Arts | Elizabeth Grant, Kelly Greenop, Albert L. Refiti, Daniel J. Glenn (eds)

The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture provides the first comprehensive international overview of significant contemporary Aboriginal architecture, practice, and discourse, showcasing established and emerging Indigenous authors and…

Arts | Melinda Hinkson

What can a collection of drawings reveal about their makers? Crayon drawings collected by anthropologists provide an illuminating prism through which to explore how the Warlpiri people of Central Australia have seen their place in the world and…

Spirituality and poetry | Dan Davis

Dan Davis is an emerging poet whose poem Mookari (included in this book) was his first work that was nationally and internationally recognised after it was published on Creative Spirits.Now you can read about his life, family land and lore in this…

History | Bruce Pascoe

The highly-anticipated junior version (ages 10+) of Bruce Pascoe’s multi award-winning book, Dark Emu. Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person…

History | Allison Cadzow, Mary Anne Jebb (eds)

While Aboriginal people have been largely ignored or marginalised in national histories of war and service, they have remembered their involvement in defence service and the service of their relatives. Our Mob Served presents a moving and…

Children | Jasmine Seymour

Baby Business tells the story of the baby smoking ceremony that welcomes baby to country. The smoke is a blessing — it will protect the baby and remind them that they belong. This beautiful ritual is recounted in a way young children will…

People | Monica Tan

Like many Australians, Monica Tan grew up with a patchy understanding of Australian history and Aboriginal culture.But she also harboured a belief that, as a Chinese Australian, her relationship with Aboriginal Australia was different from that of a…

People | Lawrence Bamblett, Fred Myers, Tim Rowse (editors)

Through the struggles of Aboriginal people for recognition and self-determination it has become common sense to understand Australia as made up of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and things. But in what ways is the…

Language | Jakelin Troy

The Sydney Language was written to revive interest the Aboriginal language of the Sydney district. It makes readily available the small amount of surviving information from historical records.Author, Professor Jakelin Troy refers to the language as…

Health | Vivienne Hansen, John Horsfall

Bush Food Plants and Fungi of the South-West of Western AustraliaBefore the colonisation of Australia, Aboriginal people lived on a diet of fresh fruit, vegetables and lean meat, in a land largely free from disease, with more exercise, less stress…

Spirituality and poetry | Alison Whittaker

A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Alison Whittaker’s Blakwork is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the…

Children | Coral Vass, Dub Leffler (Illustrator)

There was a hum of excitement.Flags flickered in the breeze as Maggie’s heart danced with delight.‘This is a very special day!’ her mother said. Maggie holds tight to her mother as they await the long anticipated apology to show a willingness to…

Autobiography, biography | Stan Grant

As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away. There are the hard questions we ask of ourselves on Australia Day.Since publishing his critically acclaimed, Walkley Award-winning,…

Textbooks, teaching, studies | Geoffrey Blomfield

In this unique book, Geoffrey Blomfield has set out to tell the complete story of black-white relations in a small and ‘manageable’ area – the “Falls Country” around the headwaters of the Manning, Macleay and Hastings Rivers on the south eastern…

Textbooks, teaching, studies | Sarah Maddison

Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal people.The evidence is incontrovertible. Whatever the policy – from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition – government policies and programs have…