Heroes, Rebels and Innovators: Inspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from history (HB) (CBCA Winner 2022) by Karen Wyld
$26.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Powerful and inspiring: here are seven stirring stories about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who helped shape Australia. Each colourful spread in this illustrated book tells the story of incredible Indigenous Australians - such as Patyegarang, the young Darug woman who taught a First Fleet ...Show more
Time to Listen An Indigenous Voice to Parliament by Melissa Castan, Lynette Russell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In 2023, debate about an Indigenous Voice to Parliament swirls around us as Australia heads towards a referendum on amending the Constitution to make this Voice a reality. The idea of a ' First Nations Voice' was famously raised in 2017, when Indigenous leaders drafted the Statement from the Heart-- als ...Show more
Sorry and Beyond: Healing the Stolen Generations by Brian Butler, John Bond
$39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Brian Butler’s grandmother was taken from her family in 1910. She was 12 years old. Twenty years later her daughter, Brian’s mother, was taken.Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, like Brian Butler’s, have been coping with the trauma of child removal for more than a century. Sorr ...Show more
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes ...Show more
Dark Tales from the Long River: A Bloody History of Australia's North-West Frontier by David Price
$32.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
From searches for serial killers and missing persons to the persecution of migrants and Aboriginal people, David Price takes us back to a time when the line between lawmakers and criminals was lightly drawn. Based on a wide array of contemporaneous accounts of life in the Gascoyne, these sometimes shock ...Show more
Our Country: Ancient Wonders by Mark Greenwood
$16.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Our Country Ser.
Now in paperback, this first book in the Our Country series takes readers on a journey across Australia to marvel at our unique geology and geography.Our home is an ancient land.In every corner of Australia, wonders are waiting for curious explorers.With each vibrant fact-filled page of this unique book ...Show more
Living in Hope by Frank Byrne; Frances Coughlan; Gerard Waterford
$15.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Book one in the Inland Writers-short reads from the Centre of Australia. The killing times were barely over in the Kimberley. What I knew, even as a small boy, was that no-one argued with a whitefella. People talked in whispers. I was still so small. This is the story of the early years of my life. The ...Show more
Darby by Campbell Liam
$35.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Born in the bush before Whitefellas entered his country, Darby Jampijinpa Ross lived through a time of great change for his people and died the day after his hundredth birthday. He survived the deaths of his family in the 1928 Coniston massacre before travelling widely as a stockman, cameleer, drover a ...Show more
Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession by Hill, Barry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
The biography of T. G. H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession. ‘A group of men… chanting with the enthusiasm that made them forget age & weakness & becoming young again in spirit…the rising and falling of the chant melody, like the breathing that gives us life – what an unforgettable scene!’ Th ...Show more
Art + Soul by Hetti Perkins
$49.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
From the publishers of the bestseller 'First Australians' comes the lavishly illustrated 'art + soul', the companion book to the prime-time ABC TV series by the same name. 'art+soul' is inspired by the flourishing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in Australia over the past thirty years, capt ...Show more
The Cherry Picker's Daughter by Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert
$29.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The strength of family ties in Aboriginal communities is clearly evident when three-month-old Kerry and her brother lost both parents. Her father, Kevin Gilbert -- later to become a famous activist, writer, painter and actor -- killed their mother and was jailed for many years. Her father's sister, whom ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking - The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946-1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
$39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia's Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically-important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of ...Show more