Books and book chapters

• Aberdeen L and Jones J (eds) (2021) Black, white and exempt: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives under exemption, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• Attwood B (2003) Rights for Aborigines, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
• Bin-Sallik MA (1994) 'MaryAnn Bin-Sallik', pp 24–28, in Sykes R (ed) Murawina: Australian women of high achievement, Doubleday, Sydney.
• Bin-Sallik MA (ed) (2000) Aboriginal women by degrees: the stories of the journey towards academic achievement, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
• Blake T (2001) A dumping ground: a history of the Cherbourg settlement, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
• Brennan F (2015) No small change: the road to recognition for Indigenous Australians, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
• Brindle K (1983) ‘I was a bit cynical...’, pp 17–19, in Bandler F and Fox L (eds) The time was ripe: A history of the Aboriginal–Australian Fellowship (1956-69), Alternative Publishing Co-operative, Chippendale.
• Brindle K (1989) ‘A collection of memories: Ken Brindle’, pp 132–138, in Bandler F (ed), Turning the tide: A personal history of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• Broome R (2015) Fighting hard: the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• Burger A (1979) Neville Bonner: a biography, Macmillan, South Melbourne.
• Chesterman J (2005) Civil rights: how Indigenous Australians won formal equality, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
• Cochrane K (1994) Oodgeroo, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
• Cook K and Goodall H (2013) Making change happen: Black and white activists talk to Kevin Cook about Aboriginal, union and liberation politics, ANU epress.
• Coombs HC, Brandl MM and Snowdon WE (1983) A certain heritage: programs for and by Aboriginal families in Australia, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.
• Coombs K (2005) A fortunate accident: a boy from Balranald, Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, Melbourne.
• Dexter B (2015) Pandora’s box: the Council for Aboriginal Affairs 1967–1976, Keeaira Press, Queensland. 
• Gaffney E (2007) Mura solwata kosker: We saltwater women, Verdant House, Maleny, Queensland.
• Gale F and Wundersitz J (1982) Adelaide Aborigines: a case study of urban life 1966–1981, Development Studies Centre: Australian National University Press, Canberra.
• Goldfields Land and Sea Aboriginal Corporation (2007) Ngayaku Kapi: stories from the North-East Goldfields, Goldfields Land and Sea Aboriginal Corporation, Kalgoorlie.
• Haebich A (2008) Spinning the dream: assimilation in Australia 1950–1970, Fremantle Press, Fremantle.
• Halligan J and Wills J (2008) The Centrelink experiment: innovation in service delivery, ANU E Press, Canberra.
• Hannah H (1988) Voices: a folk history of the Manning Valley, Helen Hannah, Newcastle.
• Hegarty R (1999) Is that you, Ruthie?, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
• Heiss A (2012) Am I Black enough for you?, University of Hawai‘i Press, Honolulu.
• Horner J (1974) Vote Ferguson for Aboriginal Freedom; a biography, Australia and New Zealand Book Co., Sydney.
• Isaacs J (2012) Tiwi: art, history, culture, Miegunyah Press, Carlton.
• Jebb MA (2002) Blood, sweat and welfare: a history of white bosses and Aboriginal pastoral workers, University of Western Australia Press, Crawley.
• Kartinyeri D (2000) Kick the tin, Spinifex Press, Victoria.
• Keefe K (2003) Paddy's road: life stories of Patrick Dodson, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• Kerin R (2011) Doctor do-good:​ Charles Duguid and Aboriginal advancement, 1930s–1970s, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne.
• Kidd R (1997) The way we civilise: Aboriginal affairs, the untold story, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane.
• Kidd R (2006) Trustees on trial: Recovering the stolen wages, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• Langford Ginibi R (1988) Don't take your love to town, Penguin, Ringwood.
• Langford Ginibi R (1994) My Bundjalung people, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane.
• Langton M and Horner J (1987) ‘The day of mourning’, in Gammage B and Spearritt P (eds) Australians, Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, Sydney.
• Long JPM (1970) Aboriginal settlements: a survey of institutional communities in eastern Australia, ANU Press, Canberra.
• Lydon J (2012) The flash of recognition: photography and the emergence of Indigenous rights, NewSouth, Sydney.
