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Arts
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Article
Learn about Australia's first Aboriginal theatre company, founded in 1972, and other theatres that came after it.
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Economy
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For too long Aboriginal economic participation was limited. Australia's mining boom opens a unique opportunity for Aboriginal economy to catch up—if it's done the right way.
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History
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Larissa Behrendt
This Australian Screen Classic is about the movie Rabbit-Proof Fence based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara.The 2002 film tells the story of Doris Pilkingtons mother, the then 14-year-old Molly Craig, her sister…
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Land
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The Aboriginal land rights movement started in 1966 with a demand for better wages. Ten years later the first Aboriginal land rights act secured Aboriginal people's rights to land.
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Textbooks, teaching, studies
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Christos Tsiolkas, Gideon Haigh, Alexis Wright
Three acclaimed writers explore the crucial issues facing contemporary Australia: fear, prejudice and tolerance.Christos Tsiolkas questions why the notion of tolerance has replaced the language of justice, equality and rights in today's political…
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Children
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Sylvia Emmerton, Jaquanna Elliott (illus.)
A walking trip from the suburbs to the beach. The words and pictures are compiled into an engaging lyrical story children will love.The late Sylvia Emmerton who was a primary teacher turned her memories of growing up in North Queensland into a…
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Felicity Collins, Therese Davis
Australian Cinema After Mabo is the first comprehensive study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s.
Using the 1992 Mabo decision as a starting point, it looks at how the Mabo decision, where the founding doctrine of terra nullius was…
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Anthologies
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John Pilger
This study takes the reader beyond the euphemistic and romantic popular misconceptions of Australia to reveal the often invisible past and the present subterfuge of the country.
John Pilger recognises that since its very beginning the history of…
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Politics
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Written in 1879, Australia's national anthem has finally been adapted to reference Aboriginal history. But should we replace it entirely? And what do Aboriginal people think?
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Land
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Signed by 1,000 Aboriginal people, the 1972 Larrakia petition is one of the most important documents in the history of their struggle for land rights.
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Textbooks, teaching, studies
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Minoru Hokari
Written by a young Japanese scholar who lived among the Gurindji people of Northern Australia for a year, researching and recording their view of history, Gurindji Journey has been posthumously published in English, 7 years after his sadly early…
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Anthologies
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Margaret Kemarre Turner
Written from the heart of Australia's central deserts by respected Arrernte elder Margaret Kemarre Turner, this account explains the Australian Aboriginal approach to kinship in personal and poetic terms.Revealing a sophisticated and robust culture…
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Arts
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Claus Volkenandt, Christian Kaufmann (eds)
Australian Aboriginal art is increasingly drawing the attention of international audiences, in part because of the amazing stories the artists tell of human creativity.
John Mawurndjul is one of several Aboriginal artists whose work is collected…
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Richard Frankland
Harry's War is an award-winning film focusing on the life of a young Aboriginal soldier, Harry Saunders, who leaves Condah Mission to fight for Australia in Papua New Guinea during the Second World War, but his fight is also for the rights of the…
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Catriona McKenzie
The art of Papunya Tula, commonly known as “dot painting,” is internationally renowned. Mr. Patterns tells the story of Geoff Bardon who, together with the Papunya artists, was a catalyst for what many consider one of the greatest art movements of…
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Tom Murray, Allan Collins ACS
Seventy years after the controversial murder trial of the great Yolngu leader Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda and his subsequent disappearance, his family is still searching for answers. Dhakiyarr's body has still not been found and laid to rest. His…
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John Gavin
Trooper O'Brien is a 1928 Australian silent film from the team of John and Agnes Gavin. It was a melodrama set during the "Ned Kelly era" about an orphaned girl raised by a policeman in the bush. It is one of the rare Australian films that still…
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Charles Chauvel
Successful authoress Beatrice Lynn is commissioned by her publisher to go to the Outback and locate the legendary white man, Mala, who heads an Aboriginal tribe.
Travelling by camel, she is abducted by an Afghan, Akbar Jhan, and his group of…
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People
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More and more Australians want to learn about reconciliation with Aboriginal people: What's the meaning of reconciliation? How can you contribute? And what is a RAP? Here are your answers.
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Education
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Chris Sarra
When Chris Sarra arrived as the first Aboriginal principal of Cherbourg State School in 1998, it was a time of high hopes but low expectations in Aboriginal education. Over the next 6 years, he transformed the school into a national success story,…
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Children
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Sally Morgan, Ezekiel Kwaymullina
Sam is a young boy who like most young boys of this generation loves computers, DVDs, iPods and iPhones. He hates the Australian bush and the outdoors. Sam would be happy if it all disappeared.
Then he goes to stay with his Nanna who loves the…
