Unsettled exhibition references

Review the reference materials supporting the Unsettled exhibition content.

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The Australian Museum presents Unsettled, developed in consultation with First Nations peoples and communities.

Throughout the exhibition, the curators have sourced historical records and research to reinforce the First Nations stories told. This includes referencing colonial records and acknowledging that history is told from multiple perspectives.

Review the reference materials supporting the content presented in the exhibition.

Unsettled Introduction section

Manly mogo label:
Behrendt, L. (2016). Finding Eliza: Power and colonial storytelling. University of Queensland Press.

Wailwan grindstone label:
Dodson, J., Fullagar, R., Furby, J., Jones, R., & Prosser, I. (1993). Humans and megafauna in a late Pleistocene environment from Cuddie Springs, north western New South Wales. Archaeology In Oceania, 28(2), 94-99.

Dodson, J., Fullagar, R., Furby, J., Jones, R., & Prosser, I. (1993). Humans and megafauna in a late Pleistocene environment from Cuddie Springs, north western New South Wales. Archaeology In Oceania, 28(2), 94-99.

See also (regarding fragment CS6034): Fullagar, R., & Field, J. (1997). Pleistocene seed-grinding implements from the Australian arid zone. Antiquity, 71(272), 300-307.

Fletcher, M. (2020). This rainforest was once a grassland savanna maintained by Aboriginal people, Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. From https://epicaustralia.org.au/this-rainforest-was-once-a-grassland-savanna-maintained-by-aboriginal-people/

Gammage, B. (2012). The biggest estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia. Allen & Unwin.

Mungo footprint label:
Mungo National Park. (2021). Ancient Footprints. From https://visitmungo.com.au/

Recognising Invasions section

Recognising Invasions panel:
Ryan, L. (2020). Mapping the Sites of Frontier Massacres. Lecture, National Library of Australia.

Goodall, H. (2008). Invasion to embassy: Land in Aboriginal politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972. Sydney University Press.

Reynolds, H. (2006). The other side of the frontier: Aboriginal resistance to the European invasion of Australia (revised edition). University of New South Wales Press.

Mabo v Queensland (No 2) [1992] HCA 23, (1992) 175 CLR 1.

Keating, P. (1992). Redfern Speech (Year for the World’s Indigenous People). Speech, Redfern Park, NSW, Australian Government. From https://antar.org.au/sites/default/files/paul_keating_speech_transcript.pdf

Rudd, K. (2008). Apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples. Speech, Canberra, ACT, Australian Government. From www.aph.gov.au/house/Rudd_Speech.pdf

Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. (2000). Reconciliation: Australia’s challenge. Final report of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation to the Prime Minister and the Commonwealth Parliament. Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.

Australian Government. (1991). Final Report: Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Research paper, Parkes, ACT, Australian Government Publishing Service.

Australian Human Rights Commission. (1997). Bringing them home: Report of the national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Chapter 21 (Child Welfare Care and Protection). From https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/bringing-them-home-chapter-21

Captain Cook Taking Possession illustration label:
Beaglehole, J.C., ed. (1962). Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks 1768-1771. Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales in association with Angus and Robertson: Sydney, 109-110 (21 August entry).

Contested Possession “Did You Know?”:
Naval Historical Society of Australia. (2019). Possession Island. From https://www.navyhistory.org.au/possession-island/

Morning Star Pole label:
Behrendt, L., Miller, R., Ruru, J., & Lindberg, T. (2010). Discovering indigenous lands: The doctrine of discovery in the English colonies. Oxford University Press.

Map of Documented Voyages to Australia Before Cook label:
Behrendt, L., Miller, R., Ruru, J., & Lindberg, T. (2010). Discovering indigenous lands: The doctrine of discovery in the English colonies. Oxford University Press.

Plans for a Colony “Did You Know?”:
ORIMA Research, 2019: referred to in Gapps, S. and Riethoff, S. (2019-2020). Mythbusting Cook. Signals, 129, 16-19.

Testimony From Bunbury Parliamentary Committee label:
Tink, A. (2005). The role of parliamentary committee witnesses in the foundation of Australia. Australasian Parliamentary Review, 20(2), 33-38.

James Mario (Maria) Matra’s Proposal label:
McNab, R. (1908). James Maria Matra’s proposal. In Historical Records of New Zealand, Vol. I (pp. 35-46). Wellington, John Mackey, government printer. From http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-McN01Hist-t1-front-d1-d1.html

Terra nullius panel:
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2015). The White possessive: Property, power, and indigenous sovereignty. University of Minnesota Press.

Connor, M. (2005). The invention of Terra Nullius: Historical and legal fictions on the foundation of Australia. Macleay Press.

Watson, I. (2014). Re-centring First Nations knowledge and places in a Terra Nullius space. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 10(5), 508-520.

