References and Resources
General published and unpublished papers relevant to native title anthropology
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 | 2025-Lawyers-and-anthropologists-working-together-effectively.pdf
2025-Lawyers-and-anthropologists-working-together-effectively.pdf Open | Download | 18 June 2025 |
| 2002-Rapid-Ethnographic-Assessment-in-Urban-Parks.pdf
2002-Rapid-Ethnographic-Assessment-in-Urban-Parks.pdf Open | Download | 30 April 2025 |
| 2020-Focused-Ethnography.pdf Open | Download | 30 April 2025 |
| 2020-Rapid-Ethnographic-Assessments-A-Practical-Approach-and-Toolkit-For-Collaborative-Community-Research.pdf Open | Download | 30 April 2025 |
| 2013-Short-Term-Ethnography.pdf
2013-Short-Term-Ethnography.pdf Open | Download | 30 April 2025 |
| 2000-Rapid-Ethnography.pdf Open | Download | 30 April 2025 |
| 2002-Anthropological-Ethnographic-Methods-for-the-Assessment-of-Cultural-Values-in-Heritage-Conservation.pdf Open | Download | 30 April 2025 |
| 2013-Guidance-on-Performing-Focused-Ethnographies-with-an-Emphasis-on-Healthcare-Research.pdf
2013-Guidance-on-Performing-Focused-Ethnographies-with-an-Emphasis-on-Healthcare-Research.pdf Open | Download | 30 April 2025 |
| 2005-Focused-Ethnography.pdf Open | Download | 30 April 2025 |
| 2022-The-drive-and-talk-as-ethnographic-method.pdf
2022-The-drive-and-talk-as-ethnographic-method.pdf Open | Download | 30 April 2025 |
| 2015-Trigger-Change-and-succession.pdf
2015-Trigger-Change-and-succession.pdf Open | Download | 30 April 2025 |
| 2025-Land-claim-legacies-native-title-and-the-rigours-of-Indigenous-politics.pdf
2025-Land-claim-legacies-native-title-and-the-rigours-of-Indigenous-politics.pdf Open | Download | 30 April 2025 |
| 2015-Ancestry-and-rights-to-country-Trigger.pdf
2015-Ancestry-and-rights-to-country-Trigger.pdf Open | Download | 30 April 2025 |
| 2021-Native-title-funds-and-the-public-interest.pdf
2021-Native-title-funds-and-the-public-interest.pdf Open | Download | 22 January 2024 |
| 2021-Collaboration-and-native-title.pdf
2021-Collaboration-and-native-title.pdf Open | Download | 22 January 2024 |
| 2020-Culture-and-native-title-.pdf
2020-Culture-and-native-title-.pdf Open | Download | 22 January 2024 |
| 2019-Law-anthropology-and-policy-.pdf
2019-Law-anthropology-and-policy-.pdf Open | Download | 22 January 2024 |
| 2018-Innovation.pdf Open | Download | 22 January 2024 |
| 2018-Fiduciary-responsibility.pdf
2018-Fiduciary-responsibility.pdf Open | Download | 22 January 2024 |
| 2017-Understanding-traditional-land-tenure.pdf
2017-Understanding-traditional-land-tenure.pdf Open | Download | 22 January 2024 |
| 2017-Legal-culture-.pdf Open | Download | 22 January 2024 |
| 2017-Emerging-and-strategic-issues.pdf
2017-Emerging-and-strategic-issues.pdf Open | Download | 22 January 2024 |
| 2016-Future-of-native-title-anthropology.pdf
2016-Future-of-native-title-anthropology.pdf Open | Download | 22 January 2024 |
| 2016-Expert-evidence-and-anthropology.pdf
2016-Expert-evidence-and-anthropology.pdf Open | Download | 22 January 2024 |
| K-Keefe-AAS2021-presentation.pdf
K-Keefe-AAS2021-presentation.pdf Open | Download | 19 December 2021 |
| Mortimer-J_Re-evaluating-the-role-of-anthropologists-in-native-title-proceedings.pdf
Mortimer-J_Re-evaluating-the-role-of-anthropologists-in-native-title-proceedings.pdf Open | Download | 22 February 2021 |
| Rangiah_J_2016.pdf
Justice Rangiah, ‘Expert Anthropological Evidence- A Judges Perspective’ (Speech, Future of Native Tittle Anthropology Conference, 4 February 2016) • Importance of writing reports to specific audience with purpose in mind • Communication between lawyer and anthropologist • Agendas of all involved Open | Download | 22 February 2021 |
| Annotated_Bibliography_Customary_Marine.pdf
Annotated_Bibliography_Customary_Marine.pdf This annotated bibliography was developed by Adele Millard for CNTA. Its aim is to inform and guide future research for use in Native Title sea claims, particularly in southern Australia. Open | Download | 27 November 2020 |
| R-Blowes-NTN-article.pdf
This article, "Getting to native title – roles and important distinctions for anthropologists and advocates\" is by Robert Blowes SC. It was first published by LexisNexis in Native Title News Volume 12 No 8, December 2017. For more information about Native Title News and other LexisNexis subscription titles, please call 1800 772 772 or email customer.relations@lexisnexis.com.au. Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
