Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

Review: "This volume examines the impact of racist government legislation and policies upon the indigenous people of Australia over the last 200 years. Pattel-Gray contends that racism in Australia is rooted in the long and corrupt relationship between government and church. The persistence of ra...

It has been over twenty years since the release of the landmark Bringing them home report and more than a decade since the national apology was delivered by then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to Stolen Generations survivors -- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians who have suffered as the...

Indigenous Australians are among the most incarcerated people on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders make up 2% of all Australians, yet constitute more than a quarter of the nation's prison population. Over-representation in the criminal justice system by Indigenous men, women and young...

Annotation. 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 yea...

Review: "In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive, but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of Indigenous success – cul...

A Boy's Life by celebrated Aboriginal poet and playwright Jack Davis, is an autobiographical account of his boyhood in the southwest of Western Australia during the depression years of the 1920s and 30s. Written with humour and compassion, this book provides insights into a significant literary f...

BIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. A tiny outpost of colonial administration is planted on the desolate mudflats of King Sound, at Derby. Leases are marked on a map covering huge areas, and the push into the north begins. Vast herds of cattle and sheep move across the land and with it, a new future. In the remo...

On March 13, 1978 the Queensland Dept. of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement moved to take over administration of Arukun and Mornington Island Aboriginal reserves from the Uniting Church missionaryorganisation. This is an account of what happened in the following months.

Bilingual collection from Pilbara.

Interviews with successful Aboriginal women; by Australian actor/singer.

Originally published in 1994, The Little Red Yellow Black Book has established itself as the perfect starting point for those who want to learn about the rich cultures and histories of Australia's First Peoples. Written from an Indigenous perspective, this highly illustrated and accessible introd...

Papunya- A Place Made After the Story is a first-hand account of the Papunya Tula artists and their internationally significant works emanating from the central Western Desert.

This publication, which accompanies the QAGOMA exhibition (02 JUN 2018 – 7 OCT 2018) of the same name, chronicles the development of the career of Tony Albert, one of the country's brightest rising art stars whose work has come to prominence through its ability to speak to important issues of rac...

Contains lists of words from seventeen indigenous languages, arranged in categories such as land, water, mammals, plants, birds, home, sound and colours, allowing the reader to browse in a focused fashion for the ideal name for that important possession.

When Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay, about 250 distinct languages were spoken across the continent. Yet Australian Indigenous languages actually share many common features. Bob Dixon has been working with elders to research Australian languages for half a century, and he draws on this deep exp...

At the outbreak of war in August 1914, thousands of men from across the nation flocked to recruiting centres to sign up to serve in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). This figure includes approximately 1,200 Aboriginal people. The lives of these men as civilians were often fraught with difficul...

'That's the way it is with us mob. We were brought up to talk kind of sideways. That's the respectful, true Aboriginal way.' Reg Dodd grew up at Finniss Springs, on striking desert country bordering South Australia's Lake Eyre. For the Arabunna and for many other Aboriginal people, Finniss Spring...

Since publishing his memoir Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows this is not where the story ends. In this long-awaited follow up, S...

From a falling star to a lonely whale, an entertaining lizard to an enterprising penguin, these Indigenous stories are full of wonder, adventure and enduring friendships. Told in the style of traditional teaching stories, these animal tales take young readers on adventures of self-discovery and f...

Noongar was originally an oral language, not written. Europeans used many different ways of spelling Noongar words.

It's been almost fifty years since a teenage David Gulpilil illuminated screens worldwide with his breakout role in Walkabout. It was one of the first times we'd seen an Aboriginal person cast in a significant role and only four years after Holt's referendum to alter the constitution and give Ind...

This is a book for all Australians. Since the Uluru Statement from the Heart was formed in 2017, Thomas Mayor has travelled around the country to promote its vision of a better future for Indigenous Australians. He's visited communities big and small, often with the Uluru Statement canvas rolled ...