A prehistory of Australia's history wars: The evolution of aboriginal history during the 1970s and 1980s

Australian Journal of Politics and History

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 439-454

  Veracini, Lorenzo ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 33748310565     PISSN: 00049522     EISSN: 14678497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00428.x     Document Type: Article

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57. See also Ryan, The Aboriginal Tasmanians.
58. S. Macintyre, A Concise History of Australia (Melbourne, 1999), p. 62.
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62. McGrath, "Born in the Cattle", pp. ix-x. Ibid.
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64. However, Robert Reece, for example maintained that a nationwide approach should be rejected.
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67. Reynolds, Frontier, Ibid., p. 189.
68. H. Reynolds, The Law of the Land (Melbourne, 1987).
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73. R. Broome, Australia: Two Centuries of War and Peace, Ibid., p. 120.
74. Ten years later, a similar contribution would go even further; the Encyclopaedia of Australian Battles included references to the engagements that took place between Aboriginal people and European or European-led forces. Over a number of 306 actions listed, around a sixth are made up of such engagements
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79. Beckett, Past and Present.
80. Beckett, Past and Present. Ibid., p. 194.
81. Beckett, Past and Present. Ibid., p. 191.
82. M. Fels, Good Men and True: The Aboriginal Police of the Port Phillip District, 1837-1853 (Melbourne, 1988).
83. M. Fels, Good Men and True: The Aboriginal Police of the Port Phillip District, 1837-1853, Ibid., p. 260'
84. See also L.E. Skinner, Police of the Pastoral Frontier (Brisbane, 1975)
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91. B. Attwood, The Making of the Aborigines, Ibid., pp. 118, 134.
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94. H. Reynolds, With the White People, p. 231. Ibid.
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96. See also N. Butlin, Our Original Aggression: Aboriginal Populations of South East Australia, 1788-1850 (Sydney, 1983), which deals with the introduction of European diseases and their impact on Aboriginal communities and population.
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