Dr Andrew Gunstone - Researcher Profile

Biography

Dr Andrew Gunstone is the Director of Research for the School of Applied Media & Social Sciences (SAMSS).

Andrew is a Senior Lecturer, Australian Indigenous Studies in SAMSS.

He has researched and published widely in the areas of Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Politics, particularly in relation to reconciliation, stolen wages and higher education policy. 

Andrew is the Foundation Editor of the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues.

Keywords

Australian Indigenous politics and history

Qualifications

PHD

Institution: University of Queensland

Year awarded: 2004

Publications

Books

Gunstone, A.R. (ed), 2012, Reconciliation in Regional Australia: Case Studies from Gippsland, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia.

Gunstone, A. (ed), 2010, A Decade of Despair: The Howard Government and Indigenous Affairs, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia.

Gunstone, A.R., Heckenberg, S.L.V., 2009, The Government Owes a Lot of Money to Our People: A History of Indigenous Stolen Wages in Victoria, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia.

Gunstone, A.R., 2009, Unfinished Business: The Australian Formal Reconciliation Process, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia.

Gunstone, A. (ed), 2008, History, Politics & Knowledge:Essays in Australian Indigenous Studies, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Gunstone, A.R., 2007, Unfinished Business: The Australian Formal Reconciliation Process, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Gunstone, A.R., 2012, Attitudes in Gippsland towards reconciliation, in Reconciliation in Regional Australia:Case Studies from Gippsland, eds Andrew Gunstone, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 5-33.

Gunstone, A.R., 2012, Indigenous peoples and stolen wages in Victoria, 1869-1957, in Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies II: Historical Engagements and Current Enterprises, eds Natasha Fijn, Ian Keen, Christopher Lloyd and Michael Pickering, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 181-195.

Gunstone, A.R., McGinn, I.M., 2012, Reconciliation groups in Gippsland, in Reconciliation in Regional Australia: Case Studies from Gippsland, eds Andrew Gunstone, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 153-166.

Gunstone, A.R., 2012, Reconciliation in Gippsland, in Reconciliation in Regional Australia: Case Studies from Gippsland, eds Andrew Gunstone, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-4.

Gunstone, A., 2010, Reconciliation and the Howard government, in A Decade of Despair: The Howard Government and Indigenous Affairs, eds Andrew Gunstone, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 75-105.

Gunstone, A., 2010, The Howard government and Indigenous affairs, in A Decade of Despair: The Howard Government and Indigenous Affairs, eds Andrew Gunstone, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-6.

Gunstone, A., 2010, Twenty years of failures: reconciliation in Australia from 1988 to 2008, in Southern Worlds - South Africa and Australia Compared, eds John Nieuwenhuysen and David Dunstan, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 146-160.

Gunstone, A.R., 2009, Afterword: reconciliation and commonwealth governments from 2003-2008, in Unfinished Business: The Australian Formal Reconciliation Process, eds Andrew Gunstone, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 304-310.

Gunstone, A.R., 2008, Australian Indigenous studies and Australian universities, in History, Politics and Knowledge: Essays in Australian Indigenous Studies, eds Andrew Gunstone, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. xx-xxvi.

Gunstone, A.R., 2008, The Australian reconciliation process: an analysis, in Pathways to Reconciliation: Between Theory and Practice, eds Philipa Rothfield, Cleo Fleming and Paul A Komesaroff, Ashgate, Aldershot Hampshire UK, pp. 169-178.

Gunstone, A., 2008, Unfinished business:the Australian reconciliation process from 1991-2000, in History, Politics & Knowledge:Essays in Australian Indigenous Studies, eds Andrew Gunstone, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 281-299.

Journal Articles

Gunstone, A.R., 2012, Indigenous education 1991-2000: documents, outcomes and governments, Australian Journal of Indigenous Education [P], vol 41, issue 2, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 75-84.

Gunstone, A.R., 2012, Reconciliation and Commonwealth Governments in the 21st century, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues [P], vol 15, issue 3, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 57-65.

Gunstone, A., 2011, Reconciliation and dialogue in regional Australia: a case study in East Gippsland, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues [P], vol 14, issue 2-3, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 133-150.

Short, D., Gunstone, A., 2011, Rejoinder to Tim Rowse, "the reforming state, the concerned public and Indigenous political actors", Australian Journal of Politics and History [E], vol 57, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, United Kingdom, pp. 262-266.