| Susan-Phillips-Recognition-of-NT-revision-and-problem-solving.pdf
Susan-Phillips-Recognition-of-NT-revision-and-problem-solving.pdf Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
| Tom-Gara-Spanish-Flu-SA-Aboriginal-people.pdf
Tom-Gara-Spanish-Flu-SA-Aboriginal-people.pdf Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
| Francesca-Merlan-Paperlet-on-the-Non-Citizen-Non-Alien-Aborigine.pdf
Francesca-Merlan-Paperlet-on-the-Non-Citizen-Non-Alien-Aborigine.pdf Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
| Paul-Burke-Warlpiri-Diaspora-and-Native-Title.pdf
Paul-Burke-Warlpiri-Diaspora-and-Native-Title.pdf Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
| Nic-Peterson-2019-Law-anthropology-and-policy.pdf
Nic-Peterson-2019-Law-anthropology-and-policy.pdf Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
| Stephen-Wright-compensation-ppt.pdf
Stephen-Wright-compensation-ppt.pdf Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
| Nic-Peterson-2018-Innovation-and-native-title.pdf
Nic-Peterson-2018-Innovation-and-native-title.pdf Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
| Nic-Peterson-2017-comments-on-legal-culture.pdf
Nic-Peterson-2017-comments-on-legal-culture.pdf Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
| Watt-Kowal-Cummings-2020.pdf
"Traditional Laws Meet Emerging Biotechnologies: The Impact of Genetic Genealogy on Indigenous Land Title in Australia", Elizabeth Watt, Emma Kowal, and Carmen Cummings, Human Organization Vol 79 No. 2 Summer 2020. The increasing popularity and availability of genetic testing has the potential to play into debates surrounding Native Title. This paper highlights the importance of disseminating current information about genetic genealogy among Indigenous Australians and having frank conversations about the opportunities and limits of genetic technologies in this context. Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
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Materials relevant to Native Title Compensation
See also the pod and video casts on the Compensation tab of this site.
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| BRIEF-INDEX-OF-MATERIALS-RELATING-TO-NATIVE-TITLE-COMPENSATION-RESEARCH.pdf
BRIEF-INDEX-OF-MATERIALS-RELATING-TO-NATIVE-TITLE-COMPENSATION-RESEARCH.pdf This index includes both the documents below, and also some additional references Open | Download | 18 February 2021 |
| Section_51_53_NTA.pdf
Section 51&53 Criteria for determining compensation Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
| Northern-Territory-v-Mr-A_-Griffiths-deceased-and-Lorraine-Jones-on-behalf-of-the-Ngaliwurru-and-Nungali-Peoples-2019-HCA-7.pdf
Northern Territory v Mr A. Griffiths (deceased) and Lorraine Jones on behalf of the Ngaliwurru and Nungali Peoples [2019] HCA 7 Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
| Griffiths-v-Northern-Territory-No_3-2016-FCA-900.pdf
Griffiths-v-Northern-Territory-No_3-2016-FCA-900.pdf Open | Download | 28 October 2020 |
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Materials relevant to the design and management of PBCs/RNTBCs
See also pod and video casts on the PBCs and Trusts tab of this site.
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| Aurora-Fact-Sheet-PBC-decision-making.pdf
Aurora-Fact-Sheet-PBC-decision-making.pdf Open | Download | 22 February 2021 |
| PBC-governance-framework-issues.pdf
PBC-governance-framework-issues.pdf Open | Download | 22 February 2021 |
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Links to online resources
Anthropological associations in Australia
The Australian Anthropological Society represents the profession at the national level, but there is also the Anthropological Society of Western Australia and the Anthropological Society of South Australia.
Digital Archives:
In the Wiley Online site there is a lot of great material for researchers – tips on publishing for instance, but I draw your attention to the tab labelled ‘Researchers’ (where this portal opens a wealth of diverse material of interest).
In the Wiley digital archives of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, you will see two Collection Archives highlighted – material relating to the Aboriginal Protection Society, and an Ethnographic Photography Library.
