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Government works [edit]
- Aboriginal Welfare (1937), , initial conference of Commonwealth and State Aboriginal Authorities
- Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (1900)
- Constitution Act 1867
- Extraordinary Government Gazette of Western Australia (No.48 of 1890)
- Governor Bourke's Proclamation, 26 August 1835
- Lieutenant-Governor Stirling's Instructions 30 December 1828
- Lieutenant-Governor Stirling's Proclamation of the Colony 18 June 1829
- Masters and Servants Act, N.S.W. (1902)
- The Troubles Of Australian Federation, by G. B. Barton
- Western Australia Act (14 May 1829)
Treaties [edit]
Speeches and addresses [edit]
- Redfern Speech (10 December 1992), Paul Keating launching 1993 International Year of the World's Indigenous People
- Address on the opening of the Free Public Library of Ballarat East, on Friday, 1st. January, 1869 by Redmond Barry
Law [edit]
History [edit]
Historical journals and manuscripts [edit]
- A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
- A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
- A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
- A Voyage to Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders
- A Voyage Towards the South pole and Around the World by James Cook
- An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait on the south coast of New South Wales, in His Majesty's Ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4 by James Hingston Tuckey
- An Australian Parsonage by Janet Millett (1872)
- Australia Twice Traversed by Ernest Giles
- Batman's Treaty (6 June 1835)
- Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World made in H.M. bark "Endeavour" by James Cook
- Discoveries in Australia by John Lort Stokes
- Explorations in Australia by John Forrest
- Explorations in Australia by John McDouall Stuart
- Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Thomas Mitchell
- Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia by Ludwig Leichhardt
- Journal of Expedition in search of Burke and Wills by Frederick Walker
- Journals of Australian Exploration by Francis and Augustus Gregory
- Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia by Edward John Eyre
- Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley
- Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia by George Grey
- Journey of Discovery to Port Phillip by William Hovell and Hamilton Hume
- Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia by Phillip Parker King
- Narrative of a Voyage Round the World by Thomas Braidwood Wilson (1835)
- Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia by Charles Sturt
- Spinifex and Sand by David Carnegie
- Successful Exploration through the Interior of Australia by William John Wills
- The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks by Joseph Banks
- The Jerilderie Letter, 1879 by Ned Kelly
- The Journal of Abel Jansz Tasman by Abel Tasman
- The Journal of Gregory Blaxland by Gregory Blaxland
- Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia by Thomas Mitchell
- Tracks of McKinlay and party across Australia by John Davis (1863)
- Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia by Charles Sturt
Works of historical scholarship [edit]
- A Dictionary of Australian Words And Terms, 1924 by Gilbert H. Lawson
- A History of the Australian Ballot System in the United States, 1917
- Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay, 1845 by Clement Hodgkinson
- Cattle Chosen by Edward Shann
- Early Voyages to Terra Australis by Richard Henry Major
- History of West Australia, 1897 by W.B. Kimberly
- Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales, 1907 by R. H. Mathews
- Old Melbourne Memories, 1896 by Rolf Boldrewood
- The Coming Colony, 1892 by Philip Mennell
- The Cyclopedia of Western Australia: an historical and commercial review: descriptive and biographical facts, figures and illustrations: an epitome of progress, 1912 by James Sykes Battye
- The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888, by Ernest Favenc[1]
- The Irish in Australia, 1888 by James Francis Hogan
- The Last of the Bushrangers: An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang, 1895 by Francis Augustus Hare[2]
- The Passing of the Aborigines by Daisy Bates
- Victoria: with a description of its principal cities, Melbourne and Geelong, 1856 by Henry Butler Stoney
- Western Australia: a History from its Discovery to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth, 1924 by James Sykes Battye
- The Australian Commonwealth and her relation to the British Empire (1912) by George Houston Reid
Indigenous Australia [edit]
Natural history [edit]
- West Australian Orchids by Emily Pelloe
- Flora Australiensis by George Bentham
- A specimen of the botany of New Holland by James Edward Smith
- A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony by John Lindley
- A sketch of the physical structure of Australia, so far as it is at present known (1850) by Joseph Beete Jukes
- Sea and River-side Rambles in Victoria (1860) by Samuel Hannaford
Related biographies [edit]
- Life and Adventures of William Buckley by John Morgan
- The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. by Ernest Scott
Periodicals [edit]
- The Perth Gazette (1833 - )
- Fremantle Herald
- The Review of Reviews for Australasia
- Saw Milling in Tasmania, 1905
- Central Australia and the Aborigines, 1905
- A Continent in a Death Grip, 1905
- Australian Friendly Societies, 1905
- Tasmanian Lakes, 1905
Specific events [edit]
Sydney Riot of 1879 [edit]
The Sydney Riot of 1879 was the first riot to occur at an international cricket match. It threatened the immediate future of England-Australia cricket tours. The problems were exacerbated by the appearance of a letter from Lord Harris in the London press, and a reply from the New South Wales Cricket Association.
- Letter from Lord Harris on 11 February 1879
- Reply from the New South Wales Cricket Association on 4 June 1879
Songs [edit]
Transcription projects [edit]
To be proofread [edit]
- Index:A colonial autocracy, New South Wales under Governor Macquarie, 1810-1821.djvu
- Index:An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal.djvu, by Lancelot Edward Threlkeld, 1892
- Index:Coo-ee - tales of Australian life by Australian ladies.djvu
- Index:Dawson - Australian aborigines (1900).djvu, by James Dawson, 1881
- Index:Early struggles of the Australian press.djvu, by James Bonwick, 1890
- Index:Edwards's Australasian Catalogue 1899.djvu
- Index:Historical records of Port Phillip.djvu, by John Joseph Shillinglaw, 1879
- Index:Johns's notable Australians 1908.djvu
- Index:Journals of Several Expeditions Made in Western Australia.djvu, various authors, 1833
- Index:Native Tribes of South-East Australia.djvu, Alfred William Howitt, 1904
- Index:Some account of the wars, extirpation, habits.djvu James Erskine Calder
- Index:The Eureka Stockade.djvu
- Index:The Exploration of Australia - Calvert - 1896.djvu, by Albert Frederick Calvert, 1896
- Index:The History of Ballarat.djvu
- Index:The New Arcadia (Tucker).djvu Horace Tucker
- Index:The new British province of South Australia.djvu
- Index:Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland.djvu, Constance Campbell Petrie, 1904
- Index:Two Representative Tribes of Queensland.djvu
To be validated [edit]
- Index:An Australian Parsonage.djvu, by Janet Millett, 1872
- Index:Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay.djvu
- Index:Extracts from the letters and journals of George Fletcher Moore.djvu, by George Fletcher Moore, 1834
- Index:Feilberg.djvu (The Way We Civilise) Carl Adolf Feilberg, 1880
- Index:Germ Growers.djvu, by Robert Potter, 1892
- Index:Last of the tasmanians.djvu, James Bonwick, 1870
- Index:Life and Adventures of William Buckley.djvu, John Morgan, 1852
