Research books and monographs

The Wentworth Lectures: Honouring fifty years of Australian Indigenous Studies

The Wentworth Lectures honour the contribution of Sir William (Bill) Wentworth to the creation of AIATSIS in 1964; now a world-renowned research, collecting and publishing organisation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander cultures, traditions,

Country women and the colour bar: grassroots activism and the Country Women’s Association

Jennifer Jones

Country women and the colour bar is a timely corrective to established ideas about race relations in rural New South Wales. It reveals the untold story of grassroots efforts by Aboriginal and white women working together to make significant gains for

Old Man’s story: The last thoughts of Kakadu Elder Bill Neidjie

Bill Neidjie, Mark Lang

Recognising that he was the last remaining speaker of Gagudju language, Neidjie broke with tradition and committed his knowledge to print. In Old Man’s story he has recorded aspects of his life for a younger generation, to help them look after their

‘What do we want?’: A political history of Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales

Heidi Norman

‘What do we want?’ is the first study of the most far-reaching and innovative Aboriginal land rights laws in the country.

Fighting Hard: The Victorian Aborigines Advancement League

Richard Broome

Fighting hard tells a history of the Aborigines Advancement League, the oldest Aboriginal organisation in Australia. As both a welfare and activist body, the League is the ‘mother’ of all Aboriginal Victorian community organisations, having spawned a

Encounters with Indigeneity

Jeremy Beckett

For four decades Jeremy Beckett has shone a light on previously marginalised fields of life. While the many went in search of ‘traditional culture’, Beckett was fascinated to learn how people who often lacked wider recognition of their Aboriginality

Melbourne Dreaming: A guide to important places of the past and present (Second edition)

Meyer Eidelson

Beneath Melbourne's busy city landscape lie layers of a turbulent history and an ongoing vibrant Aboriginal culture. Melbourne Dreaming allows you to learn the past and appreciate Aboriginal people's historical, cultural, social and economic

Remembering the future: Warlpiri life through the prism of drawing

Melinda Hinkson

What can drawings reveal about their makers? In 1953 anthropologist Mervyn Meggitt invited Warlpiri men at Hooker Creek to draw with crayons and paper. Two men astounded him with their drawings made 'for the pleasure of drawing'. Six decades later

Kangkushot: The life of Nyamal Lawman Peter Coppin (Second edition)

Jolly Read, Peter Coppin

Kangkushot provides valuable insights into the rich and spiritual way Aboriginal people view their lives and land, and their place in it. This is an updated edition of an epic and remarkable story of senior Nyamal lawman, Peter Coppin, who dreamed of