CDU Researcher Profile

• Research interests
• Publications
• Current projects
• Recent completions supervised

Research Interests

Bill's research interests include:

• Northern Territory history and politics, in particular, police and administrative history of Northern Australia and the politics of North Australia.
• Currently working on a political biography of a former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, and a history of the Territory insurance office.

Recent Publications

Books

1. Wilson, W. (2003). To be faithful true and brave: A history of st john ambulance 1928 - 2002. : St John Ambulance.
2. Wilson, W. (2002). Forthcoming to be faithful, True and Brave: A History of St John Ambulance in the Northern Territory. St John Ambulance (NT), Darwin, Australia.
3. Wilson, W. (2001). A Force Apart: A History of the Northern Territory Police 1870-1926. Peacock Press, Sydney.

Book chapters

1. Wilson, B. and O'Brien, J. (2004) Seventy-Five Years On:  Revisiting the Coniston Massacre. In Carment, D. (Ed), Northern Encounters, New Directions in North Australian History (pp25-46) Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia: Charles Darwin University Press.
2. Wilson, B. and O'Brien, J. (2004) Seventy-Five Years On:  Revisiting the Coniston Massacre. In Carment, D. (Ed), Northern Encounters, New Directions in North Australian History (pp25-46) Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia: Charles Darwin University Press.
3. Wilson, W. (2002). Policing in 1901. In: Mearns and Barter (eds.). Progressing Backwards: the NT in 1901. Historical Society of the NT, Darwin, Australia. pp 75-86.
4. Wilson, W. (1999). Police Trackers, Myth and Reality. In: Austin, T. and Parry, S. Connection and Disconnection. Northern Territory University Press, Darwin, Australia.
5. Wilson, W. (2001). Stupor in paradise: drunkenness, disorder and drug offences in the Northern Territory 1870 - 1926 . In: Enders, M. and Dupont, B. Policing the Lucky Country. Hawkins Press.
   

Journal articles

1. Wilson, B. and O'Brien, J. (2004) 'To infuse an universal terror': a reappraisal of the Coniston killings.  Aboriginal History, 27 (2003), pp59-76.
2. Wilson, W. and Carment, D. (2002). Northern Territory July - December 2001. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48 (2), pp 281-294.
3. Wilson, W. and Carment, D. (2002). Northern Territory Administrative Issues. The Journal of Public Administration, March 2002.
4. Wilson, W. and Carment, D. (2002). The Northern Territory Election 2001. The Journal of Territory History, 2002.
5. Wilson, W. (2000). Katherine 1998: Appeals and Self Sufficiency - Lessons for the Future. The Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Autumn 2000.
6. Wilson, W. (1998). Background of the Origins of the Northern Territory Police. The Drum, The Publication of the Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services, June 1998.
   

Biographical entries

1. 'Ronald (Peter) McAulay: A Biography', in David Carment and Helen Wilson. Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography, Volume Three, 1996.
2. Six entries prepared for the Mining Hall of Fame display at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.
   

Conference papers

1. A Disorderly Frontier: An Analysis of Drunkenness, Drugs and Social Disorder in the Northern Territory 1870 to 1926, History of Crime, Policing and Punishment, Institute of Criminology and Charles Sturt University, Canberra, 2000.

Current Projects

Recent Completions Supervised