Tony Birch
Title
Tony Birch
Rights
Image used with permission, all rights remain with the author.
Birth Date
1957
Birthplace
Narm, Melbourne, Australia
Primary Sources
Birch, T. (2023). Women & Children. University of Queensland Press. https://www.uqp.com.au/books/women-children
Birch, T. (2021). Dark as last night. University of Queensland Press.
Birch, T. (2021). Whisper songs. University of Queensland Press.
Birch, T. (2019). 'There is no axe': Identity, story and a sombrero. Meanjin. Accessed August 23, 2022,
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/there-is-no-axe-identity-story-and-a-sombrero/.
Birch, T. (2019). Sin. Cultural Studies Review, 25(2),305-306. https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v25i2.6934
Birch, T (2014) The Last Refuge of the 'Un-Australian', In Neale, T, McKinnon, C and Vincent, E, eds.History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies. (pp. 198-207) University of Technology Sydney ePress.
Birch, T. (2013). The Trouble with History. In A. Clark & P. Ashton (Eds.), Australian History Now (pp. 232–250). UNSW Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkq7z.18
Birch, T. (2007). ‘The invisible fire’: Indigenous sovereignty, history and responsibility. In A. Moreton-Robinson (Eds.), Sovereign subjects: Indigenous sovereignty matters. Allen & Unwin.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003117353-11/invisible-fire-indigenous-sovereignty-history-responsibility-tony-birch
Birch, T. (2003). ‘Nothing has changed’: the making and unmaking of Koori Culture. In I. Anderson, M. Grossman, M. Langton & A. Moreton-Robinson (Eds.), Blacklines: Contemporary critical writing by Indigenous Australians (pp. 143–154). Carlton: Melbourne University Press.
Birch, T. (2001).Returning to Country, In Rasmussen, A Museum for the PeopleA History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessors, 1854–2000, pp. 397–400. Scribe Publications, Melbourne.
Birch, T. (2021). Dark as last night. University of Queensland Press.
Birch, T. (2021). Whisper songs. University of Queensland Press.
Birch, T. (2019). 'There is no axe': Identity, story and a sombrero. Meanjin. Accessed August 23, 2022,
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/there-is-no-axe-identity-story-and-a-sombrero/.
Birch, T. (2019). Sin. Cultural Studies Review, 25(2),305-306. https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v25i2.6934
Birch, T (2014) The Last Refuge of the 'Un-Australian', In Neale, T, McKinnon, C and Vincent, E, eds.History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies. (pp. 198-207) University of Technology Sydney ePress.
Birch, T. (2013). The Trouble with History. In A. Clark & P. Ashton (Eds.), Australian History Now (pp. 232–250). UNSW Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkq7z.18
Birch, T. (2007). ‘The invisible fire’: Indigenous sovereignty, history and responsibility. In A. Moreton-Robinson (Eds.), Sovereign subjects: Indigenous sovereignty matters. Allen & Unwin.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003117353-11/invisible-fire-indigenous-sovereignty-history-responsibility-tony-birch
Birch, T. (2003). ‘Nothing has changed’: the making and unmaking of Koori Culture. In I. Anderson, M. Grossman, M. Langton & A. Moreton-Robinson (Eds.), Blacklines: Contemporary critical writing by Indigenous Australians (pp. 143–154). Carlton: Melbourne University Press.
Birch, T. (2001).Returning to Country, In Rasmussen, A Museum for the PeopleA History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessors, 1854–2000, pp. 397–400. Scribe Publications, Melbourne.
Secondary Sources
Masel, C., & Ryan, M. (2016). Place, History and Story: Tony Birch and the Yarra River. Australian Literary Studies, 31(2).
https://doi.org/10.20314/als.00776e89d0
Birch, T., & Sefton-Rowston, A. (2017). ‘You’ll be great, but only if you work your arse off’: An interview with Tony Birch. Overland. Accessed August 23, 2022
https://overland.org.au/2017/03/youll-be-great-but-only-if-you-work-your-arse-off-an-interview-with-tony-birch/
Hokari, M. (2011). Gurindji Journey: A Japanese historian in the outback. UNSW Press. https://unsw.press/books/gurindji-journey/
https://doi.org/10.20314/als.00776e89d0
Birch, T., & Sefton-Rowston, A. (2017). ‘You’ll be great, but only if you work your arse off’: An interview with Tony Birch. Overland. Accessed August 23, 2022
https://overland.org.au/2017/03/youll-be-great-but-only-if-you-work-your-arse-off-an-interview-with-tony-birch/
Hokari, M. (2011). Gurindji Journey: A Japanese historian in the outback. UNSW Press. https://unsw.press/books/gurindji-journey/
Extra Resources
Birch, T. (2024, April 24) Counter-narratives from the colonial archive: Tony Birch on the writing of Kim Scott (theconversation.com) The Converstation
Brasch, N. & Birch, T. (2017). Tony Birch, The Garret: Writers on writers podcast, episode 10. March 16, Accessed August 23, 2022.
https://thegarretpodcast.com/tony-birch/
Brasch, N. & Birch, T. (2017). Tony Birch, The Garret: Writers on writers podcast, episode 10. March 16, Accessed August 23, 2022.
https://thegarretpodcast.com/tony-birch/
Collection
Citation
“Tony Birch,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed July 7, 2026, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/99.