• Mallett M (2001) My past – their future: stories from Cape Barren Island, Blubber Head Press, Hobart.
• Manning Regional Art Gallery (2005) Oral histories and portraits of members of the Aboriginal community recorded in the Manning Valley and Great Lakes, Taree.
• Maynard J (2021) ‘Exemption: the official and unofficial impact’, in Aberdeen L and Jones J (eds) Black, white and exempt: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives under exemption, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• McGregor R (2005) ‘Nation and assimilation: continuity and discontinuity in Aboriginal affairs in the 1950s’, pp 17–31, in Wells J, Dewar, M and Parry S (eds) Modern frontier: aspects of the 1950s in Australia’s Northern Territory, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin.
• Murray WM (1962) The struggle for dignity: a critical analysis of the Australian Aborigine, the laws which govern him, and their effects, Council for Aboriginal Rights, Melbourne.
• Moriarty J with McHugh E (2000) Saltwater fella, Penguin, Ringwood.
• Nelson G and Nelson R (2014) Dharmalan Dana: An Australian Aboriginal man's 73-year search for the story of his Aboriginal and Indian ancestors, ANU ePress. 
• Oates LF (1988) The Muruwari language, Pacific Linguistics Press: Australian National University.
• Osborne E (2009) Throwing off the cloak: reclaiming self-reliance in Torres Strait, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• Randall B (2003) Songman: the story of an Aboriginal Elder of Uluru, ABC Books, Sydney.
• Ramsland J (2001) Custodians of the soil: a history of Aboriginal-European relationships in the Manning Valley of New South Wales, Greater Taree City Council, Taree.
• Ridgeway L and Ramsland J (2009) The rainbow beach man: the life and times of Les Ridgeway – Worimi Elder, Brolga Publishing, Melbourne.
• Roberts PW and Lockwood D (1962) I, the Aboriginal, Rigby, Adelaide.
• Rowley CD (1971) The remote Aborigines: Aboriginal policy and practice volume III, ANU press, Canberra.
• Robson C (2022) Missionary women, leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936–1986, Palgrave Macmillan, Victoria.
• Rosser B (1978) This is Palm Island, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• Rosser B (1985) Dreamtime nightmares: biographies of Aborigines under the Queensland Aborigines Act, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Queensland.
• Rosser B (1994) Return to Palm Island, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• Ryan L (2012) Tasmanian Aborigines: a history since 1803, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
• Sanders W (1982) ‘Delivering social security to the remote Aborigines: patterns of contact’, pp 96–106, in Loveday P (ed) Service delivery to remote communities, North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University, Darwin.
• Sanders W (1985) ‘The politics of unemployment benefit for Aborigines: some consequences of economic marginalisation’, in Wade-Marshall D and Loveday P (eds) Employment & unemployment: a collection of papers, Australian National University North Australia Research Unit, Darwin.
• Skyring F (2012) ‘Low wages, low rents, and pension cheques: the introduction of equal wages in the Kimberley, 1968–1969’, in Indigenous participation in Australian economies II, ANU ePress.
• Simon E (1978) Through my eyes, Rigby, Adelaide.
• Stanfield R, Peckham R and Nolan J (2014) ‘Aunty Pearl Gibbs: Leading for Aboriginal rights’ in Damousi J, Rubenstein K and Tomsic M (eds) Diversity in leadership: Australian women, past and present, ANU Press, Canberra.
• Stanton V (1993) ‘Vai Frances Stanton’, pp 156–161, in Sykes R (ed) Murawina: Australian Women of High Achievement, Doubleday, Sydney.
• Stanton V (1993) Talking for country: the land and its song; and, The ties that bind Indigenous people around the world, State Library of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
• Taffe S (2018) A white hot flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett, author, educator, activist for Indigenous justice Clayton, Monash.
• Wanganeen E with Narrunga Community College (1987) Point Pearce past and present, Aboriginal Studies and Teacher Education Centre, Underdale, South Australia.
• Ward C (2016) A handful of sand: the Gurindji struggle after the walk-off, Monash University Press. 
• Watson J (2010) Palm Island: through a long lens, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• Watson R (1993) ‘Roslyn Ann Watson’, in Roberta Sykes with Sandy Edwards, Murawina: Australian women of high achievement, Doubleday, Sydney.
