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Paul Roy
A Dying Shame examines the desperate situation of Aboriginal health in Australia.
Aboriginal health has always been an area neglected by Australian governments. Millions of dollars are needed to bring Aboriginal people on par with other…
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Rachel Landers
A Northern Town is the story of racism in Kempsey, a town in New South Wales. This powerful documentary explores the troubled history of the town, from a horrific massacre of Aboriginal people in 1838, to the brutal Kinchela Aboriginal boys'…
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Liam Campbell
Aboriginal Rules offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the grassroots Aboriginal football experience that you may have heard about, but never witnessed before.
Aboriginal Rules follows a year in the life of the Yuendumu Magpies Football Team as…
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Martha Ansara
In 1989 a dispute over the redevelopment of the Old Swan Brewery on the Sacred Grounds of the Waugul, Kings Park, Perth, convulsed the politics of Western Australia.
Its lessons are important for all who are concerned about Aboriginal rights and…
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Baz Lurmann
Australia tells the story of an English aristocrat lady who in northern Australia at the beginning of the second world war, travels to Australia to sell the inherited huge cattle station 'Faraway Downs'. She also wants to check up on her husband who…
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Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia, Blaze Kwaymullina (eds)
Heartsick for Country is a collection of stories and essays from West Australian writers.
Sally Morgan from the Pilbara region reflects on the early contact between Europeans and her Indigenous people. Her aunty recalls when the first saw a man on…
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John Ogden
With Portraits From a Land Without People John Ogden created a book which is a repository of images, a necessarily limited extract from over 300,000 photographs he sampled.The book comes with a foreword by Patrick Dodson, Australian of the Year…
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Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimara)
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence is about one of the dark chapters of Aboriginal Australian history: The Stolen Generations. The "Aboriginal Protection Act" of 1897 allowed the authorities "to cause every Aboriginal within any district [...] to be…
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Boori (Monty) Pryor
Pryor starts his book with a shocker: He lost a brother, sister and a nephew within 14 years of his life. And yet this is an important chapter because many Aboriginal people face a similar fate.Pryor takes you on a journey through his life. The…
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Stuart Rintoul (ed)
Australia's Aboriginal peoples had no written language - everything they knew was passed on by word of mouth. Hence they developed an superb memory, a memory which becomes Rintoul's source of information.
His book contains interviews he had with…
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John Danalis
John Danalis grew up with an Aboriginal skull sitting on the mantelpiece of his family's home. This is the story of the journey he undertakes when he decides to return the skull to its traditional owners.This mission has a profound effect on his…
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Gordon Briscoe
Racial Folly spans several decades of the author's life and some of the many major events in Indigenous history he was involved in.
Briscoe's grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This…
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Ronnie Summers
Ronnie: Tasmanian Songman is the heartwarming story of musician, storyteller and craftsman, Ronnie Summers as he recalls the freedom of growing up Cape Barren Island and how the music passed on by his uncles and the island's old fellas has shaped…
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Neil Willmett
How to Start a Successful Aboriginal Business in Australia is the first book written for and targeted at Aboriginal people wishing to start-up a small business.Neil Willmett is a successful Aboriginal business owner who included in the book useful…
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Indigenous Etchings—Black and Sexy presents some of the best contemporary writing and art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from around Australia.
Discover the story of Payback Records, an Indigenous hip hop label founded by Essendon…
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Jill McDougall, Jenny Taylor (illustr.)
Anna The Goanna is a collection of poems written to reflect the real world, dreams and imaginings of Aboriginal children.
It is a wonderful introduction to Indigenous culture now read by students of all skin colours across Australia.
Aboriginal…
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May L. O'Brien, Sue Wyatt (illustr.)
As you look up into the sky at night, you can see many stars. The Wongutha people of the Eastern Goldfields area in Western Australia tell stories about the stars explaining how the stars came to be where they are. Some stars are grouped together…
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Diane Lucas, Ken Searle (illustr.)
Join Diane Lucas and Ken Searle as they walk through the bush of northern Australia. Follow the seasonal calendar of the Gundjeihmi-speaking people of the Murrumburr clan of Kakadu.
"This is a story that has got to be told to children so they know…
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Kirra Somerville, Grace Fielding (illustr.)
The Lizard Gang is a tale about three lizards who argue about who is the best until they recognise that they are a team.The Lizard Gang was written by Kirra, a descendant of the Martu people of the Western Desert in Western Australia, when she was…
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Patricia Wrightson
High in The Rocks Of Honey, according to Aboriginal legend, Warrimai the Club Thrower hid a stone axe which he believed to be cursed.Barney Willis, his Aboriginal friend Eustace and the strange, fey child, Winnie Bates, are determined to find the…
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Trish Albert
First Australians: Plenty Stories is a collaboration between the National Museum of Australia and educational book publisher Pearson Australia to provide primary classrooms with a comprehensive resource to successfully implement Australian…
