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RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
2006, Aboriginal Connections with Launceston Places, Launceston: Launceston City Council, 132pp, (with Dyan Summers), based on research and interviews with 20 Aboriginal community members from Launceston
2001, Contested Places: Tasmania’s Northern Districts from Ancient Times to 1900,
Hobart: Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, 230pp
Book chapters:
2010, ‘Extermination, Extinction, Genocide: British Colonialism & Tasmanian Aborigines’, in Rene Lemarchand (ed), Disputed Genocides, forthcoming
2008, ‘Defending the National Honour: the History Crusaders and Australia’s Past’, in Andrew Gunson (ed), Collected articles from the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing
2003, ‘Re-inventing social evolution’, in Robert Manne (ed), Whitewash: on Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Melbourne: Black Inc, pp 139-59
Refereed Journal articles:
2003, ‘Fabrication, Genocide and Denial: the History Crusaders and Australia’s Past’, History Australia (Journal of the Australian Historical Association), vol 1/1, December, pp 73-84
2001, ‘Farm Labour, Petty Law and ‘idle vagabonds’: Emancipated Convicts in Tasmania’s Northern Districts, 1853-1900’, Australian Studies (Glasgow), vol 16/1, June 2001
2000, ‘Local Authority in Colonial Tasmania’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, 2/1, pp 29 - 49
1996, ‘Human agency, historical inevitability and moral culpability: Rewriting black-white history in the wake of Native Title’, Aboriginal History, 20, pp 108-132
Other refereed articles:
2005, ‘Class’, The Companion to Tasmanian History, Alison Alexander (ed), Hobart: CTHS, Tasmania, 1, 408-414
1994, ‘Justice, humanity and the common good: John Pascoe Fawkner’s ideology of utilitarian justice, 1829-30’, Tasmanian Historical Studies, vol 4/2, pp 31-41
1992, 'Tasmanian Aborigines and Fire', Papers & Proceedings, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol 39/1, pp 40-43
1991, ‘Outdoor Poor Relief in Launceston 1860-80: A Study in Class Relations', Papers & Proceedings, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol 38/1, pp 19-50
1990, ‘Land and Power in the district of Deloraine 1825-75', Papers & Proceedings, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol 37/1, pp 22-33
Other Journal articles:
2004, ‘The Tamar as Aboriginal Country’, Journal of the Launceston Historical Society, Launceston.
2003, ‘Competing stories: denial, recognition and Tasmania's Aboriginal past’, Tasmanian Stories: the John Lees Forums, Hobart.
2003, ‘Criminals and pimps: Keith Windschuttle and Tasmanian Aborigines’, The Evatt Foundation website (August).
Dictionary & encyclopaedia entries:
2005 ‘Lucy Beedon’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, (750 words), print and e-versions
2005, ‘Aboriginal Islanders’, The Companion to Tasmanian History, Alison Alexander (ed), Hobart: CTHS, Tasmania, 1, 2 (750 words)
2005 ‘Lucy Beedon’, The Companion to Tasmanian History, Alison Alexander (ed), Hobart: CTHS, Tasmania, 1, 42 (750 words)
2001, ‘Tasmanian Aborigines’, in James Jupp (ed) The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Its People, and Their Origins, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, , pp 110-14 (4,000 words)
2000, ‘Foster, George Matthew (1884-1956)’, The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Ann Millar (ed), Melbourne, 1, 263 (1,500 words)
WORK IN PREPARATION:
Books:
A New History of Tasmanian Aborigines, in association with the School of Geography & Environmental Studies, a private consultancy for the Aboriginal Education Unit in the Tasmanian Education Department, a full-length, peer-reviewed book intended as a resource for Education Department curriculum writers, high school teachers and year 9-12 students, and for commercial release, publication intended for 2011
Slow Road Home, a 100,000 word scholarly travel book that explores the complex relations between national identity, ethnic origins and family history
Letter to my Mother, a 60,000 word scholarly memoir about personal identity that explores the psychological impact of loss of my mother in infancy, the experience of working in Aboriginal Studies as a ‘white’ academic, and the subsequent discovery that my mother’s grandmother was a Victorian Aborigine
CREATIVE WORKS:
2006, Deep-time Tasmania: a historical map of Tasmanian Aboriginal History and Culture, An official Tasmanian Bi-centenary Committee Project, September, 8,000 copies distributed to Tasmanian schools and tourism destinations [Other Creative Work]
