canberra, 1963

Coutts, P. J. et al, ‘Impact of European Settlement on Aboriginal Society in Western Victoria’, Records of the Victoria Archaeological Survey, 4, August 1977

Crawford, I. M., The Art of the Wandjina, Melbourne, 1968

Dixon, R. M. W., The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland, Cambridge, 1972

Dixon, R. M. W., A Grammar of Yidin, Cambridge, 1977

Docker, E. C., Simply Human Beings, Brisbane, 1964

Doolan, J. K., ‘Aboriginal Concept of Boundary’, Oceania, 44, 3, March 1979

Douglas, W. H., The Aboriginal Languages of the South-West of Western Australia, Canberra, 1968

Durack, M., The Rock and the Sand, Corgi edition, London, 1911

Eades, D. K., The Dharawal and Dhurga Languages of the New South Wales South Coast, Canberra, 1976

Eliade, M., Australian Religions, Ithaca, 1973

Elkin, A. P., The Australian Aborigines, 4th edition, Sydney, 1964

Elkin, A. P., Aboriginal Men of High Degree, Sydney, 1954

Elkin, A. P., ‘Civilized Aborigines and Native Culture’, Oceania, 6, December 1935

Elkin, A. P., ‘Elements of Australian Aboriginal Philosophy’, Oceania, 60, 2, December 1969

Elkin, A. P., ‘Notes on the Aborigines of the Walgett District’, Mankind, 3, 2, 1943

Elkin, A. P., ‘Reaction and Interaction: A Food Gathering People and European Settlement in Australia’, American Anthropologist, 53, 1951

Elkin, A. P., ‘The Secret Life of the Australian Aborigines’, Oceania, 3, December 1932

Evans, R. et al, Exclusion, Exploitation and Extermination, Sydney, 1975

Gale, F., A Study of Assimilation: Part Aborigines in South Australia, Adelaide, 1964

Geytenbeek, B. & H., Gidabal Grammar and Dictionary, Canberra, 1971

Gould, R. A., ‘Subsistence Behaviour Among the Western Desert Aborigines’, Oceania, 39, 1969

Gould, R. A., Yiwara: Foragers of the Australian Desert, London, 1969

Gould, R. A., ‘Uses and Effects of Fire Among the Western Desert Aborigines’, Mankind, 8, 1971

Green, N., ‘Aboriginal and Settler Conflict in Western Australia, 1826–1852’, The Push from the Bush, 3, May 1979

Gunson, N. (ed.), Australian Reminiscences and Papers of L. E. Threlkeld, Canberra, 1974

Haddon, A. C., Head Hunters: Black, White and Brown, London, 1932

Haglund, L., ‘Dating Aboriginal Relics from the Contact Period’, Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania, 11, 3, October 1976

Hale, H. M. & N. B. Tindale, ‘Aborigines of Princess Charlotte Bay, North Queensland’, Records of South Australian Museum, 5, 1933–36

Hale, H. M. & N. B. Tindale, ‘Observations on Aborigines of the Flinders Ranges’, Records of the South Australian Museum, 3, 1925–28

Hall, H. A., A Partial Vocabulary of the Ngalooma Language, Canberra, 1921

Hallam, S., Fire and Hearth, Canberra, 1975

Hamilton, A., ‘Blacks and Whites: The Relationships of Change’, Arena, 30, 1972

Hamman, J., ‘The Coorong Massacre’, Flinders Journal of Politics and History, 3, 1973

Hancock, W. K., Australia, Jacaranda edition, Brisbane, 1960

Hasluck, A., ‘Yagan the Patriot’, WAHS, 7, 1961

Hasluck, P., Black Australians, Melbourne, 1942

Haynes, B. T., West Australian Aborigines, 1622–1972, Perth, 1973

Hercus, L., The Languages of Victoria, Canberra, 1969

Hercus, L., ‘Tales of Nadu-Dagali (Rib-Bone Billy)’, Aboriginal History, 1, 1, 1977

Hiatt, B., ‘The Food Quest and the Economy of the Tasmanian Aborigines’, Oceania, 38, 2 and 3, 1968

Hiatt, L. R., ‘Local Organization Among the Australian Aborigines’, Oceania, 32, 1962

Hiatt, L. R., ‘The Lost Horde’, Oceania, 37, 1965

Hughes, I., ‘A State of Open Warfare’, Lectures on North Queensland History, second series, Townsville, 1975

