GENERAL REFERENCE SOURCES
Australians:. A Historical Library. 1987.
Reference Collection 994 A9425
...see especially...
v.4 Australians: 1938, ed. B. Gammage.
v.5 Australians from 1939, ed. A. Curthoys.
v.6 Atlas stand Australians: a historical atlas, ed. J.C.R. Camm.
v.7 Australians: a guide to sources, ed. D.H. Borchardt.
v.8 Australians: events and places, ed. G. Aplin.
v.9..Australians: a historical dictionary, ed. G. Aplin.
v.10 Australians: historical statistics,, ed. W. Vramplew.
v.11 Australians: the guide and index
Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries
There are a number of these in the Reference Collection, at 994.003.
For example :
The Oxford companion to Australian history, ed. G. Davison. 1998.
Reference Collection
994.003 D265o
Others are:
The Australian people : an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins, ed. James Jupp. 2nd ed. 2001
Reference Collection 994 J95a.2
Cambridge encyclopedia of Australia. 1994
Reference Collection 03 B199c
Australian encyclopaedia. 6th ed. 1996
Reference Collection 03 A93.5
Chronologies
These can be useful to get dates for searching newspapers.
Reference collection 994 M173 1997
The Macquarie encyclopedia of Australian events, ed. Bryce Fraser 1997
Reference Collection 994B255w
Barker, A. What happened when? Chronology of Australia. from 1788 to 1994 . 1996.
Parliament of Australia. Parliamentary Library. "Australia and Refugees, 1901-2002: An Annotated Chronology based on Official Sources" . Dr Barry York.
Child Migration Timeline
Biography
Australian dictionary of biography, ed. D. Pike. v. 1- now online
and also in print at
Reference Collection 920 A937
Reference Collection 305.42099 R129t
200 Australian women: a redress anthology. ed. H.Radi. 1988.
Statistics
For statistics of various ethnic groups in Australia browse in the
Main Collection 305.80099405 A938Ic for
Community profiles.....Cambodian born, Croatia born, Fiji born etc
these include data from the 1991 and 1996 censuses.
Data from the 2001 census is available in DIMIA's Community Information Summaries:
Also see the various Yearbooks, for Australia and for each of the States. These are in the Reference Collection at 319.4.
Australian Bureau of Statistics . Follow the links People > Demography > Migration.
Finding books in the library catalogue
Search the catalogue for the following combinations of words , searching by Subject Heading
Australia Emigration and immigration
Australia Emigration and immigration Government policy
Immigrants Australia
Chinese Australia
Italians Australia etc
Refugees Australia
Refugees Indochina
Multiculturalism Australia
White Australia policy
Many headings are used for books on child migration. Try some of these
Immigrant children Australia--Biography.
Immigrant children Great Britain--Biography.
Immigrant children Institutional care Australia
Orphans Great Britain Colonies
Forced migration Great Britain History
You can get a good result in guided keyword search (31 titles) by putting these terms in the top box
immig? child? brit?.......all of these
and in the second box
australia? colonies........any of these
How to find journal articles and other references
Australian coverage
For a thorough search for journal articles on a specific topic, working back from the most recent, go through the following databases and indexes in the order given here:
1. APA-FT Australian public affairs -full text
Citations for articles published 1978- , and full text for selected articles 1995- .
2. Index to journal articles on Australian history for 1974-1988 .
Reference Collection 994.0016 A138
3. Index to journal articles on Australian history, comp. T. Hogan. 1976? Covers journal articles published up to 1973.
4. Australian public affairs information service (APAIS) 1945- no. 1 (1945)-
Great for older contemporary articles from the 1940's to the 1970's, across many of the topics looked at in this course.
Other Australian databases may also be useful:
AustraliaNew Zealand Reference Centre...news as well as scholarly journals.
MAIS (Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies)
Contemporary Australian issues. Published: 1993-1994.
Reference Collection 994.0016 C761
A collection of bibliographies covering topics such as Racism and the immigration debate, Australia's role in the Asia-pacific region, etc.
International coverage
There are also general multidisciplinary databases, which index journals from overseas and also some Australian journals.
Academic OneFile
A collection of nearly 20 million peer-reviewed, articles, from more than
8000 journals, some Australian.
Coverage 1980-
Academic Search Premier 1985-
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals aross all
subject areas.
Project Muse
gives access to the full text of articles of University Press and other scholarly academic journals in the social sciences and hunanities, and other fields, and covers material published since the mid 1990s.
Historical abstracts (does not include USA).
PIO (Periodicals index online)
A database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years. You can search for contemporary articles from eg the 1920's or 1930's. Some full text available via
PAO (Periodicals archive online)
JSTOR
This is a library of scholarly journals in full text, allowing searches across the full text of articles. It covers journals mostly in the social sciences and humanities, and provides the full content of selected journals from their first issue and up to 3-5 years ago. Its scope is international, but includes coverage of some Australian journal titles. Searches can be limited to time periods, making it possible to find primary sources - contemporary sources and comment .
