More Links and Further Reading

Government agencies

• the Australian Heritage Commission
• the Australian Insititute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Reconciliation Australia
• the Indigeneous Land Corporation
• the National Native Title Tribunal
• the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management
• the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage pages

Non-governmental organisations

• The Ngadjon-jii Elders from the rainforest country around Malanda in North Queensland have assembled a record of their history and culture on this fascinating website. The earliest photographs date from 1890 and proceed to present, providing a rare insight into their destiny as a people.
• Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation.

Further Reading

Aboriginal Interests and Queensland Wet Tropics World Heritage Area Management
by Johanna Sutherland, James Cook University, 1992

Aboriginal Life in the Rainforest - The Aboriginal people of Jumbun and Helen Pedley
by the Queensland Department of Education, 1992
This lovely book, illustrated with abundant photographs, looks at plant and animal use by the Jirrabul people of Jumbun at Murray Upper, north of Cardwell.

Aboriginal Tools of the Rainforest - The Aboriginal people of Jumbun and Helen Pedley
by Jumbun Ltd and H. Pedley, 1993
Companion to Aboriginal Life in the Rainforest; this book looks at the material culture of the Jirrabul and Girramay people.

A Guide To Traditional Aboriginal Rainforest Plant Use
by the Kuku Yalanji of Mossman Gorge (John Roberts, Colin (CJ) Fisher and Roy Gibson), Bamanga Bubu Ngadimunku Inc., 1995
"We have been entrusted with this knowledge and it is our job to pass it on to young people. We are happy to share it with you."

The Bama: People of the Rainforest
by Timothy Bottoms, Gadja Press, 1992
Aboriginal - European relations in the Cairns rainforest region up to 1876

Djabugay Country - An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland
by Timothy Bottoms with Forward by Djabugay Elders, Preface by Noel Pearson and Afterword by Henry Reynolds, Allen & Unwin, 1999
Djabugay Country is the story of this people and their struggle - what happened to them and how it happened. It takes us from first contact between the rainforest dwellers and the newcomers to the present day. Through accounts of the lives of families and individuals, it shows how out of dispossession and tragedy has come strength and hope.

Invasion and Resistance: Aboriginal - European Relations on the North Queensland Frontier 1861-1897
by Noel Loos, Australian National University Press, 1982

Reasonable Expectations or Grand Delusions?
by Bama Wabu, Cape York Land Council, 1996
Submission to the draft Wet Tropics Plan

The Little Red, Yellow and Black (and Green and Blue and White) Book
by the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies on behalf of The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, 1994
A short guide to Indigenous Australia

The Way We Civilise: Aboriginal Affairs - the Untold Story
by Rosalind Kidd, University of Queensland Presss, 1997
A history of Aboriginal affairs in Queensland

Which Way Our Cultural Survival? The Review Of Aboriginal Involvement in the Management of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area
by the Review Steering Committee, Wet Tropics Management Authority, 1998
A commentary on current approaches to Aboriginal involvement, and recommendations on meeting land management needs and the aspirations of Rainforest Aboriginal people.