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Selected further reading

Amadio, N, Albert Namatjira: The Life and Work of an Australian Painter, Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1986.

Attwood, B, Rights for Aborigines, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2003.

Attwood, B and Markus, A, The 1967 Referendum: Race, Power and the Australian Constitution, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2007.

Attwood, B and Markus, A, Thinking Black: William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2004.

Attwood, B and Markus, A, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1999.

Attwood, B and Markus, A, The 1967 Referendum, or When Aborigines Didn't Get the Vote, Canberra, 1997.

Bandler, F, Turning the Tide: A Personal History of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1989.

Bandler, F and Fox, L (eds), The Time Was Ripe: The Story of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship 1956-1969, Alternative Publishing Co-operative Ltd, Sydney, 1983.

Bennett, S, White Politics and Black Australians, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1999.

Bennett, S, 'The 1967 Referendum', Australian Aboriginal Studies, (2), 1985, pp 26-31.

Broome, R, Aboriginal Victorians: A History since 1800, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2005.

Broome, R, Aboriginal Australians: Black Response to White Dominance 1788-1980, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1982.

Broome, R and Manning, C, A Man of All Tribes: The Life of Alick Jackomos, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2006.

Bunbury, B, It's Not the Money, It's the Land: Aboriginal Stockmen and the Equal Wages Case, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, North Fremantle, 2002.

Burgmann, V, Power and Protest: Movements for Change in Australian Society, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1993.

Chesterman, J, Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2005.

Chesterman J and Galligan, B (eds), Defining Australian Citizenship: Selected Documents, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1999.

Chesterman, J and Galligan, B, Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997.

Clarke, M, Pastor Doug: The Story of Sir Douglas Nicholls, Aboriginal Leader, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1966.

Cochrane, K, Oodgeroo, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1994.

Cole, A, Haskins, V and Paisley, F, Uncommon Common Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2005.

Coltheart, L, (ed) Jessie Street: A Revised Autobiography, The Federation Press, Sydney, 2004.

Coombs, H, Kulinma: Listening to Aboriginal Australians, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1978.

Curthoys, A, Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2002.

D'Abbs, Peter, The Vestey Story, Australian Meat Industry Employees Union (Victorian Branch), Melbourne, 1970.

Darling, E, They Spoke Out Pretty Good: Politics and Gender in the Brisbane Aboriginal Rights Movement 1958-1962, Janoan Media Exchange, St Kilda, 1998.

Davis, J, A Boy's Life, Magabala Books, Broome, 1991.

Duguid, C, Doctor and the Aborigines, Rigby, Adelaide, 1972.

Elkin, A, Citizenship for the Aborigines: A National Aboriginal Policy, Australasian Publishing Company, Sydney, 1944.

Engel, Frank, Turning Land into Hope, Melbourne, 1968.

Fenwick, J, 'Worrying About Our Land': Conceptualising Land Rights 1963-1971, Monash Publications in History, Clayton, 2001.

Gammage, B, and Markus, A (eds), All That Dirt: Aborigines 1938, Australian National University, Canberra, 1982.

Gilbert, K, Because A White Man'll Never Do It, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1972.

Goodall, H, 'Aboriginal history and the politics of information control' in White, R and Russell, P (eds), Memories and Dreams: Reflections on Twentieth Century Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997.

Goodall, H, Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1996.

Grayden, W, Adam and Atoms, Daniels, Perth, 1957.

Haebich, A, Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000, WA, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2000.

Haebich, A, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970, Fremantle Press, North Fremantle, WA, 2008.

Hardy, Frank, The Unlucky Australians, One Day Hill, Melbourne, 1968, this edition London, 1981.

Harris, S, This Our Land, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1972.

Hasluck, P, Shades of Darkness: Aboriginal Affairs 1925-1965, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1988.

Hasluck, P, Black Australians, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1942.

Horner, J, Seeking Racial Justice: An Insider's Memoir of the Movement for Aboriginal Advancement, 1938-1978, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2004.

Horner, J, Bill Ferguson: Fighter for Aboriginal Freedom, 2nd edn, Canberra, 1974.

Horner, J and Langton, M, 'The Day of Mourning' in B Gammage and P Spearritt (eds), Australians 1938, Syme and Weldon, Sydney, 1987, pp 29-35.

Horton, D, (ed), The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1994.

Howard, M, Aboriginal Politics in South Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands WA, 1981.

Howson, Peter, The Howson Diaries: The Life of Politics, Ringwood, 1984.

Kerin, R, An Attitude of Respect: Anna Vroland and Aboriginal Rights 1947-1957, Monash Publications in History, Melbourne, 1999.

Kidd, R, Black Lives, Government, Lies, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2006.

Kidd, R, Trustees on Trial: Recovering the Stolen Wages, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2006.

Kidd, R, The Way We Civilise, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1997.

Kymlicka, W and Norman, W, 'Return of the citizen: a survey of recent work on citizenship theory', Ethics, no. 104, 1994, pp 352-81.

Lake, M, Faith: Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2002.

Lippmann, L, Generations of Resistance: The Aboriginal Struggle for Justice, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1981.

Long, J, Aboriginal Settlements, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1970.

Markus, A, Australian Race Relations, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1994.

Markus, A, 'Talk Longa Mouth' in Curthoys, A and Markus, A (eds), Who Are Our Enemies? Racism and the Working Class in Australia, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1978.

McGinness, J, Son of Alyandabu: My Fight for Aboriginal Rights, Queensland University Press, St Lucia, 1991.

