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• 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)

• Annual report. (Brisbane., between 1000 and 1999), by Queensland. Aboriginal's Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Among cannibals : account of four years travels in Australia, and of camp life with the Aborigines of Queensland. (Australian National University Press, 1980), by Carl Lumholtz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and adventures of William Buckley : thirty-two years a wanderer amongst the Aborigines of the unexplored country round Port Phillip (Australian National University Press, 1980), by John Morgan and Edmund Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Invasion and resistance : Aboriginal-European relations on the North Queensland frontier, 1861-1897 (Australian National University Press, 1982), by Noel Loos (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrative of James Murrells' ("Jemmy Morrill") seventeen years' exile among the wild blacks of North Queensland, and his life and shipwreck and terrible adventures among savage tribes; their manners, customs, languages, and superstitions; also Murrells' rescue and return to civilization. (Printed by E. Gregory, 1896), by Edmund Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrative of James Murrells' ("Jemmy Morrill") seventeen years' exile among the wild blacks of North Queensland, and his life and shipwreck and terrible adventures among savage tribes; their manners, customs, languages, and superstitions; also Murrells' rescue and return to civilization. (Printed by E. Gregory, 1896), by Edmund Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrative of James Murrells' ("Jemmy Morrill") seventeen years' exile among the wild blacks of North Queensland, and his life and shipwreck and terrible adventures among savage tribes; their manners, customs, languages, and superstitions; also Murrells' rescue and return to civilization. (Printed by E. Gregory, 1896), by Edmund Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life With the Aborigines of Queensland, by Carl Lumholtz, trans. by Rasmus Björn Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Blacks and Bushrangers: Adventures in Queensland, by E. B. Kennedy, illust. by Stanley Berkeley (Gutenberg ebook)

• Early man in North Queensland : art and archaeology in the Laura area (Dept. of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1981), by Andrée Rosenfeld, John Winter, David Horton, and Australian National University (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coastal themes : an archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland (ANU E Press, 2006), by Sean Ulm (page images at HathiTrust)

• Innamincka talk : a grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2004), by Gavan Breen and Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Duun̳idjawu language of the southeast Queensland : grammar, texts and vocabulary (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2004), by Suzanne Kite, S. A. Wurm, and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes on some Queensland languages (Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Dept. of Linguistics, 1988), by Nils Magnus Holmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salvage studies of western Queensland aboriginal languages (Dept. of Lnguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1990), by Gavan Breen and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific Studies. Dept. of Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837) (Watson, Ferguson & Co., 1904), by Constance Campbell Petrie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• The Native Tribes of Central Australia (London: Macmillan and Co., 1899), by Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• 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
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• The Northern Tribes of Central Australia (London and New York: Macmillan, 1904), by Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
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  • 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)

• Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War (Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1987), by Robert A. Hall and Australian National University. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (page images at HathiTrust)

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