• West I (1984) Pride against prejudice: reminiscences of a Tasmanian Aborigine, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra.
• Young E (1981) Tribal communities in rural areas, Development Studies Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.

Journal articles and papers

• Altman J and Hunter B (1997) Indigenous poverty since the Henderson report, CAEPR discussion paper no. 127, Centre of Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University. 
• Altman JC (December 1997) ‘The achievements and limitations of the CDEP scheme – a 20 year perspective’, pp 1–18, Social Security Journal, Department of Social Security.
• Altman JC and Sanders W (1991) ‘From exclusion to dependence: Aborigines and the welfare state in Australia’, pp 1–19, in Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) discussion paper 1, ANU E Press, Canberra.
• Altman J C and W Sanders (1991) ‘Government initiatives for Aboriginal employment: equity, equality and policy realism’, in Aboriginal employment equity by the year 2000, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, ANU Press, Canberra.
• Anthony T (2007) ‘Reconciliation and conciliation: the irreconcilable dilemma of the 1965 “equal” wage case for Aboriginal station workers’, Labour History, 93:15–34.
• Attwood B (2000) ‘The articulation of “Land Rights” in Australia: the case of Wave Hill’, Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 44(1):3–39.
• Blyton G and Ramsland J (2012) ‘Mixed-race unions and Indigenous demography in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, 1788–1850’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 98(1):125–148.
• Byrne D and Nugent M (2004) Mapping attachment: a spatial approach to Aboriginal post-contact heritage, NSW Department of Environment and Conservation, Hurstville.
• Chesterman J (2001) ‘Defending Australia’s reputation: how Indigenous Australians won civil rights, part one’, Australian Historical Studies, 32(116):20–39.
• Coombs HC (February 1993) Discussion paper: Willowra, p 12, North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University and the Nugget Coombs Forum for Indigenous Studies.
• Daly A and Smith D (1997) ‘Indigenous sole parent families: invisible and disadvantaged’, pp 18–19, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research: discussion paper 134, Australian National University, Canberra.
• Daniels D (1995) ‘Social security payments: 1 children, 1912 to 1995’, Background papers (Social Policy Group), Parliamentary Research Service, Department of the Parliamentary Library.
• Deery P (1995) ‘Chifley, the Army and the 1949 Coal Strike’, Labour History, 68:80–97.
• DeMaria W (1986) ‘White welfare: Black entitlement: the social security access controversy 1939–59’, Aboriginal History, 10(1–2):25–39.
• Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW (December 2007) ‘Aboriginal Women’s Heritage: Ballina & Cabbage Tree Island’, Cultural heritage publications.
• Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (2006) Occasional paper no. 12: a compendium of legislative changes in social security 1908–1982, Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Australian Government.
• de Plevitz L (1997) ‘Falling through the safety net: minimum entitlements legislation for Aboriginal workers in the Queensland pastoral industry 1919–1968’, Australian Journal of Law and Society, 13:1–15.
• Edgerley S (June 1996) ‘The use of market research in developing the Department of Social Security’s customer information products’, Social Security Journal, 1:76–82.
• Foster R (2008) ‘“Endless trouble and agitation”: Aboriginal activism in the protectionist era’, Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, 28:15–27.
• Gunstone A (2010) ‘A history of exclusion: Indigenous people and social security’, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 13(2):34–45.
• Heiss A (1993) ‘Graffiti to graphics: Streetwize Aboriginal HIV/AIDS poster project’, Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, 17(5):22–23.
• Horner J (1983) ‘Pearl Gibbs: a biographical tribute’, Aboriginal History, 7(1):10–20.
• Johnson K (2018) ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment policy and welfare to work: the Community Development Programme and the need for new narratives, new alliances and new institutions’, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 53:239–261.
• Jordan A (March 1989) ‘Of good character and deserving of a pension: moral and racial provisions in Australian social security’, SWRC Reports and proceedings, 7, Social Welfare Research Centre, University of New South Wales.
• Kimber J (2011) ‘“That’s not right”: Indigenous politics, Dexter Daniels and 1968’ [unpublished conference paper], National Labour History conference, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Australian National University, Canberra.
