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Aboriginal Studies 

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Government Departments and Agencies

AIATSIS - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Australian Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

National Native Title Tribunal

Government information - links from the Library's E-Reference page

 

Indigenous Newspapers

Koorie Mail -  is indexed by Infokoori from the State Library of NSW.

National Indigenous Times - has a searchable archive in full text from March 2002

 
 

Websites

General Resources

  • Indigenous Affairs Resources - contains government information resources, directories, statistics, issues. (Department of the Parliamentary Library)
  • Indigenous Australians - Hosted by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, this site contains a range of publications and assorted material
  • Indigenous Australians - State Library of New South Wales Collection

Aboriginal Art

Culture

History

Land Rights and Native Title

Reconciliation and Social Justice

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice (part of Australian Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission) Indigenous human rights issues such as stolen children and deaths in custody
  • AustLII Indigenous Law Resources Government reports and publications including the 'Bringing Them Home' report and 'Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody'
  • Reconciliation Australia An independent, not-for-profit body established in January 2001 to provide a continuing national focus for reconciliation. This site includes a wide range of publications, speeches and media releases as well as an archive of documents for the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation 1991-2000

 

 

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