McGregor, Russell (2024) Book Review of "John Büsst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest" by Iain McCalman. Sydney, Australia, NewSouth, 2024. ISBN 9781742239026. Australian Policy and History, 26 July 2024.

McGregor, Russell (2024) Book review of "The Fin de Siecle Imagination in Australia" by Mark Hearn. London, UK, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. ISBN: 9781350291393. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 110 (1). pp. 101-103.

McGregor, Russell (2024) Enchantment by Birds: A history of birdwatching in 22 species. Scribe, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

McGregor, Russell (2024) On the wing: Holidays with the birds. Australian Birdlife, 13 (1). pp. 40-43.

McGregor, Russell (2024) Windows onto the wild. Openbook, Spring 2024. pp. 20-25.

McGregor, Russell (2023) The Hand that Feeds. Australian Birdlife, 12 (4). pp. 44-47.

McGregor, Russell (2023) Book review of "What Birdo Is That?: a Field Guide to Bird People" by Libby Robin. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2023. ISBN: 978-0522879346. Australian Birdlife, 12 (2). p. 56.

McGregor, Russell (2023) A Hymn to Biodiversity: Graham Pizzey's Field Guide. Australian Birdlife, 12 (2). pp. 32-35.

McGregor, Russell (2022) The First Field Guide. Australian Birdlife, 11 (3). p. 10.

McGregor, Russell (2022) Before Slater: A history of field guides to Australian birds to 1970. Australian Field Ornithology, 39. pp. 125-138.

McGregor, Russell (2022) J. A. Leach's Australian Bird Book: at the interface of science and recreation. Historical Records of Australian Science, 33 (2). pp. 97-109.

McGregor, Russell (2022) JA Leach: A Nature Influencer of his Time. Linnean Society of London: Blogs and Essays, 2 September 2022.

McGregor, Russell (2022) An oologist at Tinaroo: Sid Jackson’s 1908 expedition to north Queensland. North Queensland Naturalist, 52. pp. 19-33.

McGregor, Russell (2021) Book review of "Where Shadows Have Fallen: the unhappy descent of Henry Kendall" by Adrian Mitchell. Wakefield Press, Mile End, SA, Australia, 2020. ISBN: 9781743057483. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 107 (2). pp. 251-252.

McGregor, Russell (2021) A fleeting return. Openbook, Spring 21. pp. 64-67.

McGregor, Russell (2021) Paradise lost. Australian Birdlife, 10 (1). pp. 34-35.

McGregor, Russell (2021) 100 years ago, this man discovered an exquisite parrot thought to be extinct. What came next is a tragedy we must not repeat. The Conversation, 10 December 2021.

McGregor, Russell (2021) Alec Chisholm and the extinction of the Paradise Parrot. Historical Records of Australian Science, 32 (2). pp. 156-167.

McGregor, Russell (2021) Everyday enchantment: a short history of birdwatching. Australian Birdlife, 10 (3). pp. 28-31.

McGregor, Russell (2021) Mateship with Nature: nationalism and conservation in the writings of Alec Chisholm. Environment and History, 27 (3). pp. 399-420.

McGregor, Russell (2021) The tragedy of the Paradise Parrot. Arcadia, Summer (27).

McGregor, Russell (2020) Book review: Governing natives: indirect rule and settler colonialism in Australia’s north, by Ben Silverstein, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-7849-9526-3. History Australia, 17 (3). pp. 581-582.

McGregor, Russell (2020) Disputing the Territory: the Payne-Fletcher Report of 1937. Australian Historical Studies, 51 (4). pp. 383-400.

McGregor, Russell (2020) What 'The Birdman of Wahroonga' and other historic birdwatchers can teach us about cherishing wildlife. The Conversation, 6 August 2020.

McGregor, Russell (2020) The garden of birds. Australian Garden History, 31 (3). pp. 11-13.

White, Patrick, McGregor, Russell, and Gertz, Janine (2019) 'New Bradfield': rerouting rivers to recapture a pioneering spirit. The Conversation, 27 November 2019.

McGregor, Russell (2019) Book review of "Nature Study and Environmental Concern: a history of school nature study in Australia" by D.Kass. London, UK, Routledge, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-1386-505-1. History Australia, 16 (2). pp. 420-421.

McGregor, Russell (2019) Idling in green places: a life of Alec Chisholm. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne.

McGregor, Russell (2019) Mateship with birds: an Australian plea for conservation. Arcadia, Autumn 2019 (42).

McGregor, Russell (2019) "People the North": nation-building in 1960s Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 65 (2). pp. 215-229.

