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• Convict labor -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
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• Sheep industry -- Australia -- History -- Sources
• Wool industry -- Australia -- History -- Sources

• Historical records of Australia. Series I. Governors dispatches to and from England. (Pub. by the Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament., 1914), by Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical records of Australia. Series III. Despatches and papers. (Pub. by the Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament., 1921), by Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Such was life; select documents in Australian social history (Ure Smith, 1969), by Russel Braddock Ward and John Robertson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A source book of Australian history (G. Bell and sons, ltd., 1919), by Gwendolen H. Swinburne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Journals and printed papers of the Federal Council of Australasia. (Govt. Printer, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical records of Australia. (Pub. by: the Library committee of the commonwealth Parliament, 1914), by Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee and J. Frederick Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australiana facsimile editions (Adelaide, Public Library of South Australia, 1962), by Libraries Board of South Australia and Public Library of South Australia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical records of Australia. (Published by the Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1788), by Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical records of Australia. (Published by the Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament., 1914), by Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee and Australia. Parliament. Library Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical records of Australia (W. G. Murray, Govt. Printer, Commonwealth of Australia, 1971), by Australia. Parliament. Library Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Source Book of Australian History, ed. by Gwendolen H. Swinburne (Gutenberg ebook)

• Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. (Australian National University Press, 1972), by Phyllis Mander-Jones, Australian National University, and National Library of Australia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short titles and index to microfilms PMB DOC 1-392 (Printed documents series) (The Bureau, 1980), by Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)

• The La Trobe Journal (partial serial archives)

• Resumed Series 3, dispatches and papers relating to the history of Tasmania (AGPS Press :, in the 20th century) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical records of New South Wales (Mona Vale, New South Wales : Lansdown Slattery & Co., 1978-1979., 1978), by New South Wales and F. M. Bladen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dear Fanny : women's letters to and from New South Wales, 1788-1857 (Australian National University Press, 1985), by Helen Heney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Beginnings of government in Australia. - (W. A. Gullick, Govt. Printer, 1913), by Frederick Watson and Australia. Parliament. Library Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical records of New South Wales. (C. Potter, Govt. Printer, 1892), by New South Wales and Frank Murcott Bladen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Brabourne papers ... A pamphlet containing a summary of the contents of these important papers. (Sydney, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New South Wales almanac and remembrancer for 1848, being bissextile or leap year. (Sydney : W.A. Colman, bookseller, publisher, and stationer, [1848], 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• New South Wales government gazette. (Govt. Print., 1832) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, by John Hunter, contrib. by Philip Gidley King and Arthur Phillip (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Bibliography of the First Fleet (Canberra et al.: Australian National University Press, 1981), by Victor Crittenden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dear Fanny : women's letters to and from New South Wales, 1788-1857 (Australian National University Press, 1985), by Helen Heney (page images at HathiTrust)

• South Australia : cxtracts from the official dispatches of Colonel Light, surveyor general of the Province of South Australia and from letters of settlers who have reached Nepean Bay. With a description of the position, soil, climate, constitution, government, etc., of the Province. The proceedings of the South Australian Company; and a variety of useful and authentic information, intended to point out the superior advantages of this settlement to the intending emigrant. Accompanied by a view of Rapid Bay and a map of the Province (Sold by W. Watling, 1837), by Henry Capper, William Light, and South Australian Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the speeches delivered at a dinner given to Capt. John Hindmarsh, R.N., on his appointment as Governor of South Australia, to which is appended An answer to an article in the forth-fifth number of the Westminster review (Public Library of South Australia, 1962), by Charles Mann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• South Australian facsimile editions (Adelaide,), by Public Library of South Australia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Archives Department of South Australia : public library, museum, and art gallery of South Australia (G. Hassell & Son, 1920), by G. C. Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc. (R. S. Brain, 1898), by Museums Public Library and Thomas Francis Bride (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the colony of Victoria : historical, geographical, meteorological, and statistical : (Victorian year book) (M'Carron, Bird & Co. ;, 1876), by Henry Heylyn Hayter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annals of Bendigo (1851-1920) (Mackay, 1912), by George Mackay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Employment of convict labor (J. Ferres, Govt. Printer, 1857), by Victoria. Chief Secretary's Department and Victoria Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)

• Employment of convict labor (J. Ferres, Govt. Printer, 1857), by Victoria. Chief Secretary's Department and Victoria Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)

• Employment of convict labor (J. Ferres, Govt. Printer, 1857), by Victoria. Chief Secretary's Department and Victoria Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)

• Correspondence concerning the great Melbourne telescope : in three parts, 1852-1870. (Taylor and Francis, 1871), by Royal Society (Great Britain). Southern Telescope Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pure merinos and others : the "shipping lists" of the Australian Agricultural Company (Australian National University, Archives of Business and Labour :, 1986), by P. A. Pemberton and Australian Agricultural Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Official Record of the Proceedings and Debates of the Australasian Federation Conference, Melbourne, 1890 (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)

