Collection: Local History Reference

The highly regarded history of Australia's First Nations people since colonisation, fully updated for this fifth edition. In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society. Richard Broome tells the ...

Proposes new legislation for Aboriginal cultural heritage in Victoria; scope, guiding principles, objectives, definitions, administration of proposed Act.

This book will revolutionise the history of Indigenous involvement in Australian football in the second half of the nineteenth century. It collects new evidence to show how Aboriginal people saw the cricket and football played by those who had taken their land and resources and forced their way i...

The arrangement of this book leads the reader to a detailed discussion of the ecology, nomenclature, and structure of the Australian tribe.