McGregor, Russell (2018) Book review of "The Good Country: the Djadja Wurrung, the settlers and the protectors" by B. Attwood. Melbourne, Australia, Monash University Publishing, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-925523-06-5. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64 (1). pp. 142-143.

McGregor, Russell (2018) Book review of "Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901" by Tim Rowse. Sydney, NSW, Australia, UNSW Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-74223-557-8. Australian Historical Studies, 49 (2). pp. 266-267.

McGregor, Russell (2017) Encyclopaedia for a nation. SL, 10 (2). pp. 16-19.

Cadet-James, Yvonne, James, Robert Andrew, McGinty, Sue, and McGregor, Russell (2017) Gugu Badhun: people of the Valley of Lagoons. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

McGregor, Russell (2017) "Right wrongs, write Yes": what was the 1967 referendum all about? The Conversation, 26 May 2017. pp. 1-4.

McGregor, Russell (2017) Book review of "Making a Difference: fifty years of Indigenous programs at Monash University" by Rani Kerin. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Monash University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-9253-7724-8. Aboriginal History, 41. pp. 217-218.

McGregor, Russell (2017) Excursions through emptiness: interwar travel writing on Northern Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 41 (4). pp. 421-434.

White, Patrick, and McGregor, Russell (2016) The keys to unlock Northern Australia have already been cut. The Conversation, 13 December 2016. pp. 1-7.

McGregor, Russell (2016) Making the Rainforest Aboriginal: Tindale and Birdsell's foray into deep time. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, 10. pp. 9-21.

McGregor, Russell, and Fuary, Maureen (2016) Walter Edmund Roth: ethnographic collector and Aboriginal protector. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, 10. pp. 43-58.

McGregor, Russell (2016) Book review of "Just Relations: the story of Mary Bennett's crusade for Aboriginal rights" by A. Holland, Perth, WA, Australia, University of Western Australia Publishing, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-74258-687-8. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 62 (3). pp. 476-477.

Greer, Shelley, Henry, Rosita, McGregor, Russell, and Wood, Michael (2016) Aboriginal artefacts, collectors and the wet tropics: an introduction. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, 10. pp. 1-7.

McGregor, Russell (2016) Book review of "The Politics of Identity: who counts as Aboriginal today?" by B. Carlson. Canberra, ACT, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-922059-96-3. Aboriginal History, 40. pp. 339-340.

McGregor, Russell (2016) Book review of "Warrior" by Libby Connors. Sydney, NSW, Australia, Allen & Unwin, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-76011-048-2. Australian Historical Studies, 47 (1). pp. 166-168.

McGregor, Russell (2016) Environment, Race and Nationhood in Australia: revisiting the empty north. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, USA.

McGregor, Russell (2015) On the Northern Treadmill. Australian Policy Online. pp. 1-6.

McGregor, Russell (2015) Book review of "Van Diemen's Land: an Aboriginal history" by M. Johnson and I. McFarlane. Sydney, NSW, New South Publishing, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-7422-3421-2. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (3). pp. 450-451.

McGregor, Russell (2014) Book review of "The Black War: fear, sex and resistance in Tasmania" by Nicholas Clements. Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 2014. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 60 (3). pp. 466-467.

McGregor, Russell, and Brennan, Claire (2014) No clear track. History Australia, 11 (1). pp. 230-232.

McGregor, Russell (2014) Book review of "Conspiracy of Silence" by Timothy Bottoms. Sydney: Australia, Allen and Unwin, 2013. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 60 (1). pp. 133-134.

McGregor, Russell (2013) Review of "Great Central State: the foundation of the Northern Territory" by Jack Cross, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, South Australia. History Australia, 10 (2). pp. 264-266.

McGregor, Russell (2013) Developing the north, defending the nation? The Northern Australia Development Committee, 1945–1949. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 59 (1). pp. 33-46.

McGregor, Russell (2013) Rainforests of North Queensland. Queensland Historical Atlas, January 2013. pp. 1-3.

McGregor, Russell (2013) Northern optimism: the preliminary scientific expedition to the Northern Territory, 1911. Northern Territory Historical Studies, 24. pp. 40-51.

McGregor, Russell (2012) Get a life: academic reflections on the dysfunctions of academia. LiNQ, 39. pp. 131-133.

McGregor, Russell (2012) Book review of "A wild history: life and death on the Victoria River frontier" by Darrell Lewis, Monash University Publishing, Clayton, VIC, Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58 (3). p. 453.

McGregor, Russell (2012) Drawing the local colour line: white Australia and the tropical north. Journal of Pacific History, 47 (3). pp. 329-346.