Bibliographies
Australian immigration: a bibliography and digest. 1966-1979 and supplement, 1981.
Reference collection 325.9405 A938
Clearing House on Migration Issues. C.H.O.M.I. Bibliographies, no. 2- 1977-
Reference collection 325.9405 C623c
Economics of Australian immigration: an annotated bibliography. 1990.
Reference collection 325.94016 A938e
Reference collection 305.800994 R121
Racial discrimination in Australia. 1990
Bibliography of Australian multicultural writers . S. Gunew. 1992
Reference collection 820.9A G975b
Bodi, L. Image of a continent: a bibliography of German Australiana from the beginnings to 1975. 1990.
Reference collection 994.0040431 B667i
Jay, W.E. Italians in Australia: a bibliography, 1977.
Reference collection 305.8016 J42i
Reference collection 994.004924 L6956
Lieberman, S. Bibliography of Australian Judaica. 2nd. rev. ed. 1991.
994.0049185 R638p
Robe, S. Poles and Australia: a bibliographical record 1775-1980. 1986.
There is an excellent Library bibliography series published by the Bureau of Immigration and Population Research, Central Library of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs.
Some of the titles in this series include:
Reference collection 305.9827094 A938a Arabic speaking immigrants in Australia : an annotated bibliography. 1993
Reference collection 305.40994 A938Ii Immigrant women in Australia : an annotated bibliography. 1993
Reference collection 305.89592094 A938i Indochinese refugees in Australia : an annotated bibliography. 1990
Reference collection 305.800994 Y61m York, B. Maltese migration : an annotated guide to research sources . 1993
Reference collection 306.60994 A938Im Migrants and religion : an annotated bibliography.1996
Reference collection 709.94016 A938Bm Migrants and the arts : an annotated bibliography. 1996.
Reference collection 305.80099405 S933 Studies in Australian ethnic history, Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Australian National University
1. York, B. Immigration restriction 1901-1957 : annual returns as required under the Australian Immigration Act between 1901 and 1957 on persons refused admission, persons who passed the dictation test and departures of coloured persons from Australia. 1992
2. York, B. Admitted 1901-1946 : immigrants and others allowed into Australia between 1901 and 1946 : data by year on persons not asked to pass the dictation test, their nationalities or race, the countries whence they came and the sections of the Immigration Act under which they were allowed . 1993.
3. York, B. Admitted 1947-1957 : annual returns on persons admitted into Australia and their places of last permanent residence. 1993.
6.York, B. Exclusions and admissions : the Chinese in Australia, 1901-1946. 1994.
7. Duyker, E. Exclusions and admissions : the Dutch in Australia, 1902-1946 . 1994.
8.Jupp, J. Birthplaces of the Australian people : colonial & commonwealth censuses, 1828-1991
10.York, B. Departures of 'coloured persons' from Australia, 1905 to 1946. 1995
12.York, B. Racial characteristics of the Australian people : Commonwealth censuses 1911-1966.1996
13.York, B. Ethno-historical studies in a multicultural Australia. 1996
WWW RESOURCES
Documenting a democracy : Australia's story
Australian stories , from the Australian Government's Culture and Recreation Portal.
Australian Bureau of Statistics . Follow the themes (scroll down grey side bar)
People > Demography > Migration.
Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies , Australian National University.
Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Citizenship See particularly their:
Publications, Research, Statistics
National Library of Australia: Australian History.
Electronic journal of Australian and New Zealand History.
National Museum of Australia
State Library of South Australia
Migration Museum, South Australia
Immigration Museum (Victoria)
The Australian Federation full text database
ABC online
Picture Australia , hosted by the National Library of Australia
Child migration
Child migrants (BBC)
Lost Innocents: Righting the Record - Report on child migration
Australian archives fact sheet (no 124)on child migration
Child migration timeline
British Child Migration to Australia: History, Senate Inquiry and Responsibilities .Author: Antonio Buti.
UK Department of health Information for former British child migrants
Child Migrants from the United Kingdom e-brief from the Parliamentary library
Attiudes to migration and migrants
Aliens to Australians, from the John Curtin Archive
Displaced persons in SA
Australian in my difference: Women and migration in Australia since 1945
Department of Immigration and Citizenship fact sheets:
4. More than 60 years of Post-war migration
6. The Evolution of Australia's Multicultural Policy
8. Abolition of the 'White Australia' Policy
Internment of aliens
German internment WWI
Internment camps National Archives of Australia.
Peter Dunn's Australian at war website: Prisoner of war and internment camps in Australia during WW2
PRIMARY SOURCES
Some primary sources may be found in the WWW RESOURCES listed above...people's stories, evidence, governemnt documents etc
LIBRARY CATALOGUE
Using the Guided Keyword search option, type australia sources and then add other search terms, depending on your topic:
eg. search terms, or phrases, such as immigra?, migra?, refugee?, foreign relations
ARCHIVES
The State Library of South Australia holds private, business and society archives.
Search their catalogue, limiting to archival, for information about selected material held in the Library's South Australiana collections, including photographs and other pictorial items, ephemera, and references and other citations from published works.