Gunstone, A., 2011, The impact of the Commonwealth Government's Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) framework on Australian Indigenous Studies, Kulumun: Journal of the Wollotuka Institute [P], vol 1, issue 1, Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, pp. 55-66.

Gunstone, A., 2010, A history of exclusion: Indigenous people and social security, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues [P], vol 13, issue 2, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, School of Applied Media and Social Sciences, Monash Uni, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 34-44.

Gunstone, A.R., 2009, Indigenous rights and the 1991-2000 Australian reconciliation process, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal [E], vol 1, issue 3, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 35-51.

Gunstone, A.R., Foley, D., 2009, The role of Indigenous studies journals in the discipline of Indigenous Studies, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues [P], vol 12, issue 1-4, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University Gippsland Campus, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 132-138.

Gunstone, A.R., 2009, Whiteness, Indigenous peoples and Australian universities, Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association eJournal [P], vol 5, issue 1, Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 1-8.

Gunstone, A.R., 2008, Australian university approaches to Indigenous policy, The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol 37, issue 5, University of Queensland, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 103-108.

Gunstone, A.R., 2008, Reconciliation and Australian Indigenous health in the 1990s: a failure of public policy, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, vol 5, issue 4, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 251-263.

Gunstone, A.R., 2008, The politics of saying sorry, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, vol 11, issue 2, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University Gippsland Campus, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 3-10.

Gunstone, A.R., 2007, Community involvement and education in the 1991-2000 Australian reconciliation process, The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol 36, issue -, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 39-48.

Gunstone, A.R., 2007, Reconciliation in East Gippsland, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, vol 10, issue 1, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 3-19.

Gunstone, A.R., 2007, 'These blokes are re-inventing the 19th century': the Howard Government's record on Indigenous Affairs 1996-2006, Journal of Indigenous Policy, vol 7, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 41-52.

Gunstone, A.R., 2006, Teaching Australian Indigenous studies to international students, Australian Studies, vol 19, issue 2, British Australian Studies Association, UK, pp. 7-18.

Gunstone, A.R., 2006, The Howard government's approach to the policy of indigenous self-determination, MAI Review, vol 1, issue 1, Nga Pae o te Margmatanga, The University of Auckland, Auckland New Zealand, pp. 1-3.

Gunstone, A.R., 2006, The impact of the Howard government upon the 1991-2000 formal Australian reconciliation process, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, vol 9, issue 2-3, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 55-69.

Gunstone, A.R., 2005, Unfinished business: the Australian reconciliation process from 1991 to 2000, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, vol 8, issue 3-4, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University, pp. 16-32.

Gunstone, A.R., 2003, The responses of Australian Governments to Indigenous challenges to the Australian State: 1967-2003, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, vol 6, issue 2, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, Australia, pp. 3-25.

Conference Proceedings

Gunstone, A.R., 2012, Reconciliation and the 'Great Australian Silence', The Refereed Proceedings of the 2012 Australian Political Studies Association Conference, 24 September 2012 to 26 September 2012, Australian Political Studies Association (APSA), Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-17.

Gunstone, A., 2011, Indigenous peoples and the Australian constitution, Directions and Intersections: Proceedings of the 2011 Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Assoication and Indigenous Studies Research Network Joint Conference, 7 December 2011 to 9 December 2011, Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, Australia, pp. 69-79.

Gunstone, A., 2011, The establishment of the 1991-2000 Australian reconciliation process, Australian Political Science Association Conference 2011, 26 September 2011 to 28 September 2011, The School of Politics and International Relations ANU, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 1-10.

Gunstone, A., 2010, The goals of the formal reconciliation process and Indigenous rights, 2010 Australian Political Studies Association Conference, 27 September 2010 to 29 September 2010, Australian Political Studies Association, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-10.

Gunstone, A.R., 2009, A history of the campaigns for an Indigenous Treaty, 1979-2009, Australian Political Studies Association Conference 2009, 27 September 2009 to 30 September 2009, Australian Political Studies Association, http://www.pol.mq.edu.au/apsa/index.html, pp. 1-13.

Gunstone, A.R., 2008, Human rights, Indigenous rights and reconciliation in Australia, Activating Human Rights and Peace: Universal Responsibility Conference 2008 Conference Proceedings, 1 July 2008 to 4 July 2008, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW Australia, pp. 146-152.