McGregor, Russell (2012) A dog in the manger: White Australia and its vast empty spaces. Australian Historical Studies, 43 (2). pp. 157-173.

McGregor, Russell (2012) Race matters: changing the Australian Constitution. Australian Policy Online, 11 May 2012.

McGregor, Russell (2012) Book review of "Beyond white guilt: the real challenge for black-white relations in Australia" by Sarah Maddison, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Labour History (102). pp. 228-229.

McGregor, Russell (2012) Book review of "The protectors: a journey through whitefella past" by Stephen Gray, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Labour History (102). pp. 226-227.

McGregor, Russell (2012) Book review of "A different inequality: the politics of debate about remote Aboriginal Australia" by Diane Austin-Broos, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58 (1). pp. 136-137.

McGregor, Russell (2012) Book review of "Pygmonia: in search of the secret land of the pygmies:" by Peter McAllister, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, Australia. Aboriginal History, 36. pp. 217-218.

McGregor, Russell (2011) Book Review of "Throwing off the cloak: reclaiming self-reliance in Torres Strait" by Elizabeth Osborne, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 57 (1). pp. 141-142.

McGregor, Russell (2011) Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian nation. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Erckenbrecht, Corinna, Fuary, Maureen, Greer, Shelley, Henry, Rosita, McGregor, Russell, and Wood, Michael (2010) Artefacts and collectors in the tropics of North Queensland. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 21 (3). pp. 350-366.

Anderson, Warwick, Buschmann, Rainer F., McGregor, Russell, Douglas, Bronwen, and Ballard, Chris (2010) Foreign bodies. Journal of Pacific History, 45 (2). pp. 265-275.

Mcgregor, Russell (2010) Whiteness in the tropics. Queensland Historical Atlas, 1.

McGregor, Russell (2009) Another Nation: Aboriginal activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Australian Historical Studies, 40 (3). pp. 343-360.

McGregor, Russell (2009) One people: Aboriginal assimilation and the White Australia ideal. History Australia, 6 (1). 03.1-03.17.

McGregor, Russell (2009) 27 May 1967: the 1967 referendum: an uncertain consensus. In: Crotty, Martin, and Roberts, David Andrew, (eds.) Turning Points in Australian History. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 171-183.

McGregor, Russell (2009) Arguing about assimilation: Aboriginal policy and advocacy in Australia. In: Attwood, Bain, and Griffiths, Tom, (eds.) Frontier, Race, Nation: Henry Reynolds and Australian history. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 260-287.

McGregor, Russell (2009) Review of Judith Raftery, not part of the Public: Non-indigenous Policies and the Health of Indigenous South Australians, 1836-1973. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 44 (1). pp. 109-111.

McGregor, Russell (2008) Book review of "Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970" by Anna Haebich, Monash University Press, Victoria. History Australia, 5 (3). 93.1-93.3.

McGregor, Russell (2008) The white man in the tropics. In: Fielding, Trisha, (ed.) Sir Robert Philp Lecture Series. Townsville City Council, Townsville, QLD, Australia, - .

McGregor, Russell (2008) An absent negative: the 1967 referendum. History Australia: Journal of the Australian Historical Association , 5 (2). 44.1-44.9.

McGregor, Russell (2008) Book review of "The 1967 Referendum: Race, Power and the Australian Constitution, by Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus, 2nd edition, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra. Aboriginal History, 32. pp. 191-192.

McGregor, Russell (2007) Book review of "Recognising Native Title: The Mabo Vase and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism" By Peter H. Russell, UNSW Press, Sydney, Australia. History Australia, 4 (2). 60.1-60.3.

McGregor, Russell (2007) Looking across the Tasman: New Zealand exemplars in Australian indigenous affairs, 1920s-1970s. History Compass, 5 (2). pp. 406-426.

Grimshaw, Patricia, and McGregor, Russell (2007) Collisions of Cultures and Identities: settlers and Indigenous Peoples. RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

McGregor, Russell (2007) Making one people: whiteness, Australian nationhood and Aboriginal assimilation. In: Proceedings of the Historicising Whiteness Conference. pp. 71-79. From: Historicising Whiteness Conference, 22-24 November 2006, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

McGregor, Russell (2006) The necessity of Britishness: ethno-cultural roots of Australian nationalism. Nations and Nationalism, 12 (3). pp. 493-511.

McGregor, Russell (2006) Degrees of fatalism: discourses on racial extinction in Australia and New Zealand. In: Grimshaw, Patricia, and McGregor, Russell, (eds.) Collisions of Cultures and Identities: settlers and Indigenous peoples. RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 194-208.

