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Media & Resources
Activism and Politics
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- For the record: Sovereignty Never Ceded
- Freedom Fighters memorial call
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History - Activist - Publications - Theses - Essays - Docs
| History & Activism | ||
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Short History of the Australian Indigenous Resistance 1950 - 1990 - Gary Foley | PDF File (1.31 MB) |
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‘Incidents between Aboriginal people in NSW & British colonisers 1792-1809 | PDF File (278.88 KB) |
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Aboriginal Provisional Government 1990, Towards Aboriginal Sovereignty | PDF File (38.14 KB) |
| Language Maps
We recommend you review these maps before downloading - go to: Australian First Nations Language Maps panning. Boundaries and other details may not be accurate - for general use only.
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AIATSIS Aboriginal Australia Tribal - Language Map | PDF File (12,212 kb) |
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First Australians Language Map | PDF File (5,889 kb) |
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Australian Tribal Boundaries Map | PDF File (26,581 KB) |
| Graphs and Diagrams | ||
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Comparison of Land Rights and Native Title - by Central Land Council | PDF File (149.46 KB) |
| Theses | ||
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Genocide: Study of the impact of colonisation - Paul Councel | PDF File (1.87 MB) |
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A.O. Neville, the 'destiny of the race' - 1930's race thinking - Alan D. Charlton | PDF File (16 MB) |
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Assertion of Tasmanian Aboriginality 1976 to Mabo - Dennis W. Daniels | PDF File (16 MB) |
| Letters to Dominent Governement | ||
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Letter to Jenny Macklin MP from Alastair Nicholson AO - 2011 | PDF File (49.13 KB) |
| Aboriginal Sovereignty Justice The Law and Land
A publication by Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993) - Currently out of print. Includes a 'Draft Treaty' drawn up after consultation with Aboriginal Members of the Sovereign Aboriginal Coalition in Alice Springs on 19th to 21st June 1987 and incorporating advice of the Aboriginal Sovereign communities. An eBook is available at http://kevingilbert.org/
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| Sovereignty Never Ceded - Thesis
Indigenous sovereignty never ceded"; sovereignty, nationhood and whiteness in Australia - Angela M. Pratt, University of Wollongong - 2003
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Thesis: Indigenous sovereignty never ceded - Angela M. Pratt | Contents - pdf 945 kb |
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Thesis: Indigenous sovereignty never ceded - Angela M. Pratt | Chapter 1 - pdf - 945 kb |
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Thesis: Indigenous sovereignty never ceded - Angela M. Pratt | Chapter 2 - pdf - 3506 kb |
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Thesis: Indigenous sovereignty never ceded - Angela M. Pratt | Chapter 3 - pdf - 2871 kb |
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Thesis: Indigenous sovereignty never ceded - Angela M. Pratt | Chapter 4 - pdf - 2600 kb |
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Thesis: Indigenous sovereignty never ceded - Angela M. Pratt | Chapter 5 - pdf - 4125 kb |
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Thesis: Indigenous sovereignty never ceded - Angela M. Pratt | Chapter 6 - pdf - 2756 kb |
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Thesis: Indigenous sovereignty never ceded - Angela M. Pratt | Chapter 7 - pdf - 418 kb |
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Thesis: Indigenous sovereignty never ceded - Angela M. Pratt | Bibliography - pdf - 2198 kb |
| Human rights and first Australians' well-being - Thesis | ||
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Human rights and first Australians' well-being - Gracelyn Smallwood | Thesis Front - PDF file 1181kb |
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Human rights and first Australians' well-being - Gracelyn Smallwood | Whole Thesis - PDF File 4mb |
| Papers, Speeches & Essays | |||||||||||
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John Saunders Lecture 2009: Australia - whole land? by Dr Peter Adam | PDF file | |||||||||
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The Treaty Project - University of NSW | PDF file | |||||||||
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Reconciliation, Nationalism & History Wars - Dr Andrew Gunstone Monash Uni | PDF file | |||||||||
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Aboriginal Radical Discourses in Australia - Political Marginalisation Université Paris III | PDF file (55.64 KB) | |||||||||
| General Documents | ||
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Comparison between Land Rights and Native Title NSWALC | PDF File (456.07 KB) |