Indigenous Settlements of Australia

This paper provides a national overview of the parallel settlement system which exists across Indigenous Australia. Its aim is to provide a context for the physical planning of Indigenous settlements, one that is cognisant of the range of culturally distinct factors that contribute to the unique character of such settlements. The methodology includes an analysis of census data and a review of existing literature with support from examples.

Exploring ‘Aboriginal’ sites in Sydney: a shifting politics of place?

This essay was written by Melinda Hinknkson with the aim of addressing the issues that arose in the context of the research that were not canvassed in the authors other work, Aboriginal Sydney. The book was a guide to fifty places in the greater Sydney region designed to be used as a straightforward guidebook as well as a selective and short social history of Sydney. It aims to address what exactly was being produced in this process of uncovering Aboriginal history in Sydney while exploring what kinds of representations of Aboriginality were emerging. It further explores the idea that these representations differed from those identified and analysed in relation to Sydney’s Aboriginal sites in the past.