Gunstone, A.R., 2008, Over a decade of despair: the Howard Government and Indigenous Affairs 1996-2007, Australasian Political Science Association Conference 2008, 6 July 2008 to 9 July 2008, University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 1-12.

Gunstone, A.R., 2008, The failure of the Howard Government's 'practical' reconciliation policy, The Complexities of Racism: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on 'Racisms in the New World Order', 6 December 2007 to 7 December 2007, University of the Sunshine Coast, Caloundra Qld Australia, pp. 48-57.

Gunstone, A.R., 2007, Government policies and wider community attitudes towards Indigenous socio-economic disadvantage in the reconciliation decade, Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2007, 24 September 2007 to 26 September 2007, Australasian Political Studies Association, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-18.

Gunstone, A.R., 2007, The impact of whiteness on the 1991-2000 Australian reconciliation process, Proceedings of Historicising Whiteness Conference, 22 November 2006 to 24 November 2006, RMIT Publishing and University of Melbourne, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 400-407.

Gunstone, A.R., 2007, The wider Australian community's confusion and ignorance concerning the meanings of reconciliation, Aboriginal Studies: Making the Connections, 2 November 2006 to 3 November 2006, Aboriginal Studies Association, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 135-145.

Gunstone, A.R., 2006, The failure of reconciliation to address racist and ignorant attitudes in the wider community towards indigenous peoples, Proceedings of the International Conference on Racisms in the New World Order: Realities of Culture, Colour and Identity Conference, 8 December 2005 to 9 December 2005, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore Qld Australia, pp. 143-152.

Gunstone, A.R., 2006, The impact of nationalism upon the formal Australian reconciliation process, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 25 September 2006 to 27 September 2006, Australasian Political Studies Association, Newcastle NSW Australia, pp. 1-17.

Gunstone, A.R., 2005, Nationalism and the formal Australian reconciliation process, The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia - Refereed Proceedings from the UQ Australian Studies Centre Conference, 24 November 2004 to 26 November 2004, Australian Studies Centre (UQ) and National Centre for Australian Studies (Monash), http://acs.uq.edu.au/bodypolitic/, pp. 1-16.

Gunstone, A.R., 2005, The Australian reconciliation process: 1991-2000, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2005, 28 September 2005 to 30 September 2005, Australasian Political Studies Association, http://www.otago.ac.nz/politicalstudies/conferences/apsa05/apsa05.html, pp. 1-19.

Gunstone, A.R., 2004, Reconciliation, nationalism and the history wars, Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004, 29 September 2004 to 1 October 2004, Australasian Political Studies Association, http://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/, pp. 1-18.

Gunstone, A.R., 2000, An examination of the Indigenous policies of Australian Universities, Australian Indigenous Education Conference, 03/04/2000 - 07/04/2000, Edith Cowan University, Perth WA Australia, pp. 1-11.

Other

Gunstone, A.R., 2005, The formal Australian reconciliation process 1991-2000, National Planning Workshop 2005 - Reconciliation Australia, Reconciliation Australia, www.reconciliation.org.au.

Gunstone, A.R., 2004, The formal Australian Reconciliation Process 1991-2000.

Purdie, N., Tripcony, P., Boulton-Lewis, G., Fanshawe, J., Gunstone, A.R., 2000, Positive Self-Identity for Indigenous Students and its Relationship to School Outcomes, DETYA, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 1-71.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

AT RISK: CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS WOMEN'S BODIES AND CULTURE.

Supervisors:

Crinall, K (Main), Gunstone, A (Associate), Laming, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Addressing injustice: the role of indigenous sentencing courts.

Supervisors:

Gunstone, A (Main), Baker, D (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Mapping of Indigeneity in 'post-colonial' Australia.

Supervisors:

Gunstone, A (Main), Russell, L (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

What were the goals of the Northern Territory intervention and were these goals successful?.

Supervisors:

Gunstone, A (Main), Fenwick, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Wiradjuri elders: keeping our culture and history alive.

Supervisors:

Gunstone, A (Main), Thomson, A (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Mcginn, I.

Program of Study:

Commonwealth Aboriginal policy in the Northern Territory: 1911 - 1939. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Gunstone, A (Main), Hocking, J (Associate), Judd, B (Associate).