Tasmanian Aboriginal History, Australian Aboriginal Autobiography, and Australian Aboriginal History.

Colonial Tasmania and embrace Aboriginal History, Histories of Place, and Environmental History. Shayne has also lately developed a major interest in the practice of Family History.

Books:

Colonial Encounters: place, power & social law from Aboriginal times to 1900, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, (Hobart), in press, due 1999. (80,000 words).

Articles:

Nature, Culture & Sense of Place in Tasmania's Northern Districts: integrating social and environmental history, solicited by The Public Historian, (University of California Press) currently undergoing peer review.

'Human Agency, Historical Inevitability & Moral Culpability: rewriting black-white history in the wake of Native Title', Aboriginal History (Canberra), vol 20, 1996.