^[1] C.D. Rowley, Outcasts in White Australia, (Canberra, 1971), p. 263.

^[2] Richard Broome, Aboriginal Australians: Black Response to White Dominance, (Sydney, 1982), p. 176.

^[3] Ronald Taft et al., Attitudes and Social Conditions, (Canberra, 1970), p. 31.

^[4] Hannah Middleton, But Now We Want the Land Back, (Sydney, 1977), p. 123.

^[5] Middleton, But Now We Want the Land Back, p. 113.

^[6] Charles Perkins, A Bastard Like Me, (Sydney, 1975), p. 74.

^[7] ibid., p. 76.

^[8] ibid, p. 80.

^[9] Frank Hardy, The Unlucky Australians, (Sydney, 1968).

^[10] C.D. Rowley, Outcasts in White Australia, (Canberra, 1971), p. 406.

^[11] Rowley, Outcasts, p. 384.

^[12] Middleton, But Now We Want the Land Back, p. 117.

^[13] Lyndall Ryan, ‘Federal Policies in the Seventies’, in Erik Olbrei, ed., Black Australians: The Prospects for Change, (Townsville, 1982), p. 35.

^[14] Mihrrpum v. Nabalco Pty. Ltd., Federal Law Reports, (Supreme Court of N.T., 1971), p. 252.

^[15] ibid., p. 243. (Here, Blackburn was quoting the Judicial Committee’s ruling, on appeal from the Supreme Court of New South Wales, in the case of Cooper v. Stuart, 1889, p. 286).

^[16] For example, see such examinations of the historical tenacity of Aboriginal resistance as Fergus Robinson and Barry York, eds, The Black Resistance, (Sydney, 1975), and Henry Reynolds, The Other Side of the Frontier, (Ringwood, 1982). Nevertheless, it must be admitted that, in eighteenth century terms, the annexation was both legal and normal. For a discussion of this issue, see Alan Frost, ‘New South Wales as Terra Nullius: The British Denial of Aboriginal Land Rights’, Historical Studies, vol. 19, no. 77, October 1981, pp. 513-523.

^[17] Milirrpum v. Nabalco, p. 244.

^[18] ibid., pp. 202-203.

^[19] Bobbi Sykes, MumShirl: An Autobiography, (Richmond Vic., 1981), p. 74.

^[20] Ann Turner, ed., Black Power in Australia: Bobbi Sykes versus Senator Neville T. Bonner, (South Yarra, Vic., 1975), p. 60.

^[21] Rowley, A Matter of Justice, (Canberra, 1978), p. 2.

^[22] Quoted in Kevin Gilbert, ‘Because A White Man’ll Never Do It’, (Sydney, 1973), p. 29.

^[23] Noel Loos and Jane Thomson, ‘Black Resistance Past and Present: An Overview’, in Olbrei, ed., Black Australians: The Prospects for Change, p. 28.

^[24] Quoted in Gilbert, ‘Because’, p. 29.

^[25] See Paul Coe’s comments, quoted in ibid., p. 29.

^[26] Gilbert, ‘Because’, p. 30.

^[27] Gilbert, ibid., p. 28.

^[28] Middleton, But Now We Want, p. 160.

^[29] Gilbert, ‘Because’, p. 28.

^[30] Quoted in Kevin Gilbert, Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert, (Ringwood, Vic., 1978), p. 207.

^[31] Broome, Aboriginal Australians, p. 185.

^[32] Gilbert, ‘Because’, p. 67.

^[33] Quoted in Gilbert, Living Black, p. 218.

^[34] Daniel Vachon and Phillip Toyne, ‘Mining and the Challenge of Land Rights’, in Peterson and Langton, eds, Aborigines, Land, and Land Rights, (Canberra, 1983), p. 307.

^[35] Broome, Aboriginal Australians, p. 188.

^[36] Broome, ibid., p. 188.

^[37] Broome, ibid., p. 190.

^[38] Lyndall Ryan, ‘Federal Policies in the Seventies’, in Olbrei, ed., Black Australians: The Prospects for Change, p. 36.

^[39] ibid., p. 37.

^[40] The Northern Territory government’s pamphlet, Draft Proposals on Aboriginals and Land in the Northern Territory, (Darwin, 1982). The emphasis is mine.

^[41] The Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act, no. 20 of 1981.

^[42] Stan Pelczynski, ‘Land Rights Supplement’, Action for Aboriginal Rights Newsletter, no. 22, 1987, pp. 2-5.

^[43] ‘Land Rights – The Story So Far’, Land Rights News, September 1985, p. 9.

^[44] Bob Collins, ‘Land Rights in the Northern Territory’, in Olbrei, ed., Black Australians: The Prospects for Change, p. 46.

^[45] Harris, ‘It’s Coming Yet …‘, p. 51.

^[46] Germaine Greer, ‘Time to Party, or Protest’, The Independent, 4 January, 1988, p. 15.

^[47] Anne Jamieson, ‘The Push for an Aboriginal Parliament’, The Weekend Australian, 6-7 February, 1988, p. 24.

^[48] Dr H.C. Coombs, ‘Commentary’, in Olbrei, ed., Black Australians: The Prospects for Change, p. 38.