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Academic Staff

Current Projects

1. The Sydney Harbour Trust project on a book about the History of Sydney harbour. Three authors are involved. I am engaged in producing a section providing an Indigenous perspective, in 5,000 words, on the pre-, post and contemporary non-indigenous occupation and use of Sydney harbour and the Harbour Trusts' properties in Port Jackson; Tim Flannery is to do the paleontology perspective, and; Geoffrey Blainey is to do the European occupation perspective.

2. I am currently engaged in preparing the 'Native Census, 1920-44', for placement on the ANU data set. This was an original proposal from my previous ARC grant research proposal. I am also working on a new project that continues the Indigenous population study (ie, Indigenous health and demographic transition) from 1945 to the first census in 1971 after the 1967 referendum which gave the Commonwealth powers to include Aborigines in the Australian Census.

3. Aborigines Between The Wars: 1920-1944

Counting, Health and Identity
A history of Aboriginal health and demography
in Western Australia and Queensland 1900-1940

Published: 2003 - Aboriginal Studies Press for the
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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The Aboriginal Population Revisited. 70,000 years to the present
Edited by Gordon Briscoe and Len Smith
Aboriginal History Monograph 10