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History
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Steven Strong, Evan Strong
Nearly 50,000 years ago Australian Aboriginal peoples set sail seeking new horizons. As they arrived on distant shores, they brought with them beliefs and a lifestyle unknown elsewhere. Their legacy was a mixed blessing. Although founding the basis…
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Sonja Dare
In the heart of central Australia, the town of Alice Springs has become something of a haven for Lesbians – a place where black and white women mix and mingle, confronting the challenges of loving across racial and cultural gaps.
In a delightful…
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Tony Thorne
Little J is five years old and his Big Cuz is nine. They’re two Aboriginal kids living with their Nanna and Old Dog.
All their friends are nearby, and school is just a stroll away along a bush track. There’s so much to discover in the backyard...and…
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Adrian Wills
Black Divaz follows the inaugural Miss First Nation pageant where six Aboriginal drag queens from around Australia battle it out over five days for the coveted crown. With photo shoots with crocodiles, challenges, talent quests and lip sync battles…
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Jessie Boylan
Between 1952 and 1963 the British Government performed highly secretive nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga and Emu Field in South Australia and on the Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia.
Maralinga was subject to 12 major nuclear…
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Sport
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Colin Tatz, Paul Tatz
Evonne Goolagong, Cathy Freeman, Nova Peris, Lionel Rose, Artie Beetson, Polly Farmer, are just a few of our Australian sporting heroes who, since the mid-1880s, have helped shape Australia's identity as a great sporting nation.They, along with 269…
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Arts
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National Gallery of Australia
A bruised ridge of hills. A scrub-mottled plain. Ghost gums framing a wash of sky ...Pioneering Aboriginal watercolourist Albert Namatjira's landscape paintings are synonymous with our perception of the Australian outback. But these luminous…
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Land
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Siena Stubbs
A delightful gift book of birds from around Yirrkala, which is Siena's home in North East Arnhem Land.
This beautiful little book includes the English and Yolnu names of the birds and their Yolnu moiety. In Yolnu culture, everything is divided into…
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Children
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Rachel Bin Salleh, Samantha Fry (Illus.)
Alfred's War is a powerful story that unmasks the lack of recognition given to Australian Aboriginal servicemen who returned from the WWI battle lines.Alfred was just a young man when he was injured and shipped home from France. Neither honoured as…
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Fiction, novels
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Sam Watson
The Kadaitcha Sung is a book that shocks and confronts but the message is that the treatment of Australia's First Nations' people by the British invaders was brutal and shocking. It uses the genre of magical realism and describes violent incidents…
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History
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Nick Brodie
Britain formally colonised Van Diemen’s Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists moved in to the aboriginal hunting grounds. There was conflict, there was violence. But, governments and…
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Dr Stephen Gapps
The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians – described as 'this constant sort of war' by one early colonist – around the greater Sydney region.
Telling the story of the first years of…
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Anthologies
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Helen Ing Nellie
Born Ellie Nellie on an Aboriginal reserve in Western Australia's south west, she was nicknamed Ing by her family. Removed from her loving parents under government policy at the age of five, Ing was placed in a mission and denied her heritage. Her…
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People
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Nura Nungalka Ward
Ninu Grandmothers' Law is a definitive account of a traditional lifestyle and way of thinking.
Accompanied by exceptional archival photographs, it is an evocative, compelling chronicle and cultural philosophy of a time almost forgotten.
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Land
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Fred Cahir, Ian D. Clark, Philip A. Clarke
Aboriginal Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator-prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been…
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Alec Morgan
In 1951 the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) began using movie cameras in secret surveillance of people who were suspected of being threats to the state.
Some of their prime suspects were then 21-year-old Aboriginal man Ray…
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Lynette Wallworth
Collisions focus is Aboriginal elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan’s first contact with Europeans while he was observing one of the Maralinga atomic tests.
Set in the Western Desert, the film contains elements of tragedy, travel blog and nature story.
It…
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Dominic Allen
Put on your virtual reality headset and let David Gulpilil and Jack Charles guide you on a journey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander song and dance.
An exhilarating and visceral film that tells the expansive story of Carriberrie: Aboriginal…
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Warwick Thornton
This beautiful documentary is a character study of an old man named Norman Hayes Jagamarra who gave up droving and came to Coober Pedy decades ago to work as an opal-miner.
Norman is a “noodler” – someone who sifts through the mining scrap-heaps…
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Warwick Thornton
Tnorala is the Aboriginal name for Gosse’s Bluff, a dramatic meteorite impact crater set in a vast plain 175 kilometres west of Alice Springs.
This significant dreaming site for Western Arrernte people is steeped in mystery and tragedy. The story…
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Warwick Thornton
Rosalie reflects on her childhood, growing up in the Utopia area in central Australia, and then at school at St Mary’s in Alice Springs where she learnt English and went to Church. Despite her schooling, Rosalie retained fluency in her own language…
