Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

The first major study of Aboriginal cross-cultural exchanges with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860-61.

The 1972 Aboriginal Embassy was one of the most significant indigenous political demonstrations of the twentieth century. What began as a simple response to a Prime Ministerial statement on Australia Day 1972, evolved into a six-month political stand-off between radical Aboriginal activists and a...

A compilation of Aboriginal words and names in use throughout Australia. The list provides information on the origin and location of each word, developing an understanding of Aboriginal language and culture. The words are arranged in both English and Aboriginal lists in a dictionary format.

Aborigines and the Sport of Kings celebrates the significant and exciting Aboriginal involvement in Australian racing history. A remarkable history considering that Australian Aboriginal peoples first contact with the European animals caused them bewilderment and terror because violent massacres ...

For more than seventy years, the Aborigines Protection Society (APS) fought to protect the rights of natives living under the rule of the British Empire. Active on four continents, the APS resisted the efforts of white supremacists while defending aboriginal interests across the globe. The APS pu...

Retelling of an Aboriginal legend from the Kimberley region.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. AUSTRALIAN. Stories of life from a remote Aboriginal community that sing with vivid and simple life, truth and power. At the end of 2008, Robbi Neal and her family travelled to the other end of mainland Australia to a remote Aboriginal community. They planned to stay for twelv...

Albert 'Pompey' Austin (Poorne Yarriworri) was a man between two worlds in the second half of the nineteenth century. He was one of the most important multi-sports Indigenous person of that era. In his brief life he was not just a footballer, but also a cricketer, pedestrian (as athletes were cal...

This book celebrates the strength, wisdom and bravery of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples defending their lands and rights through history. It takes a close look at some of the iconic First Nations protest movements since 1788 and the great change they achieved as a result. Understan...

Australian Aboriginal art is the longest continuous art tradition in the world, spanning over 50,000 years. This book puts a modern face on the tradition, celebrating the past 40 years of contemporary indigenous art, which has experienced a renaissance since 1970. It features more than 100 painti...

Account of the fortunes of shipwrecked Dutch sailors and their passengers, marooned on the west coast of Australia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

A ground-breaking work - and a call to arms - that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people. In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Ra...

The apology in Federal Parliament to the Stolen Generations of Australia, by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was a defining moment in the nation's history. Crowds gathered across the country to mark the occasion with tears, cheers and emotional displays of relief, happiness and in some cases, anger.

Former National Rugby League (NRL) star Dean Widders is a man on a mission. After fellow Indigenous players Preston Campbell, Timana Tahu and George Rose devised their own pre-game performance to match the haka of their Maori counterparts, Widders began a journey to bring this dance and First Nat...

A comprehensive overview of different methods of healing used by the Arrernte people of Central Australia. Previously titled Bush Medicine, it now includes the spiritual aspect of Arrente healing and its connection to the land. Also addresses the trio of evils: diabetes, obesity and over indulgen...

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries, and laborers invaded their land. During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity, and the earliest accounts of their lives,...

What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Many First Peoples regard the land as a reflection of the sky and the sky a reflection of the land. Sophisticated ast...

Rita Huggins was stolen from her country as a child in the 1920s, and taken to what was then the Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve. From that time, and also from the years as a single mother in Brisbane in the 1960s, Rita had the desire to make something better for herself, her family, and the Aborigi...

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...

The latest edition of this invaluable guide to walking our great land.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. AUSTRALIAN. William Blandowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led a Victorian government expedition to the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers from 1856 to 1857. Australia is the first publication in English of his nineteenth century illustrated encycl...

Violent conflict on the Australian frontier started soon after the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. This continued right up to the early 1900s with the last massacre of first Australians being recorded in 1928. In this short and succinct account Marji Hill tells the stories of five Aboriginal ...