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 the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). 

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Production Details

Issue 1

• paperback and digital
• 246mm x 189mm (paperback)
• 98pp
• Released June 2020
• ISBN 2370000807649

Issue 2

• paperback and digital
• 246mm x 189mm (paperback)
• 84pp
  
• Released January 2021
• ISBN 2370000874399

Excerpt

Content

Issue 1

Major Articles

The experiences of Native American girls attending Sherman Indian High School; Jessa Rogers and Lori Sisquoc

Are Aboriginal people a threat to the modern nation? A study of newsprint coverage of a racial discrimination complaint; Heidi Norman, Mehal Krayem, Cale Bain and Therese Apolonio

Aboriginal research methods and researcher reflections on working two-ways to investigate culturally secure birthing for Aboriginal women; Rhonda Marriott, Tracy Reibel, Janinne Gliddon, Denese Griffin, Juli Coffin, Anne-Marie Eades, Melanie Robinson, Angela Bowen, Sally Kendall, Tracy Martin, Leanne Monterosso, Fiona Stanley and Roz Walker 

Presenting to hospital emergency: analysis of clinical notes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients with traumatic brain injury in North Queensland; Sarah Veli-Gold, John Gilroy, Alan Clough, Fintan Thompson, Michelle Fitts, Adrian Esterman, Jennifer Fleming, Paul Maruff and India Bohanna 

Research report

Strengths and challenges of Aboriginal art centre marketing; Skye Akbar and Anne Sharp 

Issue 2

Editorial

Craig Ritchie

Major Articles

Marrathalpu mayingku ngiya kiyi. Minyawaa ngiyani yata punmalaka; wangaaypu kirrampili kara. In the beginning it was our people’s law. What makes us well; to never be sick. Cohort profile of Mayi Kuwayu: the National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing; Raymond Lovett, Makayla-May Brinckley, Bronwen Phillips, Janet Chapman, Katherine A Thurber, Roxanne Jones, Emily Banks, Terry Dunbar, Anna Olsen and Mark Wenitong

Re-placing schooling in Country: Australian stories of teaching and learning for social and ecological renewal; Karulkiyalu Country, Paul Gordon, David Spillman and Ben Wilson

Memory poles within Toonooba: carvings of place, identity and Country along the Fitzroy River; Bronwyn Fredericks and Abraham Bradfield

Walking the line between academic expectations and fulfilling obligations to the mob: qualitative research processes for researching in Australian Aboriginal contexts; Sharman Okan and Jillene Harris

Commentary

Knowledge and power: the tale of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander data; Raymond Lovett, Jacob Prehn, Bhiamie Williamson, Bobby Maher, Vanessa Lee, Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews and Maggie Walter

About The Author

The ASS Journal comprises of many contributing authors. For more information on contributors, please refer to the content section above.

About The Cover

'Ngangk Boodjar', 2018, mural compiled by Aunty Millie Penny from Birthing on Ngangk Boodjar Symposium participants' artwork.

Honouring Land Connections floodmarker artworks in Toonooba Park, Rockhampton, by artists Pamela Croft-Warcon, Kaylene Butler, Howard (Joe) Butler and Trey Butler. Photograph by Bronwyn Fredericks. Photographs of detail from the work are included in Brownyn Fredericks and Abraham Bradfield’s paper in this issue.