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• Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care -- Australia -- South Australia
• Australia -- Biography
• South Australia -- Biography

• Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family (2010), by Gordon Briscoe (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

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• "True Biographies of Nations?" The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography (Acton, ACT: ANU Press, 2019), ed. by Karen Fox (multiple formats with commentary at ANU Press)
• Glimpses of the Australian Colonies and New Zealand (Auckland: Brett Printing and Pub. Co., 1903), by W. J. Barry (page images in New Zealand)
• Builders and pioneers of Australia (J. M. Dent & sons ltd., 1928), by Arthur W. Jose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in Australia. (The Herald [etc.], 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories of Australia in the early days. (Hutchinson & Co., 1897), by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old convict days (T. F. Unwin, 1899), by William Derricourt and Louis Becke (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)
• Fifty years of progress in Australia, 1878-1928 (Halstead printing co. ltd., 1929), by Aidan De Brune (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fred Johns's annual for 1913 : showing Who is who in Australasia. (F. Johns, 1913), by Fred Johns (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Past & present, and men of the times : with portrait of the author and other illustrations (McKee & Gamble, 1897), by William Jackson Barry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Australian portrait gallery and memoirs of representative colonial men. (Southern Cross Pub., 1885), by S. T. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of the Australian colonies and New Zealand : a thrilling narrative of the early days, embodying the life-history of Captain William Jackson Barry who arrived in New South Wales in 1829 (Brett Print. and Pub. Co., 1903), by William Jackson Barry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Who's who in the commonwealth of Australia ... (Angus, 1922), by Fred Johns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in Australasia (Adelaide., 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johns's notable Australians and Who is who in Australasia; a dictionary of biography containing records of the careers of men and women of distinction in the commonwealth of Australia and the dominion of New Zealand. (F. Johns, 1908), by Fred Johns (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notable Australians. (George Robertson, 1906), by Fred Johns (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Australia's heroes : being a slight sketch of the most prominent amongst the band of gallant men who devoted their lives and energies to the cause of science and the development of the fifth continent (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1880), by Charles H. Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Australia : containing 70 years of his own knowledge and 35 years of his ancestors (G. Robertson, 1894), by James T. Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australasians who count in London, and who counts in Western Australia (Truscott, 1913), by Leonard W. Matters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ten Journeys to Cameron’s Farm: An Australian Tragedy (Canberra: ANU Press, 2013), by Cameron. Hazlehurst (JSTOR ebook)
• Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World (Canberra: ANU Press, 2008), ed. by Desley Deacon, Angela Woollacott, and Penny Russell (JSTOR ebook)

• Australian Dictionary of Biography (online edition) (HTML in Australia)
• Fred Johns's annual, mainly a biographical record of Australasia's prominent people (incorporating Who is who in Australasia) (Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd., 1914), by Fred Johns and Who is who in Australasia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Australian dictionary of dates and men of the time containing the history of Australasia from 1542 to May, 1879 (G. Robertson, 1879), by J. H. Heaton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The ADB’s Story (Canberra: ANU Press, 2013), ed. by Christine Fernon and Melanie Nolan (JSTOR ebook)

• Reminiscences of an Australian pioneer (Tyrrell, 1917), by Robert D. Barton (page images at HathiTrust)

• My wife and I in Queensland : an eight years' experience in the above colony : with some account of Polynesian labor (Longmans, Green, 1872), by Charles H. Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aldine history of Queensland ... embracing sketches and portraits of her noted people; the rise and progress of her varied enterprises; and illustrations of her boundless wealth, together with maps of latest survey. (Aldine Publishing Co., 1888), by W. Frederic Morrison (page images at HathiTrust)

• Founders & pioneers of South Australia; life studies of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Charles Sturt, George Fife Angas, Sir John Hindmarsh, William Light, George Gawler, David McLaren, Augustus Kavel, and Francis Cadell. (F.W. Preece, 1929), by A. Grenfell Price (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cyclopedia of South Australia ... An historical and commercial review. Descriptive and biographical, facts, figures, and illustrations. An epitome of progress. (The Cyclopedia Co. (A.G. Selway), 1907), by Henry Thomas Burgess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Adelaide and vicinity with a general sketch of the province of South Australia and biographies of representative men (Austraprint, 1972), by J. J. Pascoe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The representative men of South Australia. (G. Howell, 1883), by George E. Loyau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notable South Australians; or, Colonists, past and present. (Carey, Page & Co., Printers, 1885), by George E. Loyau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The representative men of South Australia (Austaprint, 1978), by George E. Loyau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The cyclopedia of Victoria (illustrated) : an historical and commercial review, descriptive and biographical, facts, figures and illustrations : an epitome of progress (Cyclopedia Co., 1903), by James Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the Bar of Victoria : from its foundation to the amalgamation of the two branches of the legal profession, 1839-1891 : historical, personal, humorous (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1891), by John Leonard Forde (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Settler's 35 Years' Experience in Victoria, Australia: And how £6 8s. became £8,000, by E. Hulme (Gutenberg ebook)

• Australasians who count in London, and who counts in Western Australia (Truscott, 1913), by Leonard W. Matters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family (2010), by Gordon Briscoe (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• My life's story (J. Sands, 1923), by Nellie Stewart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Maverick Mathematician: The Life and Science of J.E. Moyal (Canberra: ANU Press, 2006), by Ann Moyal (JSTOR ebook)

• Scholars at War: Australasian Social Scientists, 1939-1945 (Canberra: ANU Press, 2012), ed. by Christine Winter, Doug Munro, and Geoffrey Gray (JSTOR ebook)

• Australian Department Heads Under Howard: Career Paths and Practice: Collected Articles from The Canberra Times (Canberra: ANU Press, 2006), by Paul Malone (JSTOR ebook)
• The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins: Australian Government Administration in the Post-War Reconstruction Era (Canberra: ANU Press, 2015), ed. by Samuel Furphy (JSTOR ebook)

• Those were the days; being reminiscences of Australian artists and writers. (Tyrrell, 1918), by George A. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Greek voices in Australia : a tradition of prose, poetry and drama (Australian National University Press, 1987), by Geōrgios Euangelou Kanarakēs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Clio’s Lives: Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians (Canberra: ANU Press, 2017), ed. by Doug Munro and John G. Reid (JSTOR ebook)

• Forty years in the wilderness (Banks, 1876), by John Bunyan McCure (page images at HathiTrust)

• The patrician and the bloke : Geoffrey Serle and the making of Australian history (Pandanus, 2006), by John Thompson and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (page images at HathiTrust)

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