Hutchison, D. E. (ed.), Aboriginal Progress: A New Era?, Perth, 1969

Inglis, J., ‘One Hundred Years of Point Macleay, South Australia’, Mankind, 5, 12, November 1962

Jones, R., ‘The Demography of Hunters and Farmers in Tasmania’, in D. J. Mulvaney and J. Golson: Aboriginal Man and Environment in Australia, Canberra, 1971

Jones, R., ‘Tasmanian Aborigines and Dogs’, Mankind, 7, 1970

Kelly, C., ‘Some Aspects of Culture Contact in Eastern Australia’, Oceania, 15, 1944–45

Kolig, E., ‘Bi:H and Gadeja’, Oceania, 43, 1, September 1972

Laver, P. K., ‘Report of a Preliminary Ethno-historical and Archaeological Survey of Fraser Island’, University of Queensland, Occasional Papers in Anthropology, No. 8

McBride, I. (ed.), Records of Time Past, Canberra, 1978

McCarthy, F. D., Rock Art of the Cobar Pedeplain, Canberra, 1976

McConnell, U., ‘Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula’, Oceania, 10, 1, 1939

McConnell, U., ‘The Wik-Munkan Tribe of Cape York Peninsula’, Oceania, 1, 1930–31

McMahon, A., ‘Tasmanian Aboriginal Women as Slaves’, THRA, 23, 2, June 1976

The Mapoon Story According to the Invaders, Sydney, 1975

Meggitt, M. J., ‘The Association between Australian Aborigines and Dingoes’, American Association Advancement of Science, Publication No. 78

Meggitt, M. J., Desert People, Sydney, 1962

Meggitt, M. J., ‘Indigenous Forms of Government Among the Australian Aborigines’ in I. Hogbin and L. R. Hiatt: Readings in Australian and Pacific Anthropology, Melbourne, 1966

Moore, D. R., Islanders and Aborigines at Cape York, Canberra, 1979

Moorwood, M. J., ‘Three Rock Art Sites in Central Queensland’, University of Queensland: Occasional Papers in Anthropology, 6, 1975

Mulvaney, D. J. & J. Golson, Aboriginal Man and Environment in Australia, Canberra, 1971

Mulvaney, D. J., The Pre-history of Australia, revised edition, Ringwood, 1975

Murray-Smith, S., ‘Beyond the Pale: The Islander Communities of Bass Strait in the Nineteenth Century’, THRA, 20, 4, December, 1973

Oates, W. & L., Gugu-Yalanji and Wik-Munkan Language Studies, Canberra, 1964

Petersen, N. (ed.), Tribes and Boundaries in Australia, Canberra, 1976

Piddington, R., ‘A Note on Karadjeri Local Organization’, Oceania, 61, 4, June 1971

Plomley, N. J. B., A World List of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Languages, Hobart, 1976

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., ‘Black Australia’, Australian Museum Magazine, 4, 4, October-December 1930

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., ‘The Rainbow Serpent Myth in South-East Australia’, Oceania, 1, 1930–31

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., ‘The Social Organization of Australian Tribes’, Oceania, 1, 1930

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., ‘Three Tribes of Western Australia’, Journal Royal Anthropological Institute, 43, 1913

Reay, M., ‘Native Thought in Rural New South Wales’, Oceania, 20, 1949

Reay, M., ‘The Background of Alien Impact’ in R. M. & C. H. Berndt (eds): Aboriginal Man in Australia, Sydney, 1965

Reece, L., Dictionary of the Wailbri (Walpiri) Language of Central Australia, Sydney, 1975

Reece, R. H. W., Aborigines and Colonists: Aborigines and Colonial Society in NSW in the 1830’s and 1840’s, Sydney, 1974

Reece, R. H. W., ‘Feasts and Blankets: The History of Some Early Attempts to Establish Relations with the Aborigines of NSW, 1814–1846’, Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania, 2, 3, October 1967

Reynolds, H., ‘Jimmy Governor and Jimmie Blacksmith’, Australian Literary Studies, 9, 1, May 1979

Reynolds, H., ‘The Unrecorded Battlefields of Queensland’, Race Relations in North Queensland, Townsville, 1978

