Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

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.

Autobiography of Banjo Clarke, an elder of the Kirrae Whurrong, a people of the Gunditjmara nation. Born in 1922 he has experienced racism, cruelty and loss of loved ones.

A comprehensive look at the social and cultural history of Aborigines from the origins to the present.

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

Tells of the vital role that the Aboriginal people played in the establishment, and continue to play in the operation of the Kimberley pastoral industry. It tells of their life and work on the stations, their relationships with the European pastoralists, and of their struggle to remain on their l...

A firsthand account of the origins of the contemporary art movement in desert Australia.

A look at the clash between two cultures, Aboriginal and European in WA.

This richly illustrated account of Cape York activist Jean George Awumpun, written from the personal perspective of family, is a rare illustration of the inseparable bonds of ancestry and country.

Beautifully illustrated, Australian Dreaming is an Aboriginal history of the Australian continent and its people, as told by Aboriginal story-tellers. Through traditional myths and legends, it gives an explanation of the formation of the landscape and the creation of many outstanding geographical...

Aust'n. Between 1936 and 1954 the Western Australian Government conducted Courts of Native Affairs that heard murder and manslaughter cases where defendant and victim were Aboriginal. Cases which for every other citizen carried the status of Supreme Court trials were reduced to summary hearings c...

Shows how racist colonial myths found their expression in policy and how this impacted Aboriginal lives. Includes post 1967 information, legislation and appendices.

Henry Reynolds describes his search for the truth about his father's heritage in conjunction with a history of racial ideas regarding mixed-blood people - 'half-castes'.

This collection of short stories tell of Trev Brown's time as a teacher at the Angurugu School on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Follow the authors as they walk through the bush of northern Australia following the seasonal calendar of the Gundjeihmi-speaking people of Kakadu. Closely observe the birds, plants and animals that inhabit this unique environment, through an understanding of the six Aboriginal seasons and their ...

Explores how Aboriginal arts can be presented to both indigenous and non-indigenous students, in a culturally sensitive manner and how these art forms can be used within a curriculum framework. Looks at schools teaching the implementation of Aboriginal arts and visits to galleries.

Doukakis draws upon 60 years of NSW parliamentary debates to investigate early attitudes towards Aborigines, and towards policies and legislation which affected them. She shows that the men elected to the first democratic Parliament in NSW in 1856, and their successors to 1916, held wide-ranging ...

Bilingual in Noongar Balardong and English. The story of the mud crab, the magpie goose and the pied cormorant who meet together to dance a corroboree. They all dance until they are exhaused when the magpie goose man and his family decide to become birds, the pied cororant and his family decide t...

"Stories of mining and the Aboriginal people of the Pilbara"--T.p. verso.

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

This catalogue accompanies the first major US presentation of art by indigenous women of Australia. The exhibition showcases 34 artists' important contributions to contemporary painting and represents communities across the continent. The intensely colourful canvases and extremely intricate paint...