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ASP titles no longer in print (all genres of writing), some of which are now e-books.
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The 1967 Referendum, or when Aborigines didn’t get the vote, 1st Ed Explores the legal and political significance of the referendum and the long struggle by black and white Australians for constitutional change. |
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An Aboriginal Village in South Australia: A Snapshot of Davenport The subjects covered include patterns of income and expenditure, household composition and residential mobility, education and training, health problems, leisure activities and attitudes towards the participation of non-Aboriginal Australians in various domains of community life. |
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All Free Man Now: Culture, community and politics in the Kimberley region, north-western Australia 'Only by the modernisation of Aboriginal culture can effective de-colonisation of Aborigines proceed.' Some might find this fourth-last sentence in Sullivan's impressive essay a strangely self-contradictory proposition. |
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Australian Aboriginal Paintings in Western and Central Arnhem Land This book documents and explains the Mimi, X-ray, and silhouette art styles, particularly of the Alligator Rivers region. It discusses the paintings, and techniques and materials used, and explores the role of these paintings in traditional life. |
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Bunji: A story of the Gwalwa Daraniki Movement A story of the land rights battle of the Larrakia people for Kulaluk, near Darwin, in the 1970s, as seen through the eyes of Bill Day, founder and editor of Bunji, a local black rights newsletter of the time. |
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Frontiers: Discourses of development in Tennant Creek A study of the situation in Tennant Creek between 1987 and 1989; also a study of the development of different and competing forms of representation and social, economic and political context out of which they have arisen. |
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A Gumbaynggir Language Dictionary Gumbaynggir covers several dialects in an area of the Mid-North coast NSW, between Nambucca in the South and around Mid-Clarence in the North. |
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Gurig National Park: The first ten years of joint management Gurig National Park on the Cobourg Peninsula in the Northern Territory is a stunningly beautiful area of gently undulating land, open eucalypt forest, white sands, sparkling waters and abundant wild life. |
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Growing up Walgett: Young members of the Walgett Aboriginal Community speak out Some of the young Aboriginal people of Walgett have put down their views about their town, their lives, recreation, schooling and what the future holds for them. |
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Karrayili: Adult education in a remote Australian community Tells the story of the Karrayili Adult Education Centre from its early days to the present and the challenge of meeting the educational needs of a group of people who lived a fourth world existence in one of the world's richest economies. |
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Land of Promises: Aborigines and development in the East Kimberly Reports the East Kimberley Impact Assessment Project conducted between 1985 and 1988 in response to requests from local Aboriginal communities for assistance in dealing with economic and social change arising from resource development. |
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Nyibayarri:
Kimberley Tracker
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People of the Rivermouth: The Joborr texts of Frank Gurrmanamana People of the Rivermouth is arguably the most comprehensive work ever produced on a single Australian Aboriginal group. |
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The Shape of Dreaming: The cultural significance of Victoria River Rock Art This report analysees the social and cultural significance of rock art to Aboriginal people in the Victora River District. |
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The Sun Dancin’: People and place in Coonabarabran This is a story of four women's stories and many others,the people of Burrabeedee, the land and its layers of meaning. |
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The story of the Falling Star This story is so old we don't even know how old it is... Malkarra was a special kind of person... he told the Paakantji people something bad was going to happen... they didn't trust him... if only they had listened to Malkarra they would've been gone when the star fell... Elsie Jones |
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Take this Child: From Kahlin Compound to the Retta Dixon Children’s home Take this Child provides an account of the institutionalisation of ‘part-Aboriginal’ people in the Northern Territory from the early 1900s to the 1980s. |
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They Get Heaps: A study of attitudes in Roebourne, Western Australia Examines how today's attitudes are formed, maintained, and reproduced within the context of continuing inequality. |
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Travelling with Percy: A South Coast journey A collection of oral histories and photos honours the memory of a much-loved elder of the Aboriginal people of southeastern Australia. |
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Uluru: An Aboriginal history of Ayers Rock The Yankuntjatjara and Pitjantjatjara people see Uluru as a major centre of the dreaming tracks which criss-cross Central Australia. |
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The Wizard of the Wire: The story of Con Colleano Throughout the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s, Colleano was one of a handful top-ranking, very highly paid circus and vaudeville artists of England, America and Europe, yet he was largely unheard of in his own country. |
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Wreck Bay: An Aboriginal fishing community A short history of the Bherwerre Peninsula and explains land rights claims being made by Aborigines living in the area. |