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throughout Australia (1964-1967).
The Aborigines Project of the Council came to fruition in
1970-71 with the publication of the trilogy of Professor C.D. Rowley,
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Destruction of Aboriginal Society, Remote Aborigines, Otttcastes
in White Australia, works which provided a comprehensive guide
to underlying trends, to policies and key issues.
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In addition to this major work the Research Council (now
the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia) was responsible
for bringing about collaboration in this major research enterprise,
resulting in the following publications, in addition to Rowley’s,
in the series Aborigines in Australian Society: F. Lancaster
Jones (1970), The ,Structure and Growth of Australia’s Aboriginal
Population; Ronald Taft, John L.M. Dawson, Pamela Beasley (1970),
Attitudes and Social Conditions; J.P.M. Long (1970), Aboriginal
Settlements ; A Survey of Institutional Communities in Eastern
Australia; H,P. Schapper (1970), Aboriginal Advancement to Integration:
Conditions and Plans for Western Australia; Fay Gale, assisted
by Alison Brookman (1972), Urban Aborigines; Peter M. Moodie
(1973), Aboriginal Health; Leonard Broom and F. Lancaster Jones
(1973), A Blanket a Year; Frank Stevens (1974), Aborigines in
the Northern Territory Cattle Industry; Hazel M. Smith and Ellen
F. Biddle (1975), Look Forward, Not Back : Aborigines in Metropolitan
Brisbane; Elizabeth Eggleston (1976), Fear, Favour or Affection :
Aborigines and the Criminal Law in Victoria, South Australia
and Western Australia,
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The Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra,
was established in 1961, and was responsible also, in the seventies,
for commissioning conferences and publications, including in
1978 Black Australia (Hill and Barlow), a bibliography of writings
which could be used as references in the teaching of the social sciences.
The apparent indifference in the pre-1970s of social scientists
has given way to a concern to give shape and form to the world