• Pure merinos and others : the "shipping lists" of the Australian Agricultural Company (Australian National University, Archives of Business and Labour :, 1986), by P. A. Pemberton and Australian Agricultural Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pure merinos and others : the "shipping lists" of the Australian Agricultural Company (Australian National University, Archives of Business and Labour :, 1986), by P. A. Pemberton and Australian Agricultural Company (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Australian Achievement: From Bondage to Freedom (1996), by L. J. M. Cooray (HTML at ourcivilisation.com)
• Passionate Histories: Myth, Memory and Indigenous Australia (2010), ed. by Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys, and John Docker (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• A Short History of Australia, by Ernest Scott (text in Australia)
• The land of the kangaroo and the boomerang ... Giving a true history of the discovery, settlement and wonderful growth of the Australian colonies ... (Hurst & co., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire du royaume mérovingien d'Austrasie (Durand, 1862), by Alexandre Huguenin (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Australia (Chapman and Hall, 1883), by George William Rusden (page images at HathiTrust)
• A national history of Australia, New Zealand & the adjacent islands form their discovery to the centennial era and from the period to the present day (G. Routledge and son, ltd.;, 1917), by Robert P. Thomson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The making of Australasia : a brief history of the origin and development of the British dominions in the South Pacific (A. & C. Black, ltd., 1922), by Thomas Dunbabin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The colonization of Australia (1829-42); the Wakefield experiment in empire building (Sidgwick & Jackson ltd., 1915), by Richard Charles Mills and Edward Gibbon Wakefield (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Australie; découverte--colonisation--civilisation (A. Mame et cie, 1855), by J.-J.-E. Roy (page images at HathiTrust)
• First twenty years of Australia. A history founded on official documents. (S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington;, 1882), by James Bonwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Australia. (Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1897), by George William Rusden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The centennial supplement to the Sydney morning herald, together with reports of the principal events in connection with the celebration of the centenary of Australian settlement. (Printed for J. Fairfax and sons, Gibbs, Shallard, and co., printers, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of Australia (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1925), by Ernest Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Australian bushranging. (Angus, 1900), by Charles White (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Australasia, from the earliest times to the present day (Angus and Robertson ltd., 1911), by Arthur W. Jose (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new nation; a sketch of the social, political, and economic conditions and prospects of the Australian commonwealth (Smith, Elder & co., 1903), by Percy Fritz Rowland (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Australia (Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1897), by George William Rusden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Australia and New Zealand from 1606 to 1890 (Longmans, Green and co.; [etc., etc.], 1894), by Alexander Sutherland and George Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of Australia (H. Milford :, 1918), by Ernest Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Australasia : from the earliest times to the present day, with a chapter on Australian literature (Angus and Robertson, 1913), by Arthur W. Jose (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new world of the South (Smith, Elder, 1913), by W. H. Fitchett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The trooper police of Australia; a record of mounted police work in the commonwealth from the earliest days of settlement to the present time (A. Melrose, 1911), by A. L. Haydon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Australia (Chapman and Hall, limited; [etc.,etc.], 1883), by George William Rusden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australia during the war. (Angus, 1936), by Ernest Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old tales of a young country (Mason, Firth & M'Cutcheon, 1871), by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments of the early history of Australia, 1788 to 1812 (W. & J. Barr, 1913), by John McMahon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australian dictionary of dates and men of the time: containing the history of Australasia from 1542 to May, 1879 (G. Robertson, 1879), by John Henniker 1848- Heaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moreton Bay settlement; or, Queensland before separation, 1770-1859, together with a brief account of the rise of the colonies of Australasia (Watson, Ferguson & Co., Limited, 1925), by W. W. Craig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great jubilee book : the story of the Australian nation in pictures. (Colorgravure Publications,), by Jules Feldmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Australian peace movement : a short history (Peace Research Centre, Australian National University, 1986), by Malcolm Saunders and Ralph Summy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The trooper police of Australia; a record of mounted police work in the commonwealth from the earliest days of settlement to the present time (A. C. McClurg & co.; [etc., etc., 1912), by A. L. Haydon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonization of Australia (Sidgwick & Jackson ltd., 1915), by Richard Charles Mills (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reminiscences of Detective-Inspector Christie (George Robertson, 1910), by J. B. Castieau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opals and agates : or, Scenes under the Southern Cross and the Magelhans : being memoirs of fifty years of Australia and Polynesia : with nine illustrations (Gordon and Gotch, 1892), by Nehemiah Bartley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Australasia : from the first dawn of discovery in the Southern ocean to the establishment of self-government in the various colonies, comprising the settlement and history of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, together with some account of Fiji and New Guinea (McGready, Thompson & Niven, 1878), by David Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• An emigrant's home letters (Angus & Robertson, 1896), by Henry Parkes and Annie T. Parkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australien in der Gegenwart nach seiner historischen Entwicklung und Beschaffenheit, seinen Einwohnern und Produkten, seinen socialen, commerciellen und statistischen Verhältnissen (Hallberger'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1856), by Karl