Pictorial resources are also available from the Picture Australia website.
State Records of South Australia
National Archives af Australia 78 Wakefield St., Adelaide
There are very good fact sheets on migration, citizenship and travel
and
Research Guides are available online or in print:
Royalty and Australian society : records relating to the British monarchy held in Canberra 1998.
Reference collection 994.04 C971r
Good British stock : child and youth migration to Australia, 1999.
Reference collection 325.2410994 N277g
Citizenship in Australia : a guide to Commonwealth Government records, 1999.
Reference collection 323.60994 N277c
Safe haven : records of the Jewish experience in Australia, 1999
Reference collection 994.004924 T943s
Main Collection 994.004924 T943s
Near neighbours : records on Australia's relations with Indonesia, 2001.
Reference Collection 327.940598 M588n
More people imperative : immigration to Australia, 1901-39, 1999
Reference collection 325.94 L278m
Allies, enemies and trading partners : records on Australia and the Japanese, Pam Oliver, 2004
Reference collection 327.94052 O487a
Chinese-Australian journeys: records on travel, migration and settlement, 1860-1975, Paul Jones, 2005.
print on order for ref
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Register of Australian Archives and Maunuscripts (RAAM)
More are listed on the library's guide to Archive and Manuscript collections
ORAL HISTORY
You may want to do some interviewing yourself. These books may help you:
Robertson, B. M. Oral history handbook 5th ed. 2006.
907.2 O623.6 main collection
Bolton, A. T. Interviewing for oral history at the National Library of Australia : a short guide. 1994. 907.2 B694i
Others can be found, through the Library catalogue, using the subject search:
Oral history Handbooks, manuals, etc.
OPINION POLLS
Reference collection 303.38099 M736
Australian opinion polls 1941-1990: an index
This provides an index to the following two series:
Australian gallup polls, 1942-1973 Spec. Coll. oversize(rare) 994.05 A93
Morgan gallup polls 1- , 1973- Spec. Coll Oversize(rare) 994.05 M849f
Special collections rare books 330.99405 M741
Monday conference: transcript, Australian Broadcasting Commission.
Transcripts of the television program, each on a different topic.
1 (1971:May:17) - 290 (1978:Dec:04)
THESES
Theses undertaken for higher degrees often contain references to sources in their bibliographies.
Use them as a useful guide.
To find theses submitted to the University of Adelaide History Dept., search the catalogue using the Any keywords option:
thesis history adelaide ....[then word or words relating to your subject interest]
NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS (FULL TEXT)
Australian Public Affairs Newspaper Cuttings Collection, 1952 - 1981 Mfilm Per 44
For a full guide see Newspapers and news services on the Library's website.
The Barr Smith Library holds, on microfilm, major newspapers from all Australian states.
Some useful major sources are:
Advertiser (Adelaide). 1858 + MF PER 1 Advertiser (Adelaide). 1858 - 1952, 1965 +
The Australian. 1964- MF PER 41
Sydney Morning Herald. 1842- MF PER 14 and partial Index Reference collection 05 S988
Bulletin (Sydney) 1880- MF PER 115
Australian Women's Weekly 1933-1969 MF PER 105,
partially indexed by the Australian Women's Weekly 1946 -71 Index
Factiva provides access to the full text of many Australian and international newspapers.
Coverage varies; for some newspapers, the coverage is from the 1980s onwards, but for most Australian titles the coverage begins in the 1990s.(Best coverage is for the
Sydney Morning Herald , which is available here from 1986- .)
Note that this database will give the full text of articles, but not illustrations, advertisements, or cartoons.
For essay question 9:
Argus (Melbourne): Index. 1846 - April 1859, 1910 - 1949.
Reference Collection 05 A694
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project from the National Library.
Currently under development. More than 2 million pages have been scanned, and the fulltext will be searchable.
A list of the titles and date ranges scanned is available from the Selected Newspapers page.........only a few years for each title at this stage.
Use with care: check coverage.
PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS
The library has a guide entitled Parliamentary publications in the Barr Smith Library.
There is lots of useful information in the Australian section of our guide, including call numbers for finding the debates etc in the 320's on level 1 of the library.
Parliamentary debates (Hansard) record what was actually said in Parliament, and as such are a rich source for historical research. Parliamentary papers publish reports that are tabled in Parliament. These can be individual reports on an issue or the annual reports of state or commonwealth officials or departments. There are indexes for each parliamentary session either at the beginning or the end of the volumes and there are also separately published indexes listed in the booklet which are shelved in the Reference Collection.
Parliament of Australia is on the www and you can search the debates in the House of Representatives (Hansard) 2005 to 1981 and of the Senate 1981-2005.
Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry, 1902–2004
(Commonwealth of Australia commissions only, does not include states)
For question 9:
To follow up references to Hansard, see the Library catalogue :Australia. Parliament. Parliamentary Debates. [Hansard]. 1902- Main collection 328.9406 A93p
each volume has an index.
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