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Personal profile
Biography
Bain Attwood has published extensively in the history of colonialism. His sole authored books include The Making of the Aborigines (1989), Rights for Aborigines (2003), Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History (2005), Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History (2009), Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People (2020), and William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story (2021). He is jointly responsible for Thinking Black: William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines’ League (2004) and The 1967 Referendum: Race, Power and the Australian Constitution (2007). He has edited or co-edited several collections of essays, including Protection and Empire: A Global History (2017). He collaborated with Anne Scrimgeour to create a major website on the Pilbara Aboriginal strike: https://pilbarastrike.org/. He has held fellowships at the Australian National University (2001-03) and Cambridge University (2007-08), and the Harvard Chair of Australian Studies (2014-15). Bain has also undertaken work for the National Museum of Australia and written on indigenous history for newspapers. His ninth monograph, 'A Bloody Difficult Subject': Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History, will be published in May this year. He is currently working on a book about denial and Australia's black history, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
Supervision interests
I welcome students wishing to undertake theses in the fields of indigenous history, history and memory, and public history.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
History, PhD, La Trobe University
1981 → 1984
Award Date: 3 May 1985
History, MPhil, University of Auckland
1977 → 1978
Award Date: 2 Mar 1979
BSocSc, University of Waikato
1974 → 1976
Award Date: 1 Apr 1977
Research area keywords
- History and Memory
- Indigenous history
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A History of the Pilbara Aboriginal Strike as Event, Experience and Myth
Australian Research Council (ARC)
7/01/13 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Dispossession, history and restorative justice: a comparative study of three settler societies
Australian Research Council (ARC)
2/01/08 → 31/12/13
Project: Research
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William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story
Attwood, B., 2 Nov 2021, Carlton Vic Australia: The Miegunyah Press. 277 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People
Attwood, B., 2020, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. 432 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Historical Wounds and the Public Life of History: The Stolen Generations Narrative
Attwood, B., 20 Jul 2020, Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Perspectives, and the Anthropocene. Dube, S., Seth, S. & Skaria, A. (eds.). Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 140-147 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Looking the other way: Henrietta Drake-Brockman’s Younger Sons and denial in Australian history
Arnott, G. & Attwood, B., 2020, In: History Australia. 17, 1, p. 134-151 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Rights, Duties and Aboriginal People
Attwood, B., 2020, In: Australian Journal of Politics and History. 66, 4, p. 543-559 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review