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• Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines, by W. E. Thomas (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Stone Axe of Burkamukk (London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., 1922), by Mary Grant Bruce, illust. by J. MacFarlane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustarted HTML
• Night skies of aboriginal Australia : a noctuary (The University of Sydney, 1998), by Dianne Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Djugurba : tales from the spirit time. (Australian National University Press, 1974) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folklore of the Australian aborigines. (Hennessey, Harper and company, 1899), by R. H. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)

• Djugurba : tales from the spirit time. (Australian National University Press ;, 1976) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Legend of Kupirri, or, The Red Kangaroo: An Aboriginal Tradition of the Port Lincoln Tribe, by W. A. Cawthorne (Gutenberg ebook)

• Milbi : aboriginal tales from Queensland's Endeavour River (Australian National University Press, 1979), by Tulo Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Native Tribes of Central Australia (London: Macmillan and Co., 1899), by Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (London: Macmillan and Co., 1914), by Baldwin Spencer
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Northern Tribes of Central Australia (London and New York: Macmillan, 1904), by Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Extraction practices and technology on the Charters Towers goldfield (North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University ;, 1982), by Diane Menghetti, Alan Powell, and Terry G. Birtles (page images at HathiTrust)
• White man got no dreaming : essays, 1938-1973 (Australian National University Press ;, 1979), by W. E. H. Stanner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social organization in aboriginal Australia (Australian National University Press, 1979), by Warren Shapiro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aboriginal man and environment in Australia. (Australian National University Press, 1971), by Jack Golson and Derek John Mulvaney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australia and homeward (W. Briggs ;, 1888), by D. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Australian aboriginal (AMS Press, 1979), by Herbert Basedow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die politische Organisation bei den australischen Eingeborenen; ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Staates. (W. de Gruyter, 1919), by Alfred Knabenhans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Note on the aboriginal races of Australia : a paper read at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held at York, September, 1864 (Emily Faithfull, printer and publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, 83A, Farrington Street, E.C., 1865), by Florence Nightingale and Eng.) National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain). Meeting (1864 : York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Narrinyeri : an account of the tribes of south Australian aborigines inhabiting the country around the Lakes Alexandrina, Albert and Coorong, and the lower part of the river Murray: their manners and customs. Also, an account of the mission at Point Macleay. (J. T. Shawyer, printer, 1874), by George Taplin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Language of the aborigines of the colony of Victoria and other Australian districts; with parallel translations ... as a guide to aboriginal protectors and others engaged in ameliorating their condition. (Melbourne, 1851), by Daniel Bunce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Australian captive : or, An authentic narrative of fifteen years in the life of William Jackman in which, among various other adventures, is included a forced residence of a year and a half among the cannibals of Nuyt's Land of the coast of the great Austrialian bight : also including, with other appendices, Australia and its gold, from the latest and best authorities (C.M. Saxton, 1859), by William Jackman and Israel Chamberlayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Western Australia. Correspondence relating to the proposed abolition of the Aborigines Protection Board of Western Australia ... (H.M. Stationery Off., 1897), by Great Britain Colonial Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special volume of the proceedings of the Geographical Society of Australasia : with maps and illustrations (T. Richards, govt. printer, 1885), by Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, J. A. Panton, Alexander Morton, and John F. Mann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australia and homeward (W. Briggs;, 1888), by D. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aborigines of Australia (Boolarong Publications for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee of the Queensland Bicentennial Council, 1988), by Roderick J. Flanagan and Australian Bicentennial Authority. Queensland Council. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The aborigines of Australia (E.F. Flanagan [etc.], 1888), by Roderick J. Flanagan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land of the dawning : being facts gleaned from cannibals in the Australian Stone Age ([publisher not identified], 1896), by W. H. Willshire (page images at HathiTrust)
• The aborigines of Australia (McCarron, Bird, 1909), by William Ramsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Across Australia (AMS Press, 1973), by Baldwin Spencer and Francis James Gillen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Archaeology with ethnography : an Australian perspective (Dept. of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, 1988), by Rhys Jones, Betty Meehan, and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific Studies. Department of Prehistory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aborigines in Australian society. (Australian National University Press., 1970), by Social Science Research Council of Australia and Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethnological series. (The Survey], 1899), by Geological Survey of New South Wales (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Origin of Australian beliefs (Anthropos-Administration, 1922), by Lambert Ehrlich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Folklore of the Australian aborigines. (Hennessey, Harper and company, 1899), by R. H. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The little black princess of the never-never (Robertson & Mullens, 1900), by Jeannie Gunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Australian aboriginal, by Herbert Basedow (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Aborigines of Australia, by Richard Sadleir (Gutenberg ebook)

• Alcohol in the outback : two studies of drinking (Australian National University, North Australia Research Unit, 1984), by Maggie Brady and Kingsley Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aborigine culture history, a survey of publications, 1954-1957. (Wayne State University Press, 1962), by Arnold R. Pilling (page images at HathiTrust)

• A national survey of indigenous Australians : options and implications (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1992), by Jon C. Altman and Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia (Dulau, 1896), by Horn Scientific Expedition (1894), William Austin Horn, and Baldwin Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)

• A matter of justice (Australian National University Press ;, 1978), by C. D. Rowley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beiträge zur vergleichenden Ethnologie und Anthropologie der Neuholländer, Polynesier und Melanesier (Druck der Dieterischchen Univ.-Buchdruckerei, 1905), by John Krueger-Kelmar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A matter of justice (Australian National University Press ;, 1978), by C. D. Rowley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aboriginal component in the Australian economy. (Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University, 1981), by Australian National University. Development Studies Centre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tribal communities in rural areas (Development Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1981), by E. A. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• All that dirt : aborigines 1938 (History Project, Inc., Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1982), by Andrew Markus and Bill Gammage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Visible and invisible : Aboriginal people in the economy of Northern Australia (North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University :, 1993), by G. J. Crough, Nugget Coombs Forum for Indigenous Studies, and Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Look forward, not back : Aborigines in metropolitan Brisbane, 1965-1966 (Australian National University Press, 1975), by Hazel M. Smith and Ellen H. Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regional change in the economic status of indigenous Australians, 1986-91 (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1993), by J. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.