Abstract: Brady, Maggie Review(s) of: Atomic thunder: The Maralinga story, by Elizabeth Tynan xv + 373pp., NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2016, ISBN 9781742234281(pbk), $34.99.
Abstract: McGregor, Russell Review(s) of: Making a Difference: Fifty Years of Indigenous Programs at Monash University, 1964-2014, by Rani Kerin, xii + 158pp., Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2016, ISBN 9781925377248 (pbk), $29.95.
Abstract: McLaren, Annemarie The Aboriginal people of the Burragorang Valley: 'If we left the valley our hearts would break', by Jim Smith 332pp., Blue Mountains Education and Research Trust, Lawson, 2016, ISBN 9780994155559 (pbk), $50.00.
Abstract: Redmond, Anthony Review(s) of: 'Every Mother's son is guilty': Policing in the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905, by Chris Owen, 640pp., UWA Publishing, Crawley, 2016, ISBN 9781742586687 (pbk), $50.00.
Abstract: Burke, Heather; Wallis, Lynley A; Barker, Bryce; Tutty, Megan; Cole, Noelene; Davidson, Iain; Hatte, Elizabeth; Lowe, Kelsey Houses are quintessential statements of identity, encoding elements of personal and social attitudes, aspirations and realities. As functional containers for human life, they reflect the exigencies of their construction and occupation, as well as the alterations that ensued as contexts, occupants and uses changed. As older houses endure into subsequent social contexts, they become drawn into later symbolic landscapes, connoting both past and present social relationships simultaneously and connecting the two via the many ways they are understood and represented in the present. As historical archaeologist Anne Yentsch has argued: 'Many cultural values, including ideas about power relationships and social inequality, are expressed within the context of the stories surrounding houses'.1 This paper is one attempt to investigate the stories surrounding a ruined pastoral homestead in central northern Queensland in light of relationships between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal people on the frontier.
Abstract: Newton, Janice Soon after separation of Port Phillip District from New South Wales, in 1851 and 1852, Guardian of Aborigines William Thomas witnessed and recorded new corroborees at Moonee Ponds, west of Melbourne, and on the northern bank of the Yarra. The first ceremony in 1851 was performed by the Wathawurrung from Leigh Creek, Buninyong and Bacchus Marsh and a few Bunwurrung from Melbourne. A leader, Ninggollobin, told Thomas that it was a new 'Sunday' or sacred dance sent down from the clouds by Veinnee (also spelt Vienie) to the Mt Emu Wathawurrung people.
Abstract: Young, Diana JB Deaconess Winifred Hilliard arrived at the Presbyterian Ernabella mission craft room in far north-west South Australia in 1954 to work as a qualified missionary. She was 33.1 Her job: to work among Pitjantjatjara women as the 'handcraft supervisor' at the mission.
Abstract: Hughes, Karen Stationed at General Douglas MacArthur's Australian headquarters, the famous black war correspondent Vincent Tubbs reported in the Baltimore Afro-American, 25 March 1944: 'I know of 10 cases in which our boys have married Australian girls. In eight instances the girls are of mixed blood. In the other two, they are so called "pure Australian girls"', adding, 'They have real concern as to how they will get their wives home on one of Uncle Sam's ships'.
Abstract: Krichauff, Skye On 17 September 1849, Henry Valette Jones and Henry Thomas Morris appeared at the Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court charged with the wilful murder of Melaityappa, a Narungga man from Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Described as 'pale, wasted and thoughtful', Jones and Morris were 'very different from the ruddy, reckless, dashing young fellows' who appeared at their Police Court trial three weeks earlier. Jones and Morris's incarceration and Supreme Court trial occurred during a crucial stage of Indigenous-settler relations in the 13-year-old colony's history. Disturbing news of outbreaks of violence and fatalities on Yorke and Eyre peninsulas had been reaching Adelaide since January 1849.3 For numerous reasons, the trial was unprecedented. It provided a unique opportunity to test the much-vaunted, consoling perception held by many South Australian colonists that, in their colony at least, Aboriginal people were protected and treated as equals under British law. Government officials, pastoralists and newspaper editors had strong and diverse opinions on who was to blame for settler-Aboriginal violence and how conflict could be avoided. The case bought to the fore the tension - or rather incompatibility - between humanitarian concerns for the 'natives' and the protection of colonists' interests (and the interests other citizens of Britain who lived in the British Isles or at various outposts of the British Empire).
