Australian Aboriginal Studies (AAS) Journal 2025 (Issue 1)

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 1

• paperback
• 246mm x 189mm (paperback)
• 150pp
• Released May 2025
• ISSN 0729-4352
• ISBN 2370-0020-43472 (print)

 

 

Content

 

Major articles

Wangayarta: employing architecture, landscape architecture and design for repatriation and reburial initiatives to address historical injustices to Australian First Nations People

Jeffrey Newchurch and Elizabeth Grant

 

First Nations-determined storylines: Noongar story work in the Ancestors’ Words project

Elfie Shiosaki

 

Breathing life into dead wood: a snapshot of housing insecurity in Indigenous communities in Australia

Bronwyn Fredericks, Abraham Bradfield, Eden Bywater

 

Exploring Indigenous-led research through a reflexive pathway from an Australian context

Sophie George, Steve Kemp, Murrie Kemp, Michael Hewson, Holly Hosking, Janice Mani, Ryan du Preez, Mani Naiker

 

Collaborative mapping and digital storytelling as tools of Walbunja resurgence

Annick Thomassin, Tayla Nye, Kim Spurway, Linda Carlson, Adam Nye, Sherrie Nye, Adam McCarron, Jake Chatfield, Janet Hunt, Karen Soldatic

 

Defining ‘Indigenous agriculture’ in Australia

Joshua Gilbert, Jim Pratley, Paul Prenzler, Jeff McCormick

 

More than a memorial: the proposal to establish a National Resting Place for Indigenous Ancestral Remains in Australia

Anne Maree Payne and Heidi Norman

 

Change in Bathurst and Melville Island art: Baldwin Spencer’s spears at Melbourne Museum, Victoria, Australia

Harry Allen, Lily Grossbichler, Melanie Roberts

 

 

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Cover image

Macassan Beach (Garanhan) on the land of the Yolngu people, north-eastern Arnhem Land, NT. Photo: AIATSIS.