The Special Collection contains many important published and unpublished material on Northern Australia. The Special Collection is a closed collection.
To access items from the Special Collection, visit your campus library service desk or complete the Special Collections Retrieval Form. Twenty-four hours notice is required and retrieval is on normal working days.
The following theses are available in the Special Collection.
Austin, Tony (1989). Exceptionally Assimilable: The Commonwealth and Half-Caste Youth in the Northern Territory 1911-1939. PhD
Parry, Suzanne (1992). Disease, Medicine and Settlement: The Role of Health and Medical Services in the Settlement of the Northern Territory, 1911-1939. PhD
Wells, Julie (1995). The Long March: Assimilation Policy and Practice in Darwin, the Northern Territory, 1939-1967. PhD
The following theses are available by searching in the Research Webportal.
Northern Territory University
Brian, Bernie (2001). The Northern Territory’s One Big Union: The Rise and Fall of the North Australian Workers’ Union, 1911-1972. PhD
Clancy, Jane (1999). A Peg on the Tongue Silencing Women: An Oral History Case Study about Growing Up in Darwin during the 1950s. PhD
Dewar, Mickey (1993). In Search of the ‘Never-Never’: Looking for Australia in Northern Territory Writing 1837-1992. PhD
Elder, Peter (1998). Charles Lydiard Aubrey Abbott: Countryman or Colonial Governor? PhD
Hillock, Ian (1999). Plantation Agriculture in the Northern Territory (1878-1889). MEd
Hugo, David (1995). Mica Mining at Harts Range, Central Australia, 1880s-1960: A Study of
Ethnicity and the Impact of Isolation. PhD
Jung, Silvano (2001). Wings beneath the sea: The aviation archaeology of Catalina flying boats in Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory. MA
Karlsen, Christine (1997). Cultural Exclusion and Interaction: An Historical Study of the Aboriginal, Anglo-Australian, Chinese and Greek Groups in Darwin, Northern Territory of Australia, 1880-1980. PhD
Reynolds, Robyn (1999). Catholic Sacrament Engaging with Wadeye Ritual. PhD
Wilson, Bill (2000). A Force Apart? A History of the Northern Territory Police Force 1870-1926. PhD
Charles Darwin University
Bathgate, Jane (2004). Replenished: Sources of Meaning, Sources of History in the Pine Creek Area, Northern Territory, Australia. PhD
Bellamy, Craig (2020). The Beginnings of the Secret Australian Radar Countermeasures Unit during the Pacific War. PhD
Bender, Jack (2005). RAAF Station Darwin: A Strategic and Military Response in the Northwestern Area, 1837-1942. MA
Beresford-Maning, Wendy (2009). For the Love of God: A History of Some Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in the Top End of the Northern Territory. PhD
Browne, Lloyd (2016). “Then my memory will get justice”: The Finniss controversy revisited. PhD
Cramp, Norman (2021). The Social, Economic and Political Impact of the Great War on the Northern Territory. PhD
De La Rue, Colin (2007). For the Good of His Majesty’s Service: The Archaeology of Fort Dundas, 1824-1829. MA
De La Rue, Kathy (2014). Ruled by remote control: The Commonwealth's role in the history of Darwin, 1911-1978. PhD
Gibson, Eve (2004). Beyond the Boundary: A History of Land Use and Planning in Fannie Bay 1869-2000. PhD
Gordon, Christine (2004). The Catholic Church and the Status of Women: Port Keats, 1935-1958. PhD
Hillock, Ian (2005). Rethinking Colonial Endeavour in relation to Agricultural Settlement in the Northern Territory, 1863 to 1945. PhD
Jung, Silvano (2008). Australia’s Undersea Aerial Armada: The Aviation Archaeology of World War II Flying Boats Lying in Roebuck Bay, Broome, Western Australia. PhD
Ling, Ted (2009). Blame and Martyrs: The Commonwealth Government and the Northern Territory Pastoral Industry, 1911-1978. PhD
Mastin, Julie (2018). A man of many dreams: John George Knight, a life of fortune and misfortune in Victoria and the Northern Territory, 1851-1892. PhD
Phelts, Bev (2005). Water and the Economic Development of the Northern Territory 1824-2002. PhD
Smith, Robyn (2011). Arcadian populism: The Country Liberal Party and self-government in the Northern Territory. PhD
Stanton, Sue (2007). Coloureds and Catholics: A Colonial Subject’s Narrative of the Factors that Led to the Colonisation and Conversion of Coloureds at Garden Point Mission. PhD
Steinberg, David (2005). A ship for the taking: The wreck of the Brisbane as a case study in site salvage and material culture reuse. MA
Stephen, Matthew (2009), Contact Zone: Sport and Race in the Northern Territory, 1869-1953. PhD
Whitebeach, Terry (2006). Telling Someone Else’s Story: The Life History of Alexander Donald (Pwerle) Ross (1915-1999). PhD
Whitehead, Jan (2008). Settling Down: The Role of Housing in the Commonwealth’s Northern Territory. PhD