Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. Not ...

Outlines how one Aboriginal community drew upon their sense of country, kin and culture to survive the incursions of British colonisation.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. AUSTRALIAN. Deborah Bird Rose is Professor, Social Inclusion, at Macquarie University where her work focuses on entwined social and ecological justice. She writes widely in the fields of anthropology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, and is the author of numerous bo...

Aboriginal clan from Northern Territory.

Crime, Aboriginality and the Decolonisation of Justice explores contemporary strategies which might diminish the extraordinary levels of imprisonment and victimisation suffered by Aboriginal people in Australia. The book argues that enhancing Aboriginal ownership and control over justice and just...

Crime, Aboriginality and the Decolonisation of Justice explores contemporary strategies which might reduce the extraordinary levels of imprisonment and victimisation suffered by Aboriginal people in Australia. These are problems that continue to rise despite numerous inquiries and reports. The bo...

Crow Baby was born with two spirits one crow, and one human. Living across both worlds, she is content within her crow clan and her human family. But one day, a time of crisis arrives, and she must make a difficult decision that could change everything, forever. What will Crow Baby do?

Documents the relationship between settlers and Aboriginals in Western Australia.

Presents the work of thirty artists from each Australian state and territory, the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial demonstrates the incredible range of contemporary Indigenous art practice. The works included were created during the past three years in a variety of media, including pai...

Mary McCarthy is a storyteller, artist, teacher, healer, creative and intuitive who gently plaits her accounts in this exquisite memoir of living and working in remote Arnhem Land. From a young girl, Mary has had a deep connection to the land and to our First Nations peoples. Her understanding an...

Dancing in Shadows explores the power of Indigenous performance pitted against the forces of settler colonisation. Historian Anna Haebich documents how the Nyungar people of Western Australia strategically and courageously adapted their rich performance culture to survive the catastrophe that eng...

Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems o...

From a victim of the 'stolen generations' comes a remarkable memoir of abuse, survival and ultimately hope. 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 ...

Cultural processes of Aboriginal women.

"A series of short films made by indigenous Western Australian filmmakers"--Container.

Few Australians realise the extent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in the military. Many enlisted before they had the right to vote, to drink alcohol or even to receive equal wages. Defending Country is the first book to document the unique experiences of Indigenous men and...

In September 2013 just before the weather turned even more intense a group of intrepid writers made their way to three Australian desert settings to work with groups and individuals wishing to write. Both Aboriginal people with a profound connection to country and residents of more recent arrival...

Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page an...

FOLKLORE. AUSTRALIAN. This series of six books presents studies of Indigenous culture. Each book in the series shares a traditional story from an Indigenous community. The stories, as well as being entertaining, convey messages connected to the community's traditions, cultural practices and creat...

Describes the approach taken by British and colonial governments towards Aboriginal European relations in Western Australia, focusing on British colonial law, during the period where magistrates and judges were recruited from the among the settlers, prior to the establishment of formal Supreme Co...

HISTORY. AUSTRALIAN. The author argues that we can better understand a people if we know how they see and use plants. in Discovering Aboriginal Plant Use, Clarke dips into his field journals to provide a rich account of journeys, as both anthropologist and ethnobotanist, that span the temperate, ...

The author argues that we can better understand a people if we know how they see and use plants. In Discovering Aboriginal Plant Use, Clarke dips into his field journals to provide a rich account of journeys, as both anthropologist and ethnobotanist, that span the temperate, arid and tropical zon...

BIRDS & BIRDWATCHING. AUSTRALIAN. Thirty-six water birds from Noongar Country. The poster includes the three Noongar dialects where possible, Noongar spelling for the LOTE program and a make giving details of the Noongar dialects.