Anthologies | Smantha Faulkner, Ali Drummond

Family is one of the most important things in Sam Faulkner's life. Ali Drummond is Sam Faulkner's grandfather, and this is his story.Ali Drummond has had an extraordinary life, by any standards. Orphaned when young, Ali took to a life at sea aged…

Anthologies | Paula Shaw

Arriving in a tiny eight-street Aboriginal community of Aurukun in far north Queensland, Paula had little idea what to expect. Seven Seasons in Aurukun is her very personal story of teaching at the local school and making a life for herself in a…

Anthologies | Yasmine Musharbash

Yuendumu Everyday: Contemporary life in remote Aboriginal Australia explores contemporary daily life in the remote central Australian Aboriginal settlement of Yuendumu, 290 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs.It analyses an everyday shaped…

Anthologies | Hannah Rachel Bell

What do the artistic works of acclaimed author Tim Winton and eminent Ngarinyin lawman Bungal (David ) Mowaljarlai have in common? According to Hannah Rachel Bell they both reflect sacred relationship with the natural world, the biological…

Anthologies | Peter Read

Tripping Over Feathers is the story of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams, an Aboriginal woman who was taken from her mother as a baby and put in a home for white girls. This affected Joy until her death, shown by author Peter Read as he re-creates key…

Anthologies | Concerned Australians

This Is What We Said provides an original account of the depth of frustration and despair of many Aboriginal people affected by the Northern Territory Emergency Intervention (NTER).The book uses pictures and quotations taken from footage of actual…

Fiction, novels | Marie Munkara

Every Secret Thing is a nothing-is-sacred misadventure that crackles with Marie Munkara’s famous acerbic humour. Set in the early days of missionary activity in far northern Australia, Every Secret Thing follows the Bush Mob as they try to evade…

Anthologies | Anita Heiss

I'm not racist, but… is a collection of social observations, thoughts and conversations the author has had over 15 years travelling Australia and the world; as a tourist, as a writer, as an academic, and always as a proud, strong, contemporary…

Anthologies | Andrew Stojanovksi

How The Mt Theo Program Beat The Curse of Petrol Sniffing. In 1994, over 60 young people, more than half the teenage population in the Central Australian community of Yuendumu, were sniffing petrol—threatening their lives and the future of their…

Sport | Andrew McLeod

Adelaide Crows superstar Andrew McLeod is one of the greatest AFL players of the modern era. Since his debut in the AFL in 1995, he has had a triumphant career, winning two premierships and two Norm Smith medals, and been recognised with countless…

Politics | Sarah Maddison

Why do Aboriginal communities struggle so hard to be heard in mainstream politics? How do remote and urban communities respond to frequent dramatic shifts in federal and state Aboriginal policies?Since the early 1990s Aboriginal Australia has…

Politics | Jon Altman, Melinda Hinkson

In 2007 the Australian government declared that remote Aboriginal communities were in crisis and launched the Northern Territory Intervention. This dramatic move occurred against a backdrop of vigorous debate among policy makers, academics,…

Spirituality and poetry | Robert Kenny

The Lamb Enters the Dreaming traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people, who was born as the first pastoralists were driving cattle and sheep into Victoria's Wimmera region. In their wake came Christian missionaries, who were just…

Spirituality and poetry | Samuel Wagan Watson

Smoke Encrypted Whispers is a collection of stories and essays from West Australian writers. Exhilarating road poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties are the hallmarks of this popular young poet. Smoke Encrypted Whispers contains poems from all…

Spirituality and poetry | Noel Loos

Arthur Malcolm, a stocky Aboriginal man, was in tears as the cavalcade drove towards Yarrabah Aboriginal community. It was October 1985 and the Yarrabah people were cheering him as he returned to the community as their new bishop, the first…

Spirituality and poetry | Ali Cobby Eckermann

Little Bit Long Time is Ali Cobby Eckermann's first poetry collection. It takes as its subject the difficult history of Indigenous people since colonial times. Both the four decades of her own often hard and confronting personal experience, and the…

Textbooks, teaching, studies | Les Bursill, Mary Jacobs

Dharawal---The story of the Dharawal-speaking people of Southern Sydney has become quite a success story and is being taken up as a textbook for most public schools in the area of Southern Sydney. Dharawal gives an intimate insight into the life…

Textbooks, teaching, studies | Rosalind Kidd

As the first academic researcher to gain almost unlimited access to documents held by the Department of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs, Rosalind Kidd has spent more than 15 months reading and researching original material of the department from…

Textbooks, teaching, studies | Mudrooroo

I bought Us Mob because its subtitle was intriguing: "History, Culture, Struggle: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia". This book, I thought, is the long looked for alternative to all those other books introducing to Aboriginal culture, but…