• Laing K and Davies L (2021) ‘Intersecting paths of the local and the international: Joyce Clague’s activist journeys’, Women's History Review, 30(4):574–593.
• Malera-Bandjalan K (May–June 1993) ‘Breaking the cycle’, Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, 17(3):22–24.
• Milner L (May 2019) ‘“An unpopular cause”: the Union of Australian Women’s support for Aboriginal rights’, Labour History, 116:167–188.
• Murphy J (2013) ‘Conditional inclusion: Aborigines and welfare rights in Australia, 1900–47’, Australian Historical Studies, 44(2):206–226.
• Regan S (2014) Australia's welfare system: a review of reviews 1941–2013, HC Coombs Policy Forum, Australian National University.
• Robson C (2016) ‘Ending isolation? Leprosy, welfare and Indigenous Australians 1950–1986’, Aboriginal History, 40:65–88.
• Sanders W (1987) ‘The Department of Social Security’s treatment of Aboriginal polygyny and tribal marriage: a saga of administrative debate’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 46(4):402–420.
• Sanders W (1997) ‘How does (and should) DSS treat CDEP participants? (What are these allegations of racial discrimination?)’, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research discussion paper, Australian National University, Canberra, 149:1–11.
• Sanders W (2003) ‘A new model of inclusion? Centrelink’s development of income support service delivery for remote Indigenous communities’, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research working paper no. 23, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, Canberra.
• Sanders W (2004) ‘A new model of inclusion? Centrelink’s development of income support service delivery for remote Indigenous communities’, Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, 111:17–21.
• Schwab RG and Campbell SF (1997) The future shape of ABSTUDY: practical and policy implications of the recent proposed changes discussion paper 140, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, Canberra.
• Senior K, Chenhall R and Daniels D (2017) ‘“No more secrets–Ngukurr News”: looking back at the contribution of a community newspaper in a remote Aboriginal setting’, Practicing anthropology, 39(1):44–48.
• Silkstone P and Peard J (1996) ‘JET pilot projects – strategies to improve participation in JET for disadvantaged groups’, pp 90–107, Social Security Journal.
• Smith B (1990) ‘Aboriginal income maintenance: policy and legislation. Has policy and legislation guaranteed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people equal access to social security benefits and services?’, NADU occasional paper, North Australian Development Unit in Darwin, Department of Social Security, Australian Government.
• Stanton S (1993) ‘The Australian Half-Caste Progressive Association: the fight for freedom and rights in the Northern Territory’, Journal of Northern Territory History, 4:37–46.
• Stylianou M (2009) ‘“A scandal which must be corrected”: reconsidering the success of the Australian tuberculosis campaign’, Health History, 11(2):21–41. 
• Taffe S (1999) ‘Health, the law and racism: the campaign to amend the discriminatory clauses in the Tuberculosis Act’, Labour History, (1):41–58. 
• Taffe S (2001) ‘Witnesses from the conference floor: Oral history and the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders’, Journal of Australian Studies, 25(67):9–21.
• Taffe S (2011) ‘Shirley Andrews: an architect of the National Aboriginal Civil Rights Movement, 1952–1968’, History Australia, 8(2):153–76.
• Thomas DP (2004) ‘The upsurge of interest in Indigenous health in the 1950s and 1960s’, Medical Journal of Australia, 180(10):521–523.
• Walter M (2002) ‘Working their way out of poverty? Sole motherhood, work, welfare and material well-being', Journal of Sociology, 38(4):361–380.
• Watchman A, Ward GK, Crocombe M and Mulvaney K (2010) ‘Dating of rock paintings in the Wadeye-Fitzmaurice region, Northern Territory’, Rock Art Research, 27(2):223-228.

Theses

• Anning B (2000) An unmasking: a critical analysis of the 1998 and 2000 ABSTUDY policies and its affects on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, AIATSIS, Australian Government.
• Kerin R (2004) ‘Doctor Do-Good’?: Charles Duguid and Aboriginal politics, 1930s–1970s, Australian National University.
• Richardson J (2017) ‘They couldn’t break me’: Don McLeod, champion for Aboriginal justice in the Pilbara, Monash University.