McGrath, A (ed), Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines Under the Crown, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1995.

McGregor, Russell, Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1997.

McLeod, D W, How the West Was Lost, self published, Port Hedland, 1984.

Middleton, H, But Now We Want the Land Back, New Age Publishers Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1977.

Moriarty, J, Saltwater Fella, Viking, Ringwood, Victoria, 2000.

Paisley, F, Loving Protection?: Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights 1919-1939, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2000.

Palmer, I, Buying Back the Land: Organisational Struggle and the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1988.

Palmer, K and McKenna, C, Somewhere Between Black and White: The Story of an Aboriginal Australian, MacMillan, South Melbourne, 1978.

Peacock, E, History, Life and times of Robert Anderson, Gheebelum Ngugi, Mulgumpin, Uniikup Productions, Brisbane, 2001.

Perkins, C, A Bastard Like Me, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1975.

Peterson, N and Sanders, W, (eds), Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.

Porter, R, Paul Hasluck: A Political Biography, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, 1993.

Powell, A, Far Country: A Short History of the Northern Territory, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1982.

Read, J and Coppin, P, Kangkushot: The Life of Nyamal Lawman Peter Coppin, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1999.

Read, P, Charles Perkins: A Biography, Viking, Ringwood, Victoria, 1990.

Read, P, 'Darce Cassidy's freedom ride', Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1988, no. 1.

Reay, M (ed), Aborigines Now, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1964.

Reynolds, H, This Whispering in Our Hearts, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1998.

Reynolds, H, The Law of the Land, Penguin, Ringwood Victoria, 1987.

Rigsby, B and Peterson, N, Donald Thomson: The Man and the Scholar, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Canberra, 2005.

Robinson, Scott, 'The Aboriginal Tent Embassy, 1972', MA thesis, Australian National University, Canberra, 1993.

Rowley, C, A Matter of Justice, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1987.

Rowley, C, Recovery: The Politics of Aboriginal Reform, Penguin, Melbourne, 1986.

Rowley, C, Outcasts in White Australia, Penguin, Sydney, 1972.

Rowley, C, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society: Aboriginal Policy and Practice, vol. 1, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1970 (Penguin edition, 1972).

Rowley, C, The Remote Aborigines: Aboriginal Policy and Practice, vol. 3, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1970, (Penguin edition, 1972).

Rowse, T, Contesting Assimilation, API Network, Perth, 2005.

Rowse, T, Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2002.

Rowse, T, Obliged to be Difficult: Nugget Coombs' Legacy in Indigenous Affairs, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000.

Rowse, T, White Flour, White Power: From Rations to Citizenship, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.

Sekuless, P, Jessie Street, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1978.

Shoemaker, A (ed), Oodgeroo: A Tribute, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1994.

Smith, Shirley, MumShirl: An Autobiography / With the Assistance of Bobbi Sykes, Mammoth, Port Melbourne, 1992

Stannage, T et al, Paul Hasluck in Australian History: Civic Personality and Public Life, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, n.d.

Stanner, W, White Man Got No Dreaming: Essays 1938-1973, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1979.

Stanner, WEH, After the Dreaming: The 1968 Boyer lectures, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, 1968.

Stevens, F, Black Australia, Alternative Publishing Co-operative Limited, Sydney, 1981.

Stevens, F, Politics of Prejudice, Alternative Publishing Company Limited, Sydney, 1980.

Stevens, F (ed), Racism: The Australian Experience, vol. 2, Taplinger Publishing Company Inc, New York, 1972.

Stevens, F, Equal Wages for Aborigines, Aura Press, Sydney, 1968.

Stone, S (ed), Aborigines in White Australia: A Documentary History of the Attitudes Affecting Official Policy and the Australian Aborigine 1697-1973, Heinemann Educational Australia, South Yarra, 1974.

Stuart, D, Yandy, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1959.

Sykes, R, Snake Dancing, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1998.

Taffe, S, Black and White Together: FCAATSI, the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, 1958-1973, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2005.

Taffe, S, 'Witnesses from the conference floor: oral history and the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders', Journal of Australian Studies, no. 67, 2001, pp 10-21.

Taffe, S, 'Health, the law and racism: the campaign to amend the discriminatory clauses in the Tuberculosis Act', Labour History, no. 76, May 1999, pp 41-58.

Taffe, S, 'Australian diplomacy in a policy vacuum: government and Aboriginal affairs, 1961-62', Aboriginal History, vol. 19, part 2, 1995, pp 154-72.

Tatz, C (ed), Black Viewpoints: The Aboriginal Experience, Australia and New Zealand Book Company Pty Ltd, Brookvale, NSW, 1975.

Tucker, M, If Everyone Cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker MBE, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1977.

Turner, A (ed), Black Power in Australia, South Yarra, Victoria, Heinemann Educational Australia, 1975.

Victorian Aborigines Advancement League, Victims or Victors?, Hyland House, Melbourne, 1985.

Walker, K, My People, Jacaranda, Brisbane, 1970.

Walker, K, We are Going, Jacaranda, Brisbane, 1964.

Wells, Edgar, Reward and Punishment in Arnhem Land, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1982.

White, R and Russell, P (eds), Memories and Dreams: Reflections on Twentieth Century Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997.

Williams, N, The Yolngu and their Land, California, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1986.

Yarwood, A and Knowling, M, Race Relations in Australia: A History, Menthuen Australia, North Ryde, 1982.

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