Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

"We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey of songspirals. Songspirals are the essence of people in this land, the essence of every clan. We belong to the land and it belongs to us. We sing to the land, sing about the land. We are that land. It sings to us." Aboriginal Australians a...

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 centu...

Making extensive and imaginative use of oral resources and hitherto unseen documents, Sort of a Place Like Home paints a vivid and intimate picture of the life experience of thousands of Aboriginal people at the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia.

Some of Indigenous Australia's emerging and well-known thinkers offer a critical perspective on the most important political and cultural issues facing Indigenous people today and set the agenda for further action.

After undergoing heart surgery in 2012 and facing his own mortality, Warren Mundine didn't feel he had time to pussyfoot around anymore. He realised he mightn't get another chance to say what he thought. By that time in his life he had already delivered dozens of speeches and written numerous new...

Documentary examining why & how Aboriginal youth make up a large proportion of the prison population.

The specialist Aboriginal Court is one of the most important and controversial measures introduced in recent decades to address the disadvantage and particular needs of Aboriginal people in the criminal courts of Australia. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Aboriginal Courts and their ...

Tells of five young Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. This tender and moving story goes further than any previous account to bring the tragic human story of the Stolen Generat...

Combines the stories of three aboriginal people, who were removed from their families, and interviews with Australian historians Marcia Langton and Henry Reynolds. Describes the experiences of Bobby Randall, Cleonie Quayle and Daisy Howard and the impact their separation from their families has...

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...

What do you do when the institutions that were meant to protect you instead denied you your childhood? This is the true story of Bruce Trevorrow, whose pursuit of justice sparked a thirteen-year legal battle that would make Australian history. On Christmas Day 1957, Joe Trevorrow walked through t...

The vast, ancient land of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin. The first stream of immigrants came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth ...

A most appealing book in which the author relates stories of her childhood in a large Aboriginal family in the South West of Western Australia.

A vibrant, breathtaking documentation of one of the most distinctive art movements in Australia and the political drive that underpins it al The Spinifex people have been living on their ancestral homelands in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia, Tjuntjuntjara since time immemorial. This...

Our people had thrived here on the so-called New England Tableland since the first sunrise. But in the 1830s, squatters began invading the region with their plagues of livestock. Colonization plunged Aboriginal society into utter chaos, driving us off our lands and decimating the traditional way ...

Gecko, Thorny Devil and Scrubby Python admire Bungarra and hatch a plan to surprise him with this very special birthday gift... but their plan goes horribly wrong. When they hear from King George Brown (KGB) that Willy-Wagtail's egg is the sweetest egg of all, they hatch a plan to steal an egg fo...

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.

In this provocative analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism, the author applies academic training and cultural knowledge in revealing the invisible position of power and privilege in feminist practice. This is a uniquely Australian contribution to the increasing global discourse on femin...

'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...

In July 2015, as the debate over Adam Goodes being booed at AFL games raged and got ever more heated and ugly, Stan Grant wrote a short but powerful piece for The Guardian that went viral, not only in Australia but right around the world, shared over 100,000 times on social media. His was a perso...

Tasmanian Aborigines were driven off their land so white settlers could produce fine wool for the English textile mills. By the time Truganini died in 1876, they were considered to be extinct. Yet like so many other claims about them, this was wrong. Far from disappearing, the Tasmanian Aborigine...

An analysed dictionary of the Taungurung language.

Annotation. Age range 5+The Tea and Sugar train only came once a week on a Thursday. But the special Christmas train only came once a year.Today was Sunday.Four more days without sugar.Four more days until the Christmas train. Please, please be on time. Please dont be late. Join Kathleen in the o...

Summary: Helps pre-service teachers prepare themselves for the challenges and joys of teaching Aboriginal students in urban, remote and rural primary and secondary schools. The book balances the practical, the personal and the theoretical to convey the richness of diversity that is found within A...

Indigenous children, like all children, deserve a future they choose for themselves. This book aims to empower teachers to help halt the cycle of disadvantage for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and make a real difference to their relationships, learning outcomes and opportunities ...

Amanda Webster embarks on a long-intended search for two former school friends - Aboriginal kids from the Kurrawang Mission near where she grew up in Kalgoorlie. Over the years her questions accumulated: were her friends members of the Stolen Generations? What was life at Kurrawang really like? I...