McGregor, Russell (2005) Avoiding 'Aborigines': Paul Hasluck and the Northern Territory Welfare Ordinance, 1953. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 51 (4). pp. 513-529.

McGregor, Russell (2005) Assimilation as acculturation: A.P. Elkin on the dynamics of cultural change. In: Rowse, Tim, (ed.) Contesting Assimilation. Symposia Series . API Network, Perth, WA, Australia, pp. 169-183.

McGregor, Russell (2005) Nation and Assimilation: Continuity and Discontinuity in Aboriginal Affairs in the 1950s. In: Wells, Julie T., Dewar, Mickey, and Parry, Suzanne, (eds.) Modern Frontier: Aspects of the 1950s in Australia's Northern Territory. Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin, Australia, pp. 17-31.

McGregor, Russell (2004) North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia's North [Book Review]. Queensland Review, 11 (2). pp. 107-108.

McGregor, Russell (2004) Develop the north: Aborigines, environment and Australian nationhood in the 1930s. Journal of Australian Studies, 28 (81). pp. 33-45.

McGregor, Russell (2004) Governance, not genocide: Aboriginal assimilation in the Postwar Era. In: Moses, A. Dirk, (ed.) Genocide and Settler Society : frontier violence and stolen indigenous children in Australian history. Studies on War and Genocide, 6 . Berghahn Books, New York, USA, pp. 290-311.

Mcgregor, Russell (2002) 'Breed out the colour' or the importance of being white. Australian Historical Studies, 33 (120). pp. 286-302.

Mcgregor, Russell (2002) Assimilationists contest assimilation: T G H Strehlow and A P Elkin on Aboriginal policy. Journal of Australian Studies, 26 (75). pp. 43-50.

McGregor, Russell (2001) From Old Testament to New: A. P. Elkin on christian conversion and cultural assimilation. Journal of Religious History, 25 (1). pp. 39-55.

McGregor, Russell (2001) Book Review of "Loving Protection?: Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights 1919-1939 by Fiona Paisley. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2001. pp. 79-80.

McGregor, Russell (1999) Wards, words and citizens: A.P. Elkin and Paul Hasluck on assimilation. Oceania, 69 (4). pp. 243-259.

McGregor, Russell (1999) Bill Harney's yarns. Journal of Northern Territory History, 10. pp. 25-29.

McGregor, Russell (1998) Book review of "'Living Under the Act': Taroom Aboriginal Reserve 1911-1927" by Scott L'Oste-Brown and Luke Godwin, with Gordon Henry, Ted Mitchell and Vera Tyson, Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage, Brisbane, Australia. Aboriginal History, 22. pp. 278-280.

McGregor, Russell (1998) Book review of "Arguments about Aborigines: Australia and the evolution of social anthropology" by L.R. Hiatt, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Aboriginal History, 22. pp. 280-282.

McGregor, Russell (1998) Book review of "From the Ruins of Colonialism: history as social memory" by Chris Healy, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, Australia. Aboriginal History, 22. pp. 276-278.

McGregor, Russell (1997) Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the doomed race theory, 1880-1939. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

McGregor, Russell (1996) An Aboriginal Caucasian: some uses for racial kinship in early twentieth century Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1996 (1). pp. 11-20.

McGregor, Russell (1996) Book review of "The Aboriginal Tasmanians" by Lyndall Ryan, Second edition, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards. Aboriginal History, 20. pp. 229-230.

McGregor, Russell (1996) Intelligent parasitism: A.P. Elkin and the rhetoric of assimilation. Journal of Australian Studies, 20 (50-51). pp. 118-130.

McGregor, Russell (1995) The Aboriginal reserves debate of the inter-war years. Journal of The Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 15 (11). pp. 545-552.

McGregor, Russell (1994) The clear categories of Olive Pink. Oceania, 65 (1). pp. 4-17.

McGregor, Russell (1994) Book review of "Race Relations in Colonial Queensland: a history of exclusion, exploitation and extermination" by Raymond Evans, Kay Saunders and Kathryn Cronin, third edition, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Australia. Aboriginal History, 18 (2). pp. 199-200.

McGregor, Russell (1993) The Doomed Race: A scientific axiom of the late nineteenth century. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 39 (1). pp. 14-22.

McGregor, Russell (1993) The concept of primitivity in the early anthropological writings of A.P. Elkin. Aboriginal History, 17. pp. 95-104.

McGregor, Russell (1993) Civilisation or extinction: the destiny of the Aborigines in the white Australian imagination, c.1880-1939. PhD thesis, James Cook University of North Queensland.