Roughsey, D., Moon and Rainbow, Sydney, 1971

Rowley, C. D., ‘Aborigines and Other Australians’, Oceania, 32, 4, 1962

Rowley, C. D., The Destruction of Aboriginal Society, Melbourne, 1972

Rowley, C. D., The Remote Aborigines, Melbourne, 1972

Rowley, C. D., Outcasts in White Australia, Melbourne, 1972

Ryan, L., ‘The Struggle for Recognition: part Aborigines in Tasmania in the Nineteenth Century’, Aboriginal History, 1, 1, 1977

Sahlens, M., Stone Age Economics, London, 1974

Shaw, B. & J. Sullivan, ‘They same as you and me’: Encounters with the Gadia in the East Kimberley’, Aboriginal History, 3, 2, 1979

Sharp, L., ‘Steel Axes for Stone Age Australians’ in E. H. Spicer (ed.), Human Problems in Technological Change, New York, 1952

Sharp, L., ‘Ritual Life and Economics of the Yir-Yoront of Cape York Peninsula’, Oceania, 5, 1934

Sharp, L., ‘Social Organization of the Yir-Yoront of Cape York Peninsula’, Oceania, 4, 1933–34

Spencer, B., Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia, London, 1914

Spencer, B., Wanderings in Wild Australia, 2 vols, London, 1928

Spencer, B. & F. J. Gillen, Across Australia, London, 1912

Spencer, B. & F. J. Gillen, The Arunta, London, 1922

Spencer, B. & F. J. Gillen, The Native Tribes of Central Australia, Dover edition, New York, 1968

Stanner, W. E. H., ‘Aboriginal Territorial Organization’, Oceania, 36, 1965

Stanner, W. E. H., After the Dreaming, Sydney, 1969

Stanner, W. E. H., ‘Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River’, Oceania, 4, 2, December 1933

Stanner, W. E. H., ‘Continuity and Change Among the Aborigines’, Australian Journal of Science, 21, 1958–59

Stanner, W. E. H., ‘The Daly River Tribes’, Oceania, 3, 4, June 1933

Stanner, W. E. H., ‘Durmugam, a Nangiomeri’, in J. B. Casagrande (ed.), In the Company of Man, New York, 1960

Strehlow, T. G. H., ‘Aranda Phonetics’, Oceania, 12, 1941–42

Strehlow, T. G. H., Journey to Horseshoe Bend, Sydney, 1969

Thomson, D. F., ‘The Dugong Hunters of Cape York’, Journal Royal Anthropological Institute, 64, 1934

Thomson, D. F., ‘In Camp with Stone Age Men’, Queenslander, 22, 29 January 1931

Thomson, D. F., ‘The Hero Cult, Initiation and Totemism on Cape York’, Journal Royal Anthropological Institute, 63, 1933

Thorpe, O., First Catholic Mission to the Australian Aborigines, Sydney, 1949

Threadgill, B., South Australian Land Exploration, 1856–1880, Adelaide, 1922

Tindale, N. B., Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, Canberra, 1974

Tindale, N. B., ‘Ecology of Primitive Aboriginal Man in Australia’, in A. Keast et al: Biogeography and Ecology in Australia, Hague, 1959

Tindale, N. B., ‘Natives of Groote Eyland and of the West Coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria’, Records of South Australian Museum, 2, 1925–28

Tindale, N. B., ‘A Survey of the Half-Caste Problem in South Australia’, RGSSA, 42, 1940–41

Wade-Broun, N., Memoirs of a Queensland Pioneer, Sandgate, 1944

Warner, W. L., A Black Civilization, New York, 1958

Wegner, J., ‘The Aborigines of the Etheridge Shire’ in H. Reynolds (ed.), Race Relations in North Queensland, Townsville, 1979

Willey, K., Boss Drover, Adelaide, 1971

Woolmington, J., Aborigines in Colonial Society, 1788–1850, Melbourne, 1973

Worsley, P., ‘Utilization of Natural Food Resources by an Australian Aboriginal Tribe’, Acta Ethnographica, 10, 1961

Wright, B. J., Rock Art of the Pilbara Region, Canberra, 1968

Oral History


Considerable use has been made of tapes in the James Cook University Oral History collection and especially material collected by Caroline Strachan. During the last few years I have read with great interest two excellent oral history collections which have not been published to this moment. They are Jay and Peter Read’s A View of the Past and Louise Hercus and Peter Sutton’s This is What Happened.