History | Ayanna Thompson

Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren't there as many examples of people of colour in whiteface? This book explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its…

Fiction, novels | Adam Thompson

Engaging, thought-provoking stories from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal author who addresses universal themes - identity, racism, heritage destruction - from a wholly original perspective. The short stories in Born Into This throw light on a world of…

Fiction, novels | Larissa Behrendt

When Aboriginal lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them reconcile the past. Twenty-five years earlier the disappearance of…

History | Peter Sutton, Keryn Walshe

Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? is an authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production. Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the…

Autobiography, biography | Dianne O'Brien

Born in country NSW in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her Aboriginal mother. Raised in the era of the White Australia policy, Dianne grows up believing her adoptive Irish mother, Val, is her birth mother. Val promises Dianne that…

Health | Alexis Wright

First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Aboriginal people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve community-wide alcohol restrictions, is more relevant now than ever. A searing account of what transpired more than 25 years ago,…

Children | Adam Briggs

Adapted from Briggs’ celebrated song 'The Children Came Back', Our Home, Our Heartbeat is a celebration of past and present Indigenous legends, as well as emerging generations, and at its heart honours the oldest continuous culture on…

History | Dr Stephen Gapps

In mid-1824, the Bathurst district was under siege. Local Wiradjuri people had broken off contact with colonists and vowed to kill all invading white men. Warriors raided outstations, killing people and stock with impunity while large war bands…

Autobiography, biography | Kanakiya Myra Ah Chee

Oodnadatta Country - I can still see it, in my mind's eye, exactly as it was back in my time. There are so many stories to tell of my life, and sometimes I think they are not of importance, but they are, because often it is the little details that…

Children | Aunty Fay Muir, Sue Lawson, Leanne Mulgo Watson (Illustrator)

When we share, there is plenty for all. A tender, thoughtful story with a gentle reminder of all the ways sharing makes us stronger. Sharing is book three in the award-winning Our Place series (Respect 2020, Family 2020) that introduces children…

Children | Aunty Fay Muir, Sue Lawson, Lisa Kennedy (Illustrator)

Our Way is old.Older than the red earth.Older than flickering stars.Our way is respect.A tender, thoughtful story reminding us to respect others and respect ourselves. Part of the Our Place series which welcomes children to culture.

Children | Larry Brandy

The Wiradjuri are the people of the three bila (rivers) and their nguram-bang (Country) is the second largest in Australia. Come with Uncle Larry Brandy on an enlightening journey through his Country’s rivers, woodlands, grasslands and rocky…

History | Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements

During Tasmania's Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history. His Oyster Bay Nation of southeast Tasmania and his ally Montpelliatta's Big River Nation of central Tasmania made…

Fiction, novels | Paul Collis

When he was in gaol, he'd begun to prepare himself for the fight of his life, a showdown with the policeman, McWilliams a he'd face life with death, and see who blinked first.' Blackie and Rips are fresh out of prison when they set off on a road…

Spirituality and poetry | Evelyn Araluen

I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury. Dropbear interrogates the…

Textbooks, teaching, studies | Tyson Yunkaporta

Sand Talk – How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World What happens when global systems are viewed from an Aboriginal perspective? How does it affect the way we see history, money, power and learning? Could it change the world? This remarkable…