Publications

 Launched by Senator Christine Milne, Wednesday 29 August 2007

‘This book meets well the triple promise of the title — the inter-connections of place, people and heritage. John Mulvaney brings to this work a deep knowledge of the history, ethnography and archaeology of Tasmania. He has also been directly involved with Tasmanian cultural heritage issues over many years.

The book is written in a clear, lively style, effectively presenting a comprehensive account of the area's history over the two hundred years since French naval expeditions first charted its coastlines. The important records the French officers and scientists left of encounters with Aboriginal groups are discussed in detail, set in the wider ethnographic context and compared with those of later expeditions.

The topical issues of understanding the importance of Recherche Bay as a cultural landscape and its protection and future management form a major component of the book. Readers will be challenged to consider the connections between people and place, and how these may constitute significant national heritage.'

Order hard copies from: sales@aboriginalhistory.org
Phone/fax: +61 2 6230 7054 or electronic copies from http://epress.anu.edu.au/
See our web page: www.aboriginalhistory.org

60,000 Year History Workshop, AHA Conference, July 2006

In July the AHA held a conference at ANU entitled Genres of History. The attached transcript of one session has been produced to form a basis for ongoing discussion and development of these ideas. You can download a copy of the paper here.

Reconciling the Historical Accounts: Trust Funds Reparations and New South Wales Aborigines

Professor Ann McGrath's report examines a range of issues associated with stolen wages claims in NSW from a historical perspective. You can download a copy of the paper here.

Aboriginal History Journal

Since 1977 the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered cross-disciplinary historical studies based on anthropological, archaeological, demographic, linguistic, legal, geographical and sociological research. These draw on oral histories, ethnohistories, documentary and non-text based evidences. The journal has been described by Assoc. Prof. Bain Attwood, Monash University, as '... the sub-discipline's flagship journal ...' The journal fosters the work of Indigenous historians and new scholars as well as leading established researchers. See the web page at www.aboriginalhistory.org for an index of papers published in the past three decades of the journal.

Aboriginal History Inc Monograph Series

Aboriginal History monographs present studies on particular themes or regions, or a series of articles on single subjects of contemporary interest.

For a full description of titles and contents, visit the Aboroginal History Journal website at http://www.aboriginalhistory.org/Journals.html

Special Issue Volume 30

In 2006 Aboriginal History journal will celebrate thirty years of leading interdisciplinary publishing in the field of Australian Indigenous History. The 30th  edition of the journal is an ideal opportunity to explore and to promote contemporary developments and directions in this dynamic field. We have a cutting edge collection of papers in press for a special themed edition of the journal, with the working title Exchanging Histories. This edition highlights the diverse ways of telling multiple histories that are currently being practiced in Australia and their potential for the decolonisation of history. A provisional table of contents can be found here.

Rain storm over stony plains, northern South Australia

A Water History of the Western Simpson Desert, South Australia
by Ingereth Macfarlane.

Published in 23 Degrees South: Archaeology and Environmental History of Southern Deserts, edited by M.A. Smith and P. Hesse, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2005.  This paper can be found online here. A bibliography for the article can be found here.