Treaty “Did You Know?”:
Marshallsea, T. (2017). Why doesn’t Australia have an indigenous treaty? BBC News. From https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40024622

Shaw, M. (2019). Treaty. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/treaty

Uncle Gordon Syron painting label:
McBride, L. and Smith, M. (2019). The 2020 Project. First Nations Community Consultation Report. Sydney, NSW, Australian Museum. https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/the-2020-project/

Fighting Wars section

Fort Bourke “Did You Know?”:
Monument Australia, Fort Bourke Stockade. From https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/landscape/exploration/display/20483-fort-bourke-stockade

Death Spear label:
Tench, W. (1793 [1979]). A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson (p. 205).

The Sydney Wars section:
Gapps, S. (2018). The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony, 1788-1817. NewSouth.

Remembering Massacres section

Map of Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia label:
Ryan, L., Richards, J., Pascoe, W., Debenham, J., Gilbert, S., Anders, R J., Brown, M., Smith, R., Price, D., Newley, J. (2018). Colonial Frontier Massacres in Eastern Australia 1788 to 1930, Vol. 2.1. Newcastle, University of Newcastle. https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/introduction.php

No Justice, No Peace panel:
Dodson, P., Wootten, H., O'Dea, D., Wyvill, L. and Johnston, E. (1991). Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: Final Report. Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), Government of Australia.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2018). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stolen generations and descendants: Numbers, demographic characteristics and selected outcomes. Canberra, ACT, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Cunneen, C. and Tauri, J. (2016). Indigenous criminology (1st ed., Vol. 1). Policy Press.

Baldry, E., & Cunneen, C. (2014). Imprisoned indigenous women and the shadow of colonial patriarchy. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 47(2), 276-298.

Porter, A. (2018). Non-state policing, legal pluralism and the mundane governance of “crime.” The Sydney Law Review, 40(4), 445-467.

Deaths In Custody “Did You Know?”:
Dodson, P., Wootten, H., O'Dea, D., Wyvill, L. and Johnston, E. (1991). Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: Final Report. Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), Government of Australia.

Newitt, R. (2021). Four Aboriginal deaths in custody in three weeks: Is defunding police the answer? The Conversation (Australia). From https://theconversation.com/four-aboriginal-deaths-in-custody-in-three-weeks-is-defunding-police-the-answer-157879

Surviving Genocide section

Surviving Genocide panel:
Tatz, C. (2011). Genocide in Australia: By accident or design?. Monash University.

Maddison, S. (2011). Beyond white guilt: The real challenge for black-white relations in Australia. Allen & Unwin.

Moses, D. (2000). An antipodean genocide? The origins of the genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia, Journal of Genocide Research, 2:1, 89-106.

Jones, A. (2017). Genocides of Indigenous Peoples. In Genocide: A comprehensive introduction (pp. 809-869). New York, NY, Routledge.

O’Shane, P. (1995). The psychological impact of white settlement on Aboriginal people. Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, 19(3), 24-29.

McGregor, R. (1997). Imagined destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the doomed race theory, 1880–1939. Melbourne University Press.

Tatz, C. (2016). Australia: The ‘good’ genocide perpetrator? Health and History, 18(2), 85-98. doi:10.5401/healthhist.18.2.0085

Missions, Reserves, and Stations panel:
Paisley, F. (2014). An echo of black slavery: Emancipation, forced labour and Australia in 1933. Australian Historical Studies, 45(1), 103-125.

Miley, F., & Read, A. (2018). This degrading and stealthy practice: Accounting, stigma and indigenous wages in Australia 1897-1972. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability, 31(2), 456-477.

Grewcock, M. (2018). Settler-colonial violence, primitive accumulation and Australia’s genocide. State Crime, 7(2), 222-250. https://doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.7.2.0222

O’Shane, P. (1995). The psychological impact of white settlement on Aboriginal people. Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, 19(3), 24-29.

Moran, A. (2005). White Australia, settler nationalism and Aboriginal assimilation. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 51(2), 168-193. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2005.00369.x

Stock Whip label:
Hagan, J., & Castle, R. (2011). Settlers and the state: The creation of an Aboriginal workforce in Australia. Aboriginal History, 22. https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.22.2011.02

Gunstone, A. (2012). Indigenous Peoples and stolen wages in Victoria, 1869–1957. In Fijn N., Keen I., Lloyd C., & Pickering M. (Eds.), Indigenous participation in Australian economies II: Historical engagements and current enterprises (pp. 181-196).

