Aboriginal Australian — General

A comprehensive guide to undertaking Indigenous family history research throughout Australia. Includes an online request form as well as links to organisations such as Link-Up, which assists in family tracing and reunion of Indigenous people who were removed.

Australian Museum website looking at indigenous peoples long association with the Habour and looks at the wildlife and natural environment. Includes placenames, clans ,language and foods.

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies holds computer-based information about Australia's Indigenous languages in the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive. The Archive is available to language community members and to researchers in the field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. This page describes material held by ASEDA.

Full text of Board annual reports from 1884 - 1956.

These protocols are intended to guide libraries, archives and information services in appropriate ways to interact with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the communities, and handle material with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander content.

This site provides information on the history of the Australian Aboriginal flag.

Part of the WWW Virtual Library Project, this site has links to resources for about 50 of the more than 200 Australian Aboriginal languages. These are grouped by state, language name, and type of resource, such as dictionaries, courses and other categories.

The select list of 150 items provides a readily accessible compilation of some significant microfilmed records (mainly manuscript) concerning the Australian Aboriginal peoples.

A guide to evaluated websites for Aboriginal studies, maintained in conjunction with the Center For World Indigenous Studies' Indigenous Studies WWW Virtual Library.

A collection of texts about Aboriginal spirituality, myths and legends. Because this site only provides texts in the public domain, the texts about Australian Aboriginal religion are mainly historical (nineteenth and early twentieth century) texts by white Australians. Part of the Internet Sacred Text Archive.

The Australian Indigenous Index or INFOKOORI is a State Library of NSW index to the Koori Mail: the fortnightly national indigenous newspaper, published in Lismore, NSW, since May 1991, that focuses on the Indigenous people of Australia.

INFOKOORI is also an index to biographical information from other periodicals held by the NSW State Library besides the Koori Mail including: Our aim : a monthly record of the Aborigines' Inland Mission of Australia. (1907–1961), Dawn : a magazine for the Aboriginal people of N.S.W. (1952–1969), New Dawn (1970–1975) and Identity: Aboriginal Publications Foundation (1971–1982).

You can access Dawn and New Dawn, for full-text online versions of these 2 periodicals. Published by the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board, they contain family history information such as births, deaths, and marriages, as well as hundreds of photographs. They also contain articles about conditions and activities on reserves, stations, homes and schools in NSW.

Historical information about Aboriginal people and communities is also being added from other newspapers published in NSW that are held by the NSW State Library, such as the Armidale Express, the Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent, the Australian Evangel , Today, the Daily Examiner (Grafton) and the North-western Watchman (Coonabarabran).

AIATSIS Library is Australia's major information resource collection on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander topics.

The Indigenous history of Sydney City. Contains a thematic introduction, biographies, useful contacts, and references to books, films, images and websites.

A national Indigenous business and community enterprise directory. As well as providing a comprehensive national listing of Indigenous businesses, community enterprises and services, Black Pages aims to be a central communication portal to promote Australia's Indigenous culture and facilitate community and socio-economic development. Links to Government and other information relating to Indigenous affairs are listed in the 'Smart links section.

This site contains the Report of the national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families.

The history of the Aboriginal people of inner-western Sydney.

This site provides information on the Council, the People's Movement for Reconciliation, the Australian Reconciliation Convention, a calendar of events and a list of current publications.

Dawn and New dawn magazines were published between 1952 and 1975 by the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board. They include family history information such as births, deaths, and marriages, as well as hundreds of photographs. They also contain articles about conditions and activities on reserves, stations, homes and schools in NSW. The full text of Dawn and New dawn are available at this site. Biographical information on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Dawn, New dawn and other magazines is also indexed by the INFOKOORI Database.

ENIAR aims to promote awareness on Indigenous issues and to provide information for Indigenous Australians about Europe and international organisations.

Informit is the leading provider of online access to indexes and full text databases of Australasian scholarly research. A product of RMIT Publishing, databases can be divided into the following major subject areas: Agriculture, Arts, Asian, Business, Education, Engineering, Health, History, Indigenous, Law, Media, Reference, Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.

This site provides information on what native title is and what the Tribunal does, media releases, information on how to apply, official guidelines and a time line of native title applications for all regions of Australia.

Information on how to access the records of the Aborigines Protection Board, later renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board. The time period covered is 1833-1969. The Board's records include details of children removed as well as detailed information on all aspects of life on stations and reserves, such as financial statements, salary and employment details, tenancy agreements and applications to leave the reserve. The site also includes contact details for help with Indigenous family research.

The papers of Edward Koiki Mabo are held in the National Library of Australia. This site provides a biographical note, series list, series descriptions, box list and selected Mabo images of the papers held.

The library includes significant documents concerning reconciliation and social justice, most of which are not otherwise available via the Internet. This site provides a searchable full-text database of the library's holdings.

This site provides stories from the cultures of Indigenous Australians and have been collected from all over Australia. The stories are available in video, audio and text-only formats.

This site provides information on the history of the Torres Strait Islander flag.

This site provides information on Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander music, sport, entertainment and lifestyle. It contains profiles of Indigenous music and sport stars and community identities. The site has a strong health focus as well as providing up to date Indigenous job vacancy listings, further education course guides, a national events guide, radio station directory and school based story writing competitions.