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Spirituality and poetry
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Alison Whittaker
From a remarkable new voice in Aboriginal writing comes this highly original collection of poems bristling with stunning imagery and gritty textures. At times sensual, always potent, Lemons in the Chicken Wire delivers a collage of work that…
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Arts
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British Museum
Encounters - Revealing Stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Objects from the British Museum is published to accompany a groundbreaking exhibition at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, in which rare historic objects collected…
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Documentary |
David Sandy, Bruno de Villenoisy, Lorraine Mafi-Williams, Martin Rooke
Black Santa follows Syd Cunningham, Head of the Aboriginal Welfare Unit, St Marys, NSW.
He dons his Santa uniform and distributes Christmas presents to the local Aboriginal children.
Black Santa is part of the Blackout series.
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Language
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Adam Kendon
Originally published in 1988, Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia was the first book-length study ever to be published on the subject of sign language as a means of communication among Australian Aboriginal people.
The work presented in this…
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History
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Henry Reynolds
Black Pioneers is an important new edition of With the White People, Henry Reynolds' challenging account of the role of Aboriginal and Islander people in the exploration and development of colonial Australia. In this book, Henry Reynolds debunks the…
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Adventure |
Simon Wincer
Matthew Quigley, an American frontiersmen and sharpshooter, is lured to the Australian outback by an offer from a powerful sheep rancher to use his shooting skills to kill troublesome dingoes in the outback.
Travelling from Montana with only a…
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Children
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Tony Flowers (illus.)
Yiasou! That's hello in Greek!Or would you like to speak Chinese? What about Italian or Korean? Murinhpatha or Kaurna?Meet 12 Australian friends who can speak different languages. They tell us how to count from 1 to 10, say hello and goodbye and…
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Suspense |
Rachel Perkins
Jasper Jones is a coming-of-age story that follows 14-year-old Charlie Bucktin over the summer of 1965, as he gets caught up in the aftermath of a murder and small-town racism when a troublemaking boy, the titular Jasper Jones, summons him to the…
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Suspense |
Ivan Sen
Aboriginal detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on the trail of a missing person. He is immediately arrested for drunk driving by young local cop Josh.
When Jay's motel room is blasted with gunfire, it becomes clear that…
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Comedy |
Erica Glynn, Beck Cole
Black Comedy is back with new episodes.
One features Jack Charles as a modern-day tracker. In this alternative universe, use of trackers is so widespread they are enlisted in hardware stores to locate items for customers. When Jack’s character…
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Comedy |
Steven McGregor, Nakkiah Lui
The fourth series of Black Comedy will continue an acerbic, witty and altogether unapologetic comedic exploration of what it means to be black in contemporary Australia. The sketch comedy show is written and performed by some of the sharpest and…
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Comedy |
Beck Cole, Steven McGregor
Black Comedy (Season 3, 2018) is a sketch comedy series developed for the ABC, written by and starring some of the funniest Indigenous performers in the country. Ably supported by an array of talented Indigenous and non-Indigenous performers, the…
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Documentary |
Eleanor Gilbert
When the ancient wisdoms of the universe held by the oldest culture on earth meet modern astrophysics a new concept is born – cultural astronomy.
Increasingly Aboriginal people in Australia are being recognised as the first astronomers.
In the…
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Anthologies
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Stan Grant
Stan Grant was born in 1963 into the Wiradjuri people - a tribe of warriors who occupied the vast territory of central and south-western New South Wales. For 100 years the Wiradjuri waged a war against European invasion and settlement. This war has…
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People
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Stan Grant
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture and national identity.
In July 2015, as the debate over Aboriginal AFL player Adam Goodes being booed at games raged and got ever more heated and ugly, Stan Grant wrote a short…
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Arts
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Article
A poem by Michele "Mickey" Hetherington, NSW.
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History
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Mark Moran
Most of us have never been to a remote Aboriginal community. All we know is what we hear in the media about the failure of government policies, the turnover of programs, the slow rate of change.
But what is happening on the ground and why are the…
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Language
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Article
An overview of the number of speakers for selected First Nations languages.
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Documentary |
Erica Glynn
Ngangkari (also called Ngangkari Way) looks at the role of the 'Ngangkari' (traditional healer) in the health and well being of the Anangu people of Central Australia.
It introduces three renowned Ngangkari specialists, Andy Tjilari, Rupert Peters…
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Health
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NPY Women's Council Aboriginal Corporation
Traditional Healers of the Central Desert contains unique stories and imagery and primary source material: the ngangkari speak directly to the reader. Ngangkari are senior Aboriginal people authorised to speak publicly about Anangu culture and…
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Health
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John Cawte
For two decades (1970 to 1990), Professor John Cawte visited the Yolngu clan of north-east Arnhem Land every year.During this time he recorded, with the clan leaders' permission, traditional medicinal knowledge. Healing scenes were specially enacted…