Curthoys, A., & Mitchell, J. (2018). Little short of slavery: Forced Aboriginal labour in Western Australia, 1856–1884. In Taking Liberty (pp. 361-384). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316027035.017

Miley, F., & Read, A. (2018). This degrading and stealthy practice: Accounting, stigma and indigenous wages in Australia 1897-1972. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability, 31(2), 456-477. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-10-2014-1839

Walden, I. (1995). That was slavery days: Aboriginal domestic servants in New South Wales in the twentieth century. Labour History, (69).

Kidd, R. (2006). Trustees on trial recovering the stolen wages. Aboriginal Studies Press.

Payne, M. (2006). Unfinished business: Indigenous stolen wages. Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs.

Brungle chain label:
Dr Kristyn Harman & Dr Elizabeth Grant (2014) ‘Impossible to Detain ... without Chains’?: The use of Restraints on Aboriginal People in Policing and Prisons, History Australia, 11:3, 157-1.

The Help label:
Curthoys, A., & Mitchell, J. (2018). Little short of slavery: Forced Aboriginal labour in Western Australia, 1856–1884. In Taking Liberty (pp. 361-384). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316027035.017

Paisley, F. (2014). An echo of black slavery: Emancipation, forced labour and Australia in 1933. Australian Historical Studies, 45(1), 103-125.

Slavery and the slave trade in Australia (1883). The Anti-Slavery Reporter, 3(6), 162-164.

Reported outrages on Queensland Aborigines (1891). The Anti-Slavery Reporter, 11(5), 232.

In reference to the contemporary notion of slavery. See for instance: Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. (2017). 3. Defining and measuring modern slavery – Parliament of Australia. From https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Foreign_Affairs_Defence_and_Trade/ModernSlavery/Final_report/section?id=committees/reportjnt/024102/25035

Miley, F., & Read, A. (2018). This degrading and stealthy practice: Accounting, stigma and indigenous wages in Australia 1897–1972. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability, 31(2), 456-477.

Hindman, H. D., & Hindman, H. (2009). The world of child labor: An historical and regional survey. ProQuest Ebook Central.

Aboriginal servants (1908, October 21). Examiner (Launceston, Tas.: 1900–1954), p. 6 (Daily).

Aboriginal girls as domestic servants (1922, May 24). Sydney Mail (NSW: 1912–1938), p. 22.

Stolen Generations panel:
Productivity Commission. (2020). 16 Child protection services. From https://www.pc.gov.au/research/ongoing/report-on-government-services/2020/community-services/child-protection

Australian Bureau of Statistics (Oct 2010) 4704.0 – The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, ABS Website.

SNAICC – National voice for our children. (2019). The Family Matters Report 2019. Postscript Printing and Publishing, Eltham.

Aborigines Welfare Board Exemption Certificate label:
Ellinghaus, K., & Wickes, J. (2020). A moving female frontier: Aboriginal exemption and domestic service in Queensland, 1897–1914. Australian Historical Studies, 51(1), 19-3.

Briscoe, G. (2010). Race relations, work and education, 1964 to 1968. In Racial Folly (Vol. 20, p. 103). ANU E Press.

Chained Culture label:
Maddison, S. (2014) Missionary genocide: Moral illegitimacy and the churches in Australia. In Havea J. (eds) Indigenous Australia and the Unfinished Business of Theology. Postcolonialism and Religions. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Sorry label:
Productivity Commission. (2020). 16 Child protection services. From https://www.pc.gov.au/research/ongoing/report-on-government-services/2020/community-services/child-protection

Australian Bureau of Statistics (Oct 2010) 4704.0 – The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, ABS Website.

SNAICC – National voice for our children. (2019). The Family Matters Report 2019. Postscript Printing and Publishing, Eltham.

Australian Institute of Family Studies. (2021). Child protection and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. From https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/child-protection-and-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-children

Commonwealth of Australia (2015). Out of home care. Chapter 8 (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities). From https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Out_of_home_care/Report/c08

Newtown, B. (2021). Understanding child neglect from an Aboriginal worldview: Perceptions of Aboriginal parents and human services workers in a rural NSW community (Doctor of Philosophy). University of New South Wales.

Burton, J., Lewis, P., Lau, J., Stacey, C., Sydenham, E., Smith, F. et al. (2017). The Family Matters Report 2017: Measuring trends to turn the tide on the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care in Australia. Melbourne, SNAICC. From www.familymatters.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Family-Matters-Report-2017.pdf.

Healing Nations section

Implicit Bias “Did You Know?”:
Shirodkar, S. (2019). Bias against Indigenous Australians: Implicit association test results for Australia. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 22(3-4), 3-34.

Weaving Woman animation label:
Dockery, A.M. (2010). Culture and wellbeing: The case of indigenous Australians. Social indicators research, 99, 315-332.

Shepherd, S., Delgado, R., Sherwood, J., & Paradies, Y. (2017). The impact of indigenous cultural identity and cultural engagement on violent offending. BMC Public Health, 18(1). doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4603-2