Abstract: Brodie, Nicholas Dean Art history is replete with works whose prior existence is affirmed only by text, most commonly through titles and descriptions in catalogues, but also by passing mentions in other sources. A significant Australian colonial illustration of this phenomenon of textually surviving lost art concerns 'Several Paintings on Panel', described in detail by a colonial witness, which depict scenes intended to convey government messages to Indigenous Tasmanians during the Vandemonian War. These descriptions do not match the better known and frequently reproduced Tasmanian Picture Boards, typified, which survive in several archives around the world and have been the subject of considerable study and commentary. Their iconographical recovery is, we argue, an important correction to the imagery of frontier relations in 1820s and 1830s Van Diemen's Land specifically and colonial Australia more generally.
Abstract: Vanderbyl, Nikita On the afternoon of 16 January 1895, a group of visitors to the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, gathered to perform songs and hymns with the Aboriginal residents of Lake Tyers Aboriginal Mission. Several visitors from the nearby Lake Tyers House assisted with the preparations and an audience of Aboriginal mission residents and visitors spent a pleasant summer evening performing together and enjoying refreshments. The 'program' included an opening hymn by 'the Aborigines' followed by songs and hymns sung by friends of the mission, the missionary's daughter and a duet by two Aboriginal women, Mrs E. O'Rourke and Mrs Jennings, who in particular received hearty applause for their performance of 'Weary Gleaner'. The success of this shared performance is recorded by an anonymous hand in the Lake Tyers visitor book, noting that 9 pounds 6 shillings was collected from the enthusiastic audience. The missionary's wife, Caroline Bulmer, was most likely responsible for this note celebrating the success of an event that stands out among the comments of visitors to Lake Tyers. One such visitor was a woman named Miss Florrie Powell who performed the song 'The Old Countess' after the duet by Mrs O'Rourke and Mrs Jennings. She wrote effusively in the visitor book that 'to give you an idea of enjoyment down here would be impossible. Everyone must find out for him or herself. The happiest time of my life was spent here. The kindness of Mrs and Mr Bulmer is past description'.
Abstract: James, Diana Review(s) of: Pictures from my memory: My story as a Ngaatjatjarra woman, by Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis, introduced and edited by Laurent Dousset, xv + 153pp., Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2016, ISBN 9780855750350 ISBN (pbk), $34.95.
Abstract: De Lorenzo, Catherine Review(s) of: Photography, humanitarianism, empire, by Jane Lydon, xiv + 187pp., Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2016, ISBN 9781350027435 (pbk), $43.99.
Abstract: Edmonds, Penelope Review(s) of: Fragile settlements: Aboriginal peoples, law, and resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada, by Amanda Nettelbeck, Russell Smandych, Louis A. Knafla and Robert Foster, xi + 315 pp., UBC Press, Vancouver, 2016, ISBN 9780774830898 (pbk), CA$34.95.
Abstract: Ryan, Lyndall Review(s) of: Into the heart of Tasmania: A search for human antiquity, by Rebe Taylor, 270 pp., Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, 2017, ISBN 9780522867961 (pbk), $34.99.
Abstract: Goodall, Heather Review(s) of: Mistress of everything: Queen Victoria in indigenous worlds, edited by Sarah Carter and Maria Nugent 280 pp., Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2016, ISBN: 9781784991401 (hbk), 75.00 pounds.
Abstract: Read, Peter Review(s) of: Hidden in Plain View: Hidden in plain view: The Aboriginal people of Coastal Sydney, by Paul Irish, xi + 206 pp., illust., NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2017, ISBN 9781742235110 (pbk), $34.99.
Abstract: Ellis, Elizabeth Marrkilyi; Kral, Inge Review(s) of: Wanarn painters of place and time: Old age travels in the Tjukurrpa, by David Brooks and Darren Jorgensen, ix + 111pp., illus., UWA Publishing, Crawley, 2015, ISBN: 9781742585536 (pbk), $39.99.
Abstract: Cane, Peter Review(s) of: Indigenous Australians, social justice and legal reform: Honouring Elliott Johnston, edited by Hossein Ismaeili, Gus Worby and Simone Tur, xx + 314 pp., The Federation Press, Sydney, 2016, ISBN 9781760020613 (pbk), $84.95; Constitutional recognition of first peoples in Australia: Theories and comparative perspectives, edited by Simon Young, Jennifer Nielson and Jeremy Patrick, xxiv + 280 pp., The Federation Press, Sydney, 2016, ISBN: 9781760020781 (pbk), $84.95; Treaty and statehood: Aboriginal self-determination, by Michael Mansell, ix + 301 pp., The Federation Press, Sydney, 2016, ISBN 9781760020835 (pbk), $59.95.
Abstract: Gerristen, Rolf Review(s) of: A handful of sand: The Gurindji struggle, after the walk-off, by Charlie Ward, xxxii + 352pp., Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2016, ISBN 9781925377163 (pbk), $29.95.
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