Australian Aboriginal Studies (AAS) Journal 2025 (Issue 2)

Australian Aboriginal Studies (AAS) is a peer-reviewed journal that combines academic rigour with research excellence. The journal advances qualitative academic scholarship of significance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in established and emerging fields of humanities and social sciences in contemporary and historic Australian contexts.

The journal is published twice a year by AIATSIS. 

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Production Details

Issue 2

• paperback
• 246mm x 189mm (paperback)
• 90pp
• Released December 2025
• ISSN 0729-4352

 

 

Content

 

Major articles

Mabo’s Extension? Sovereignty Reimagined in Australian Court

Arieh Herszberg

 

Indigenous Literature Re-View Methodology: Findings from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Boarding School

Thu Pham and Jessa Rogers

 

The Original Archive: deep diving in Australia’s recorded history

Robyn Smith

 

AIATSIS’s partnership approach to repatriating significant material culture: an examination of the Bardi Jawi, Illinois State Museum and AIATSIS collaboration

Iain G Johnston, Christopher Simpson, Christiane Keller, the AIATSIS Return of Cultural Heritage team, and the Bardi Jawi knowledge holders and cultural authorities

 

Reflections on fieldwork with South Australian Aboriginal communities: respect, reciprocity, and waiting

Leda Sivak, Susan Hemer and Alex Brown

  

Book reviews

A Record in Bone (2023) by Michelle C Langley reviewed by Claire Smith

 

Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History (2024) by Laura Rademaker, Sally K May, Gabriel Maralngurra and Joakim Goldhahn reviewed by Iain G Johnston

 

Sorry and Beyond: Healing the Stolen Generations (2021) by Brian Butler and John Bond reviewed by Anne Maree Payne

 

Recent Releases 

 

Cover image

Vincent Lingiari and Gough Whitlam at Wattie Creek, 16 August 1975. Image by Mervyn Bishop, AIATSIS Collection DAA.003.BW-N04528_16A.