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The texts below are drawn from adult literature, reference and text books and have been recommended as background reading to assist in teachers' understanding of the content of the HSIE K-6 syllabus. After review, some texts or excerpts from this list may also contain suitable material to present to students.

• Australian Social Trends 2007
  Australian Bureau of Statistics


• Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia
  2 Volume set: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Studies Aboriginal Studies Press 1994


• Geography Starts Here!
  Series: Maps and Symbols, Hills and Mountains, Rivers and Streams, Weather Around You, Where People Live, Your Environment, Wayland 1998


• Geography for Primary Schools: A resource for teachers of Studies of Society and Environment
  Australian Geography Teachers' Association and the Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia 1996


• Local History Resources
  Most local histories are written and published by local historical societies or commissioned by local councils.
  Copies are usually available through the local libraries, local historical societies, councils or tourist information centres.


• Moons, Months and Seasons
  Kyobundoh Company


• Regional Histories of NSW
  Outlines 17 regions in NSW and the key events and themes that have shaped each of them.


• Resource Units for Primary Teachers of Studies of Society and Environment
  Units, Futures Studies A; Futures Studies B; Impact of Technology Australian Federation of Societies for Studies of Society and Environment


• Social Atlas Series
  Australian Bureau of Statistics 1996


• Why Do We Celebrate That?
  Franklin Watts 1996


• Vision and Revision in Feminism
  Allen, Judith A. & Scott, Rose, Oxford 1995


• The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining
  Blainey, G, Melbourne University Press 1993


• The Parramatta Native Institution and the BlackTown: A History
  Brook, J. & Kohen, J.L, NSW Uni Press 1991


• Mabo: What the High Court Said and What the Government Did
  Butt, P. & Eagleson, R, Federation Press, Annandale 1996


• Teachers' Guide to Families of the World, AIDAB
  (AusAID) - Calder, M, Colliver, A, & Wildy, M 1995


• A Better World for All: Development Education for the classroom, AIDA
  (AusAID) / AGPS - Calder, M, & Smith, R 1992


• Religions of the World
  Champion, N. (ed), Belitha Press 1991


• The Mapping of Terra Australis: A Guide to Early Printed Maps of Australia - Antarctica and the South Pacific
  Clancy, R 1995


• Stephen A History of Australia
  10 Volumes: Gard, Macmillan 1999


• Key Guide to Australia's National Parks
  Cronin Reed, L, New Holland 1998


• Indigenous People and the Law in Australia
  Cunneen, C. & Libesman, T, Butterworths 1995


• Claiming of a Continent: A New History of Australia
  Day, D, Angus and Robertson 1997


• 1788
  Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and Settlement at Port Jackson
  Flannery, T. (Ed), Watkin Tench, Text Publishing 1996


• Mariner: Life and Adventures 1776-1801
  Flanney, T. (Ed) John Nicol, Text Publishing 1997


• The Voyage of the Endeavour: Captain Cook and the Discovery of the Pacific
  Frost, A, 1999


• The Search for John Small - First Fleeter
  Gillen, M, Library of Australian History 1988


• Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in NSW 1770-1972
  Goodall, H, Allen & Unwin in association with Black Books, St Leonards 1996


• To Market to Market: Local and International Markets
  Hamston, J, Macmillan 1994 (Connections series)


• Granta Book of the Family
  Ian, J, Allen & Unwin 1998


• The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia
  Horton, D. (Ed), Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1994
  (CD ROM available)


• Social change and cultural transformation in Australia
  Jamrozik, A, Boland, C. & Urquhart, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995


• The Little Red, Yellow, Black (and Green and Blue and White) Book
  Jonas, B, Langton, M. & AIATSU staff, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies 1993


• Perspectives on Society and Environment Volume 1 and 2
  McKenna, M. (Ed), Longman, Melbourne 1997


• Penguin History of Australia
  Maloney


• Media Watch
  Wayland - Mann, B 1993


• The Last Kooradgie: Mayengully-Chiefman of the Gundungurra Peoples
  Meredith, J, Kangaroo Press 1989


• Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia's Past
  Nicholas, S. (Ed), Cambridge University Press 1988


• The Pocket Aussie Fact Book
  Nicholson, M, Penguin 1997


• Images of Australian History
  Nicolls, G, Thomas Nelson, South Melbourne 1994


• Survival: A History of Aboriginal Life in NSW
  Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs (NSW) - Parbury, N, Sydney 1986


• Wild Places: Wilderness in Eastern NSW
  Prineas, P, Colong Foundation for Wilderness 1997


• W.G. McMinn
  , Melbourne University Press - Reid, G 1989


• Maybanke Anderson: Sex, Suffrage and Social Reform
  Ruskin Rowe - Roberts, J,1997


• Global Issues Vol. 2 #4, 1996, The Nature and Causes of Poverty
  Stirling, L. (ed.)


• Issues on Australia's Doorstep
  Townsend, K, One World Centre, Perth 1989


• Families of the World, AIDAB
  (now AusAID) - Tremblay, H 1995


• King Bungaree: A Sydney Aborigine Meets the Great South Pacific Explorers 1799-1830
  Vincent, K, Smith Kangaroo Press 1992


• Sociology Australia
  Watts, R, & Bessant, J, Allen & Unwin


• Inventing Australia
  White, R, Allen Unwin 1981


• Understanding the Australian Constitution: The Plain Words
  Wicks, B, Libra 1997


• Selected Events in Australian History
  Wormell, I, Macmillan 1998