Australian Indigenous Studies: Resources

Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention.

The 19 studies brought together in this book present an overview of current issues involving Indigenous placenames across the whole of Australia, drawing on the disciplines of geography, linguistics, history, and anthropology. They include meticulous studies of historical records, and perspectives stemming from contemporary Indigenous communities.

Guide to the Aboriginal Collections held in Cultural Collections UON. Records of local Koori or Goori culture and traditions, Hunter Valley rock art and weapons from the estate of the late Percy Haslam.

Guide created to assist the Awaba project, a collaborative venture by the University of Newcastle's School of Liberal Arts and the Wollotuka School of Aboriginal Studies.

The gold mine has closed and Warrego has become a ghost town so the local primary school will have to close. To keep his school going the principal, Colin Baker, has found that the way to encourage children from a remote Aboriginal community to come to the school is by agreeing to teach them to ride horses. Warning: this program may cause distress to members of the Aboriginal community as it may contain images or voices of deceased persons.

Chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people.

Australia’s audiovisual archive, collecting, preserving and sharing film, documentaries and oral histories

Responsible for caring for the most significant records received, created or kept by government agencies.

Australian newspaper archives 1803 - 2007

An independent body that works collaboratively with Indigenous learners and communities undertaking research to inform policy, programs and practices to support improved outcomes for Indigenous learners.

Provides information and links to a range of education resources related to Indigenous education in Australian states and territories.

Authoritative information and statistics to promote better Indigenous health and wellbeing.

Australia’s national institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research

Provides links to 370 resources for 128 Indigenous Australian languages.

Information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages including: alternative/variant names and spellings, history of the number of speakers, geographical distribution, resources and documentation.

Online access to dictionaries in Aboriginal languages developed to document and preserve Australian languages for future generations.

This page gives access to information about Indigenous languages, resources, curriculum offerings, community sites, government sites and studies.

Print copies of the Koori Mail are held for the current year.

Free online archive of the Koori Mail, Australia’s fortnightly national Indigenous newspaper. Full-text issues of this newspaper may be downloaded in pdf format from 1991 to 9 months ago.

Up to date news stories from the ABC website on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues.

Australian statistics and census data.

Analysed data and publications from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Historical census and statistics data and publications.

A searchable archive of Australian Colonial census publications and reports. It is a sub-archive of the Australian Data Archive (ADA). Please note that the archive contains colonial census reports and not the raw census data.

Australian census records from 1788 to 1901.