Büchele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les squatters australiens (Hachette, 1861), by Hubert De Castella (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new world of the South ... (J. Murray, 1917), by W. H. Fitchett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Curious facts of old colonial days. (Sampson Low, son & Marston, 1870), by James Bonwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australasia : the Britains of the South (Cassell, 1903), by Philip Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the continent of Australia and the island of Tasmania (1787 to 1870) : for the use of schools (F.F. Bailliere, 1877), by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australia and its gold fields : A historical sketch of the progress of the Australian colonies, from the earliest times to the present day; with a particular account of the recent gold discoveries, and observations on the present aspect of the land question. (H. Ingram and Co., Milford House, Strand, 1855), by Edward Hammond Hargraves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australia : its rise, progress, and present condition (Adam and Charles Black, 1861), by William Westgarth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Australia and New Zealand from 1606 to 1901 (Longmans, Green, and Co.; [etc., etc.], 1901), by Alexander Sutherland and George Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of Australia in the early days. (Hutchinson & Co., 1897), by Marcus Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australian sketches: The gold discovery, Bush graves, &c., &c. (S. Low, 1861), by Thomas M'Combie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to Guy (Macmillan, 1885), by Lady Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of Australian bushranging (C. & G.S. White, 1890), by Charles White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical records of New South Wales. (C. Potter [etc.]., 1893), by Frank Murcott Bladen and New South Wales (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of Australia (H. Milford, 1918), by Ernest Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Australia from 1606 to 1888 (Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, 1892), by Alexander Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust)
• A centennial supplement: [The origin and progress of Australian settlement] (Printed for J. Fairfax [by] Gibbs, Shallard., 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of Australia (H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1916), by Ernest Scott and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sea story of Australia (Chapman and Hall, 1899), by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffrey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Australiana facsimile editions (Adelaide, Public Library of South Australia, 1962), by Libraries Board of South Australia and Public Library of South Australia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Official record of the Debates ... (Govt. Printer, 1897), by Australasian Federal Convention, Victoria (Aus.), South Australia, and New South Wales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australia's greatest need. (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1914), by J. W. S. Tomlin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The land of the kangaroo and the boomerang: including dashing acts of bravery in pursuit of strange wild animals and wilder forest ruffians and escaped convicts in the blue gum forests and giant ferns : Also giving a true history of the discovery, settlement and wonderful growth of the Australian colonies ... (Hurst, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new world of the South ... (C. Scribner's sons, 1913), by W. H. Fitchett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The making of Australia : an introductory history. (Whitcombe and Tombs, 1900), by Walter Murdoch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The new world of the South ... (C. Scribner's Sons, 1913), by W. H. Fitchett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australian byways the narrative of a sentimental traveler (Harper, 1915), by Norman Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australia the making of a nation (Cassell, 1910), by John Foster Fraser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Australasia, the Commonwealth, and New Zealand (G.N. Morang, 1901), by Arthur W. Jose (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early federation movement of Australia (Press of the British Whig Pub. Co., 1907), by Cephas D. Allin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The progress of Australasia in the nineteenth century (Linscott, 1903), by T. A. Coghlan and T. T. Ewing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short history of Australia (H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1916), by Ernest Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alphabetic or syllabic characters in caves on the Glenelg River, N. W. Australia (W.A. Gullick, 1899), by John Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Australia, from 1787 to 1882. (Mason, Firth & M'Cutcheon, 1882), by James Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Australasia from the earliest times to the present day, with a chapter on Australian literature (Angus and Robertson, 1921), by Arthur W. Jose (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Australie, description du pays: colons et natifs, gouvernement, institutions, productions, travaux publics, mines. Avec une carte politique et géologique. (J. Rothschild, 1885), by Ferdinand Journet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australian commonwealth; New South Wales, Tasmania,Victoria,Western Australia,South Australia,Queensland,New Zealand. (T.F.Unwin, 1893), by Greville Tregarthen (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Australasia from the earliest times to the present day, with a chapter on Australian literature (Angus and Robertson, 1922), by Arthur W. Jose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pamphlets on Australia. ([publisher not identified], 1850), by John Dunmore Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new world of the south (Smith, Elder & Co., 1916), by W. H. Fitchett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Australian dictionary of dates and men of the time: containing the history of Australasia from 1542 to date. (S.W. Silver & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1879), by J. Henniker Heaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of Australia (Horace Marshall & Son, 1911), by Thomas Bateson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Australasia, from the earliest times to the present day, with a chapter on Australian literature (Angus and Robertson ltd., 1918), by Arthur W. Jose (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aborigines of Australia, by Richard Sadleir (Gutenberg ebook)
• Peeps At Many Lands: Australia, by Frank Fox, illust. by Percy F. S. Spence (Gutenberg ebook)
• History of Australia and New Zealand from 1606 to 1890, by Alexander Sutherland and George Sutherland (Gutenberg ebook)

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