Portal:Western Australia

Authors

See also: Category:Western Australian authors

Works

• 1840: Sailing Directions For The Navigation About Rottnest Island by John Septimus Roe
• 1847: Register of land sale, Armstrong to Hall, 1847
• 1849: Ordinance enabling transportation of convicts to Western Australia by Charles Fitzgerald
• 1849: Resolutions of a Meeting held to determine whether Western Australia should apply to become a Penal Settlement
• 1872: An Australian Parsonage by Janet Millett
• 1878: Report of the Colonial Secretary and Colonial Surgeon on the salaries and emoluments of the assistants in the Perth Hospital and Fremantle Lunatic Asylum Trove record
• 1881: Account of the schooner Ethel being caught in a cyclone by William Shakespeare Hall
• 1899: Report of the Commission Appointed to inquire into the Penal System of the Colony
• 1903: Report on the outbreak of plague at Fremantle (transcription project)
• 2017: Wadjemup speech by Lindsay Dean

Newspapers

• The Perth gazette

Manuscripts

• 1834: Henry William Bunbury, diary, Book of Odds and Ends in the Australian Colonies.
• 1895: Sergeant Thomas Wheatley, Diary, 1895. Policeman at Fremantle, Bunbury, Roebourne, and Wyndham.
• c.1920s: Ricard Allen, Reminiscences'. Kimberley, Ashburton, Gascoyne, and Coolgardie.

Works relating to Noongar language

• The colours in the table below relate to the current page status of the work.
• Colours other than green indicate that more work is required.
• Items still under copyright are included here because this is a small corpus of works and it's not impossible to be exhaustive.

Status	Title	Author(s)	Date	Publisher	Notes	Scans	Trove
Not proofread	The Australian Race: Its Origins, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent	C. F. Armstrong, C. Taylor, et al. (Edward Micklethwaite Curr, ed.)	1886	Government Printer, Melbourne		Yes	14703121
Problematic	Papers of Daisy Bates	Daisy May Bates		Unpublished	National Library of Australia MS 365.		17461786
Problematic	A few notes on some South-Western Australian dialects, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 44, 1914, pp. 65-82.	Daisy May Bates	1914	Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland	Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2843531		172253139
Problematic	Native names for places, birds, fishes, etc. suitable as names of ships	Daisy May Bates	1907	Unpublished	Battye Library, PR565/1.		173671612
Copyright	A Nyoongar Wordlist: from the south-west of Western Australia	Bindon, P. and R. Chadwick (compilers and editors).	2011	Western Australian Museum	Probably not suitable for Wikisource?		Not found
Problematic	A descriptive vocabulary of the West Australian Aboriginal language	Right Rev. J. Brady, Bishop of Perth	1899	T. Bryan, Perth.			19711312
Problematic	Aboriginal Proper Nouns in Names from various sources for future reference by the Nomenclature Advisory Committee	Samuel Isaacs (compiled by F. S. Brockman)	1949	The Nomenclature Advisory Committee, Department of Land Administration, Perth			Not found
Problematic	South West Aboriginal Language or Dialect – What the Aboriginals term ‘Dornderup Wongie’ And Other Things Concerning Australia generally. Typescript.	Alfred John Bussell	1930	Unpublished	Typescript, prepared by Battye Library, Perth, c. 1930.		172252023
Problematic	A glossary of the Bibbulbmum (i.e. Bibbulmum) language	Davis, J. (compiler and illustrator).	Undated	Unpublished	Typescript, 196-?, Battye Library, Q 499.15 GLO		38612779
Not proofread	Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Language of Western Australia	George Grey; Charles Macfaull (ed.)	1839	Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, Perth		Yes (6 parts)	nla.news-article638998
Problematic	South West	George Grey, edited by Sandra Harben	Undated	Unpublished	Sourced from old Gazetteer Cards, Landgate.		Not found
Copyright	‘Native Vocabulary’ in Names from various sources for future reference by the Nomenclature Advisory Committee	Ethel Hassell	1949	The Nomenclature Advisory Committee, Department of Land Administration, Perth			Not found
Problematic	My dusky friends: Aboriginal life, customs and legends and glimpses of station life at Jarramungup in the 1880s	Ethel Hassell	1975	C. W. Hassell, Fremantle			13421072
Proofread	Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia performed between the years 1818 and 1822	Philip Parker King	1827	J. Murray, London	Vol. 2, pp. 144–7.	Yes	8483795
Proofread	Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in Western Australia and also A descriptive vocabulary of the language of the aborigines	George Fletcher Moore	1841	University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W. A., facsimile ed., 1978.		Yes	9388373
Proofread	Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London/Volume 1/Description of the Natives of King George's Sound (Swan River Colony) and adjoining Country	Isaac Scott Nind	1831	Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol 1, 1831, pp. 21–51.		Yes	12967007
Problematic	‘Native Vocabulary, 1913’ in Names from various sources for future reference by the Nomenclature Advisory Committee	W. J. Rae	1913	The Nomenclature Advisory Committee, Department of Land Administration, Perth, 1949			Not found
Problematic	Wordlist, Stirling Range area, Field Book 8, p. 146, Manuscript	Henry Samuel Ranford	1875	Department of Land Administration Library, Midland, Western Australia			Not found (See also all H. S. Ranford items)
Problematic	The Salvado memoirs: historical memoirs of Australia and particularly of the Benedictine mission of New Norcia and of the habits and customs of the Australian natives	Rosendo Salvado (E. J. Storman, ed.)	1977, first published in 1853 as (Spanish)	University of Western Australia Press			8489598
Problematic	Grammatical introduction of the study of the Aboriginal language of Western Australia	Charles Symmons	1841	Western Australian Almanack, Perth, 1842, appendix.			19897168

See also

• Portal:Western Australian parliamentary debates
• Portal:Australia