JAC'S STORY


Web sites and resources with Indigenous Australian information 


Web sites

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Studies – Government policy documents and cultural sensitivity research and advice.
​https://aiatsis.gov.au/research/finding-your-family/family-history-sources

Koorie Heritage Trust

http://koorieheritagetrust.com.au/

Melbourne Museum - Bunjilaka

https://museumsvictoria.com.au/bunjilaka/

Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc.
http://www.vaeai.org.au

Wurundjeri - Official Web site
https://www.wurundjeri.com.au

Boonwurrung - Official Web site
http://www.boonwurrung.org/

Gunditjmara - Community Controlled Organisation
http://www.gunditjmara.org.au/

Monash University - Country Lines Archive

http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/countrylines-archive/ 

Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage
https://epicaustralia.org.au/

Beagle Bay Mission, Cape Leveque WA 
http://missionaries.griffith.edu.au/mission/beagle-bay-1890-2000
 
Kimberley Language Resource Centre – Halls Creek

https://www.klrc.org.au
 
Halls Creek Art and Cultural Centre

http://desertriversea.com.au
 
Sisters of St John of God Heritage Centre – Family Centre 
http://www.visitbroome.com.au/broome/ssjg-heritage-centre-broome
 
Broome Historical Museum – Pearling Industry and War History 
http://www.visitbroome.com.au/broome/broome-historical-museum

​State Library of Western Australia

https://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/explore-discover/indigenous-wa/family-history/wa-indigenous-family-history-resources
 
Aboriginal Exemption

https://aboriginalexemption.com.au/index.html 
 
Find and Connect – Australian Adoption policy and family documents

https://www.findandconnect.gov.au
 
Archives.com – Indigenous and non-Indigenous family documents

https://www.archives.com
 
Ancestry.com – Indigenous and non-Indigenous family documents

https://www.ancestry.com.au
 
MyHeritage.com – Indigenous and non-Indigenous 
family documents

https://www.myheritage.com
 
State Records Office of Western Australia

http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/archive-collection/collection/aboriginal-records/aboriginal-family-history

Books

Walter Eatts, Somewhere between, not white, not black, not wanted. All in one Book Design 
www.allinonebookdesign.com.au , 2014, WA
 
Doolann Leisha Eatts, Ngullah Boodjah Ngaadj Nyungah Myah, Our Counrty, my Nyungah Home, All in one Book Design 
www.allinonebookdesign.com.au , 2014, WA
 
Lynette Russell, A little Bird Told Me – Family secrets, necessary lies, Allen & Unwin, 2002, NSW

James W. Pennebaker and John F. Evans, Expressive Writing: Words that Heal, Idyl Arbor Inc. 2014
 
Stephen Gray, The Protectors, a journey through whitefella past. Allen & Unwin , 2011, Sydney
 
Pat Jacobs, Mister Neville, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1990, WA
 
G.J.C. McDonald (Ex. Inspector of Police), Beyond Boundary Fences- Some incidents of Life on the Goldfields of Western Australia, Hesperian Press, 1996, WA
 
Christine Choo, Mission Girls – Aboriginal Women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia 1900-1950, University of Western Australia Press, 2001, WA
 
Edited by Tony Swain and Deborah Bird Rose, Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions, The Australian Association for the Study of Religions, 1988 

John Pilger, A Secret Country, Johnathan Cape, 1989, London
 
Jan Critchett, Untold Stories - Memories and lives of Victorian Kooris, Melbourne University Press, 1998, Melbourne
 
Doris Pilkington, Nugi Garimara. Rabbit Proof Fence, University of Queensland Press, 1991, Queensland
 
Edited by Mary Ann Bin-Sallik, Aboriginal women by Degrees – Their stories of the journey towards academic achievement, University of Queensland Press, 2000, QLD
 
Christine Choo, Mission Girls, Aboriginal women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberly, Western Australia, 1900-1950, University of Western Australia Press, 2001, WA
 
J.R.B Love (1889-1947), Kimberly People Stone Age Bushman of Today, Australian Aboriginal Cultural Series No6, Published by David Welch, 1936, reprinted 2009, NT
 
Eric Lawford, Jock Shandley, Jummy Bird, Ivan Watson, Peter Clancy, Jogn Watson, Lochy Green, Harry Watson & Barney Barnes. Edited by Paul Marshall, Raparapa- all right, now we go ‘longside the river, Stories from the Fitzroy River Drovers, Magabala Books, Broome, 1989
 
Articles

​ 2018 AMA Report Card on Indigenous Health - Rebuilding the Closing the Gap Health Strategy: and a Review of the 2016 and 2017 AMA Indigenous Health Report Card Recommendations 
https://ama.com.au/article/2018-ama-report-card-indigenous-health-rebuilding-closing-gap-health-strategy-and-review
 
“Advocates fear NSW child protection bill reduces rights of birth parents” The Guardian, 25th September 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/25/advocates-fear-nsw-child-protection-bill-reduces-rights-of-birth-parents

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