• Robson C (2012) Care and control: the Catholic religious and Australia's twentieth-century 'Indigenous' leprosaria 1937–1986, University of New South Wales.
• Sanders W (1986) Access, administration and politics: the Australian social security system and Aborigines, Australian National University.
• Taffe S (2001) The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders: The politics of inter-racial coalition in Australia, 1958–1973, Monash University.
• Vanags MA (2017) Printing knowledge and preserving tradition: printmaking on the Tiwi Islands, Australian National University.

Online resources

• Abbey S (2017), ‘Noonuccal, Oodgeroo (1920–1993)’, Australian dictionary of biography, ADB online.
• AIATSIS (2023) ‘The 1938 day of mourning’, Explore: defining moments, AIATSIS website.
• Allbrook M (2017) ‘Hasluck, Sir Paul Meernaa (1905–1933)’, Australian dictionary of biography, ADB online.
• Anti-discrimination Commission Queensland (2018) Aboriginal people in Queensland: a brief human rights history, Queensland Human Rights Commission, Queensland Government.
• Australian Indigenous Biography Archive (n.d.) ‘Hegarty, Ruth (1929 –)’, Indigenous Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.   
• Australian Indigenous Biography Archive (n.d.) ‘McGinness, Joseph Daniel (Joe) (1914–2003)’, Indigenous Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
• Bancroft B and Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative (2000) Mum Shirl, the sacred trust of memory: a tribute exhibition in celebration of the life of Shirley C. Smith [exhibition catalogue], 22 November to 22 December 2000, Mum Shirl Tribute Working Group, Rozelle.
• Bieundurry T (17 February 2023) ‘Historic Bark Petition artefact returned to traditional owners after 59-year travels around Australia’, ABC News.
• Boadle D (2012) ‘Roberton, Hugh Stevenson (1900–1987)’, Australian dictionary of biography, ADB online.
• Bourke E (23 May 2022) ‘Truth Telling: The Yoo-rrook Justice Commission’ [conference presentation], 2022 Communities in Control Conference, Melbourne.
• Brignell L (2007) ‘Brindle, Kenneth (Ken) (1931–1987)’, Australian dictionary of biography, ADB online.
• Burin M (28 October 2014) ‘Cabbage Tree Island and the vision for a self-sufficient Aboriginal community’ [video], ABC Local.
• Centre for Australian Languages and Linguistics (2023) Ngketya Nwernaka Ilkerta Mparetyeka: Making our Language strong: Pertame master-apprentice project, Batchelor Institute website.
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• Cooee Art (July 2019) Mum Shirl: Black Saint of Paddington [online exhibition catalogue], 4 to 27 July 2019, Cooee Art Gallery, Sydney.
• Gara T (2002) ‘Wanganeen, Robert Mckenzie (1896–1975)’ Australian dictionary of biography, ADB online.
• Goldflam R (5 April 2019) ‘Getting the message: Aboriginal interpreter services in central Australia, 1980–2001’ [conference presentation], Language and the Law III Conference, Alice Springs.
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• Klapdor M (28 February 2023) ‘Centrelink no longer recognises polyamorous or multiple relationships’, FlagPost, Parliamentary Library website.
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• National Gallery of Australia (2023) ‘Giovanni Tipungwuti Australia 1953-1993’, National Gallery of Australia collections online, NGA website.
• National Museum of Australia (8 March 2023) ‘Yirrkala bark petitions’, Defining moments, NMA website.
• Nelson G (2006) ‘James, Shadrach Livingstone (1890–1956)’, Australian dictionary of biography, ADB online.
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• Thomas M (2016) ‘Mathews, Janet Elizabeth (1914–1992)’, Australian dictionary of biography, ADB online.
• Tye J (2020) ‘Shadrach Livingstone James’, Aboriginal honour roll, First People’s – State Relations website, Victorian Government.
• University of Newcastle (21 January 2022) ‘From Ngukkur to Newcastle: Exploring the activism, impacts and legacy of Dexter Daniels’, University News.
• Wharton G (2016) ‘Jimmy, Andruana Ann Jean (1912–1991)’, Australian dictionary of biography, ADB online.
• Wotherspoon G (2010) ‘The Bulletin’, The dictionary of Sydney, State Library of NSW website.

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