Arts | Bruce Pascoe , Katherine Aigner (ed.)

From the ancient Etruscans and Romans, to the Renaissance masters of Michelangelo and Raphael, the Vatican Museums represent an aspect of the history of humanity through art. The Indigenous Australian collection is a little known and unexplored part…

Arts | Louise Sherman, Christobel Mattingley (eds.)

Our Mob, God's Story is an art book with a difference, with more than 115 works in an exciting variety of styles and stories by over 65 established and emerging Aboriginal artists. These artists are well-known and unknown, from communities, towns…

Health | Brendan James Murray

In the early years of the 20th century, an awareness was growing among European Australians of an unexpected threat, one that seemed the very embodiment of the dark, ominous power of the Australian bush. To the Aboriginal people of the Guugu…

History | Robert Lawlor

Australian Aboriginal people have lived in harmony with the earth for perhaps as long as 100,000 years; in their words, since the First Day. In this absorbing work, Lawlor explores the essence of their culture as a source of and guide to…

Arts | Clinton Walker

Deadly Woman Blues, stunning, original and brimming with life, is the first of its kind. Part art book, part comic book, part biography and fully deadly (an Aboriginal slang word for 'great'), it is a unique graphic history of the black women who…

Children | Elaine Russell

This book was inspired by Aboriginal artist Elaine Russell's childhood memories of her family and their life on the mission at Murrin Bridge. Each letter of the alphabet takes the reader on a different journey through the daily events of Elaine's…

Children | Jennifer Castles, Paul Seden

Once there were two little girls who were best friends. They did everything together. As they got older they weren't allowed to do the same things anymore. Because they looked different. Because of the law. This is a story about the landmark 1967…

Children | Mark Greenwood, Terry Denton (Illus.)

The epic and tragic story of Jandamarra, Aboriginal hero of the Kimberley told through text and illustrations. A story for all Australians, providing a unique insight into an extraordinary man and a powerful slice of history. He emerged from the…

Children | Bob Randall, Melanie Hogan

Meaning ‘what you should know’, Nyuntu Ninti is written in the words of Bob Randall (c.1934–2015), a Yankunytjatjara elder, songwriter and NAIDOC Person of the Year, 1999.In this beautiful photographic book for young children, Bob explains the…

Arts | Anna Haebich

Dancing in Shadows explores the power of Aboriginal performance pitted against the forces of settler colonisation. Historian Anna Haebich documents how the Noongar (also spelt Nyungar) people of Western Australia strategically and courageously…

History | Sue Taffe

Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881-1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal Australians had their citizens' rights…

Arts | National Gallery of Australia

Bringing together works by 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country, Defying Empire commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum that recognised Aboriginal people as Australians for the first…

History | Tanya Edwards, Sarah Yu (eds.)

The raw, alluring beauty of the pearl and the stories of those who collected it form a fascinating part of Australia's national heritage.The Aboriginal trade and cultural significance of the magnificent Pinctada pearl shell had been well established…

Spirituality and poetry | Charmaine Papertalk Green, John Kinsella

From well-known poets John Kinsella and Charmaine Papertalk-Green comes a tête-à-tête that is powerful, thought provoking and challenges what we think we know about our country, colonisation and how we understand our land. Striking conversations…