2003, Bladel, R*, Breen, SM, Boyce, PJ, Alexander, AA, Cox, T*, Tasmanian Stories: The John Lees Forums. Forum 2 - Living History Today - The Legacy of the Past, ABC Radio, Tasmania, broadcast live from Stanley Burbury Theatre, University of Tasmania [K2] [Major creative Work]
BOOK REVIEWS:
2008, review of Michael Roe, An Imperial Disaster: The Wreck of George the Third, Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 2006. pp. x + 294. $50.00 cloth, in Labour History, Volume 94, May 2008, pp 174-6
2008, review of Margaret Glover and Alf Maclochlainn (eds), Letters of an Irish Patriot: William Paul Dowling in Tasmania, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Hobart, 2005. pp. 142. $27.50 paper, in Labour History, Volume 94, May 2008, pp 180-1
2006, review of Merete Falck Borch, Conciliation, Compulsion, Conversion: British Attitudes to Indigenous peoples 1763-1814, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2004. 318 pages, in Australian Historical Studies, Volume 37, Number 127
CONFERENCE & SEMINAR PAPERS SINCE 2000:
2007, ‘Family, ethnicity and nation: Irish-Australians and the Anzac Tradition’, 27 July, Seminar, School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania, Hobart
2007, ‘Sense and Nonsense: teaching History in Australian Schools’, Sunday Forum: The Royal Society of Tasmania, 1 July, public forum with John Hirst, Anne Green and Rod Ashman
2006, ‘Community-engaged research’, 6 October, address in Launceston at launch of Aboriginal Connections with Launceston Places
2006, ‘Mapping deep-time in Tasmania’, deep-time historical map, CAIA, Hobart
2004, ‘Emancipated convicts in colonial Tasmania from 1850s’, paper delivered at Port Arthur, 28 July
2004, ‘The Tamar as Aboriginal Country’, a paper presented to a symposium held by the Launceston Historical Society, 20 March
2002, ‘Irish-Australians and the Anzac Tradition’, October, Australians at War conference, Gallipoli, Turkey
2001, ‘Ethnic Origins, Family History and Australian Identity’, Launceston Historical Forum, August
2001, ‘John West, Tasmanian Aborigines and the Australian Nation’, Nation and Narration Conference, Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland, July
2000, ‘Environmental impacts of Indigenous burning practices in Tasmania’, University of Stirling, Scotland, 13 September
2000, ‘Aboriginal Reconciliation and Australian History’, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies Spring Seminar Series, King’s College, London, 4 October
2000, ‘Debates about Authenticity: Indigenous identity in late 20thC Tasmania’, Australian Studies Research Seminar, University of Wales, Lampeter, 12 October
OTHER PUBLIC OUTPUT:
2008, From Many Countries to One Tasmania: The First Tasmanians to c1800, Newspapers-in-Education, the Launceston Examiner, 1 July [newspaper article]
2008, From Many Countries to One Tasmania: The Modern Tasmanian Aboriginal Political Movement, Newspapers-in-Education, the Launceston Examiner, 22 July, [newspaper article]
2006, Interview on publication of Aboriginal Connections with Launceston Places, Awaye, ABCRadio National, Sydney, 21 December [Media Interview]
2006, ‘Interview on publication of Aboriginal Connections with Launceston Places’, November, Koori News [Media Interview]
2006, ‘Interview on publication of Aboriginal Connections with Launceston Places’, ABC Radio, Tasmania, 6 October [Media Interview]
2006, ‘Interview on publication of Deep-time Tasmania: a historical map’, ABC Television, Hobart, September [Media Interview]
2006, ‘Interview on publication of Deep-time Tasmania: a historical map’, ABC Radio, Hobart, September [Media Interview]
2005, ‘Interview about researching deep-time in Tasmania’ The Mercury newspaper, Hobart [Media Interview]
2003, ‘Comment on Genocide in Australian Frontier Conflict’, BBC Five-Live Radio, BBC, United Kingdom, 13 April [O3] [Media Interview]
2003 ‘Interview for Tasmanian Stories: the John Lees Forum’, Tasmanian Stories: the John Lees Forum, ABC Radio, Tasmania, 10 April [O3] [Media Interview]
2003, ‘Interview with Launceston Examiner on the History Wars’ [Media Interview]
2003, January, letter in The Australian re re-interpreting the Anzac tradition [newspaper article]
2002, ‘Aborigines' character is 'assassinated' by new book’, The Examiner, Launceston, 23 Dec [O1] [newspaper article]
2002, ‘Fabrication?: the truth is in the title’, The Age, Melbourne, 26 Dec [O1] [newspaper article]
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