Look and listen: online videos and public presentations
Native Title: implications for Australian senses of place
A presentation by Emeritus Professor David Trigger in the 2020 seminar series of the Anthropological Society of Western Australia Native Title: implications for Australian senses of place is now available on YouTube.
Future Forum 2020 – Visions on the future of Aboriginal heritage in Western Australia
This one-day forum was hosted by the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists (AACAI), the Anthropological Society of Western Australia (ASWA), and the Australia International Council on Monuments and Sites (A.ICOMOS) in Fremantle on Friday, 16 October 2020.
The forum brought together First Nations people, Traditional Owners and custodians, representative bodies, industry, consultants, researchers, politicians, Government representatives and other interested parties to explore and discuss what the future of Aboriginal heritage management could look like in Western Australia.
Video recordings for presentations from the Future Forum are available on a YouTube playlist.
New and Upcoming details of the following book
Julie Marcus has new book out, published by Wakefield Press! It can be ordered online.
The details are:
Sex and Savagery in the Good Colony. South Australia 1836-1901
Wakefield Press, Adelaide 2025
ISBN. 978 1 92304 228 5
Wakefield Press has a web page through which books can be ordered, a picture of the cover of Julie’s book, and details of the author.
Sex and Savagery in the Good Colony
South Australia 1836-1901
Sex and Savagery in the Good Colony: South Australia 1836-1901 is a wide-ranging look at the realities of British colonisation. It explores how violence undermined the best of colonial intentions and how, for those who suffered, the final indignity was having their experiences glossed over.
In this book, award-winning writer and anthropologist Julie Marcus explains how and why this happened, and why violence cast such long shadows over the lives of both victims and perpetrators. She uncovers the hidden injuries of sexual violence to show how it was used by colonists as a weapon of war.
Both experienced and new readers will benefit from this accessible yet essential historical account of our colonial past. Sex and Savagery in the Good Colony reveals that, in South Australia and the Northern Territory, the real heroes of the war were the women of the First Nations of Australia – and it is time they are honoured.
In stock: Paperback $49.95
New books and publications
Tim Pilbrow has published an article in The Australian Journal of Anthropology, crafted while he was a CNTA scholar and entitled The integrative value of conflict and dispute: Implications for defining community in the native title context. It can be downloaded from the Wiley site.
Michael Bennett, Mar 2020. The Pathfinders NSW — A History of NSW Aboriginal Trackers (Newsouth Publishing)
Geraldine Doogue interviewed historian Dr Michael Bennett, formerly of NTSCorp, on RN’s Saturday Extra (Saturday 7 March 2020) about this book. In New South Wales alone, more than a thousand Aboriginal men and a smaller number of women toiled for authorities across the state after 1862. Through his work on native title claims, historian Michael Bennett realised that the role of trackers – and how they moved between two worlds – has been largely unacknowledged. His important book reveals that their work grew out of traditional society and was sustained by the vast family networks that endure to this day. Pathfinders brings the skilled and diverse work of trackers not only to the forefront of law enforcement history but to the general shared histories of black and white Australia.
Georgia Curran, 2020. Sustaining Indigenous Songs: contemporary Warlpiri ceremonial life in central Australia (Berghahn)
From the back cover: ‘As an ethnography of Central Australian singing traditions and ceremonial contexts, this book asks questions about the vitality of the cultural knowledge and practices highly valued by Warlpiri people and fundamental to their cultural heritage. Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this region, the book lays out the features of Warlpiri songs and ceremonies, and centres on a focal case study of the Warlpiri Kurdiji ceremony to illustrate the modes in which core cultural themes are being passed on through song to future generations.’
Interview with Dr James Rose of the University of Melbourne
In this interview, I discussed the importance of oral histories and geospatial data in our research project. We also collaborated with another colleague to gather archival information to support our findings. Luckily, in Southeast Australia, we had access to a wealth of archival ethnographic data, which was a luxury for our research. We meticulously organized all the collected data into a relational database, using unique codes to track any changes in names or spellings. This level of research capacity was not common, but it received positive responses when presented at conferences. The host mentioned a similar process in South Australia and how time-consuming it can be.
I explained that we made a decision to prioritize this research by utilizing our internal staff, which allowed for more flexibility and dedication to the project. We then discussed the Gamilaraay case, which went to trial, and the overwhelming evidence we presented regarding the living cultural practices of Indigenous populations. In smaller communities, oral evidence holds more weight, and formal models are not as crucial to meet the necessary threshold for recognition.