Areas of Research: Gender and Colonialism; Australian indigenous history; Comparative and trans-national history of frontiers in Australia and North America; Birth, Marriage and intermarriage; Law, Justice and History; Museums, Museology and Public History; Art and Visual Evidence in History.
Major Publications:
* Curthoys, A., McGrath, A. eds
Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration, Monash Publications in History, Melbourne, 2000
* McGrath, A., Huggins, J., Saunders, K., eds.,
Aboriginal Workers, special edition of Labour History, November 1995
* McGrath, A., editor, Contested Ground: A History of Australian Aborigines under the British Crown, Allen & Unwin, Sydney,1995
* McGrath, A. (with Pat Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Marian Quartly)
Creating a Nation, McPhee Gribble/Penguin, Melbourne, 1994 .
* McGrath, A. "Born in the Cattle': Aborigines in Cattle Country, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1987
Official/Policy reports:
(i) Stolen Children Litigation
Historical Report for Stolen Children Litigation, Gunner and Cubillo v Commonwealth, August 1999; appeared as expert witness September 1999.
(ii) Human Rights Commission
‘The History of Pastoral Co-existence’ in Annual Report of Human Rights Commission –Aboriginal Social Justice Commissioner, by Mick Dodson, AGPS, Canberra, 1997.
(iii) Submissions used as formal exhibits before the Aboriginal Land Commissioner, Commonwealth of Australia hearings.
McGrath, A. and Coltheart, L. 1983
"Intruders, Work and Land", in P. Sutton, L. Coltheart and A. McGrath, The Murranji Land Claim, Northern Land Council, Darwin.
McGrath, A. 1983 Aborigines and Colonialism in the Upper Daly Basin Region, Northern Land Council, Darwin
McGrath, A. 1986 A Meeting Place: Historical Submission for the Mataranka Land Claim, Northern Land Council, Darwin.
(iv) Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
1991 'The Legacy of History', edited version in Commissioner E. Johnston, The National Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Canberra, Underlying Issues, vol 2, ch 2. (44p, 18,000wds)
