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Further Reading

History

Inga Glendinning (2003) Dancing with Strangers , Text Publishing Melbourne

Henry Reynolds - several publications including Frontier: Reports from the Edge of White Settlement (1987 revised 1996) and This Whispering in Our Hearts (1998), Allen & Unwin

Raymond Evans (1999) Fighting Words: Writing about Race , University of Queensland Press

Rosalind Kidd (1997) The Way We Civilise , University of Queensland Press

Bain Attwood, Winifred Burrage, Alan Burrage and Elsie Stokie (1994) A Life Together, A Life Apart: A History of Relations between Europeans and Aborigines , Melbourne University Press

Bain Attwood (2003) Rights for Aborigines , Allen & Unwin

Fiona Paisley (2000) Loving Protection? Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights 1919-1939 , Melbourne University Press

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Victorian Aboriginal History

Richard Broome (2005) Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 , Allen & Unwin

Jan Critchett (1990) A Distant Field of Murder, Melbourne University Press

Jan Critchett (1998) Untold Stories: Memories and lives of Victorian Kooris , Melbourne University Press

Elizabeth Nelson, Sandra Smith and Patricia Grimshaw eds. (2002) Letters from Aboriginal Women of Victoria, 1867-1926 , History Department, University of Melbourne

Robert Lowe (2002) The Mish: An award-winning story of family, community and tradition on Victoria's Framlingham Aboriginal Mission , University of Queensland Press

Ian Clark and Toby Heydon (2004) A Bend in the Yarra: A History of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841-1851 , Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Studies, Report Series, Aboriginal Studies Press

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Contemporary Issues

Michelle Grattan ed. (2000) Essays on Australian Reconciliation , Black Inc.

Michelle Grossman ed (2003) Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians , Melbourne University Press

Dianne Johnson (2002) Lighting the Way: Reconciliation Stories , The Federation Press

Sean Brennan, Larissa Behrendt, Lisa Strelein and George Williams (2005) Treaty , The Federation Press

Larissa Behrendt (2003) Achieving Social Justice: Indigenous Rights and Australia's Future , The Federation Press

Alexis Wright (1997) Grog War , Magabala Books

Aileen Moreton-Robinson (2000) Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism , University of Queensland Press

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Stolen Generations

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1997) Bringing Them Home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families , Commonwealth of Australia

Anna Haebich (2000) Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000 , Fremantle Arts Centre Press

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Aboriginal Organisations and Activism

Linda Briskman (2003) The Black Grapevine: Aboriginal Activism and the Stolen Generations , The Federation Press

Sue Taffe (2005) Black and White Together - FCAATSI: The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders 1958-1973 , University of Queensland Press

Ann Curthoys (2002) Freedom Ride: a freedom rider remembers , Allen & Unwin

Victorian Aborigines Advancement League (1985) Victims or Victors? The Story of the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League , Hyland House

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Biography/Autobiography

Bruce Pascoe ed. (1997) Wathaurong Too Bloody Strong: Stories and life journeys of people from Wathaurong , Pascoe Publishing

Sally Morgan (1987) My Place , Fremantle Arts Centre Press

Kevin Keeffe (2003) Paddy's Road: Life Stories of Patrick Dodson , Aboriginal Studies Press

Isabel Flick and Heather Goodall (2004) Isabel Flick: The many lives of an extraordinary Aboriginal woman , Allen & Unwin

Ruby Langford (1988) Don't take your love to town , Penguin

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Aboriginal/Indigenous Health

Stephen J. Kunitz (1994) Disease and Social Diversity: The European Impact on the Health of Non-Europeans , Oxford University Press

Kim Humphery and Tarun Weeramanthri with Joseph Fitz (2001) Forgetting Compliance: Aboriginal Health and Medical Culture , Northern Territory University Press in association with the Co-operative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health

Warwick Anderson (2002) The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia , Melbourne University Press

Alison Booth and Nick Carroll (2005) The Health Status of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians , Discussion Paper No. 486, ANU Centre for Economic Policy Research

David Piers Thomas (2004) Reading Doctors' Writing: Race, politics and power in Indigenous health research 1870-1969 , Aboriginal Studies Press

Neil Thomson, Jane Burns, Samantha Burrow and Ellie Kirov (2004) Overview of Indigenous Health 2004 , Australian Indigenous Health Info Net Perth

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Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Tourism

Lonely Planet (2001) Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait Islands guide to Indigenous Australia , Lonely Planet Publications

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Working in Culturally Appropriate Ways

Angela Clarke, Shawana Andrews and Neville Austin (undated) Lookin' after our own: Supporting Aboriginal Families through the hospital experience , Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and VicHealth

Royal Women's Hospital (1998) Right of Ways: Working towards improving access and equity for Indigenous women in mainstream health services , RWH

Barbara Wingard and Jane Lester (2001) Telling our stories in ways that make us stronger , Dulwich Centre Publications

Wendy Weeks (2002) Cultural Diversity and Services Against Sexual Violence, A Report from the National Association of Services Against Sexual Violence (NASASV) , produced by CASA House Melbourne

Municipal Association of Victoria (2002) Toomnangi: Indigenous Communities and Local Government - a Victorian Study , Indigenous Interagency Co-ordination Committee for Local Government, Municipal Association of Victoria

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Place and Cultural Studies

Peter Read (2000) Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership , Cambridge University Press

Mark McKenna (2002) Looking for Blackfellas' Point: An Australian History of Place , UNSW Press

Tim Bonyhady & Tom Griffiths eds (2002) Words for Country: Landscape and language in Australia , UNSW Press

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Contact: Koori Human Services Unit, Department of Human Services, 20/50 Lonsdale St, Melbourne 3000
Telephone (03) 9096 7032
Email: koori@dhs.vic.gov.au