Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track along which cattle could be driven from Kimberley s...

Long before they were ARIA Hall of Fame inductees, Yothu Yindi were a bunch of Yolngu (Aboriginal) and balanda (non-Indigenous) mates in far-north Australia jamming together for fun. Soon they were creating some of the coolest new music in the country, splicing traditional sounds with electric, a...

Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a recons...

"Yuendumu Everyday explores intimacy, immediacy and mobility as the core principles underpinning contemporary everyday life in a central Australian Aboriginal settlement."

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES & SPECIFIC COLLECTIONS. AUSTRALIAN. The official companion publication to the Yurlmun: Mokare Mia Boodja (Returning to Mokare's home land) exhibition. Yurlmun: Mokare Mia Boodja, which means 'Returning to Mokare's Home Country' features 14 rare, significant objects that orig...