Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

Effects of the decision in 1965 to pay Aboriginal workers the Full Award for their work on cattle stations.

"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...

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...

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...

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...

Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic mammals roamed the plains and enormous crocodiles, giant snakes and goannas nestled in the estuaries and savannahs. F...

What is the place of Australia's colonial memorials in today's society? Do we remove, destroy or amend? Monumental Disruptions investigates how these memorials have been viewed, and are viewed, by First Nations people to find a way forward. In June 2020, on the heels of Australia's James Cook ann...

The perfect introduction to Aboriginal art, now in its fourth edition. This edition has been expanded and updated to include and reflect on important artists who have emerged in the last decade, with a focus on the burgeoning of activity in the Southern Desert region, Queensland and the Torres St...

For two decades the author visited the Yolngu clan of northeast Arnhem Land. With their permission he has recorded traditional medicinal knowledge, and the healng scenes have been specially enacted and photographed. Colour photos.

Account of a people and a Kimberley region as well as an Aboriginal author raised at the Kalumburu Mission.

Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected w...

Examines the situation of Aboriginal women who lived on the Catholic missions of Beagle Bay and Kalumburu, explores the effects of European colonization on these women, and the politics of race, gender and class in the colonizing process.

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.

"The impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants." --Provided by publisher.

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...

This series presents stories of four different Aboriginal groups each from a different environment. History of the community, its traditional culture, the status of the clan today and what the future might hold. This is about Iris Clayton and her clan the Wiradjuri from the Murrumbidgee River are...

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 ...

Ruby Moonlight, a verse novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper.

Autobiography of WA actress.

Balharda the bobtail felt pretty in her necklace of wildflowers. But the Bidi-bidi butterflies laughed and said she was ugly. Who will be bobtail's friend? In this Aboriginal Dreaming story, follow Balharda downriver from the desert to the sea and learn how words can hurt or heal, and how making ...

On Goonya-Wardu Country, Carnarvon, Western Australia, Walgathu the wedge-tailed eagle chick falls from his nest and then is scared to fly. The Nyingari zebra finch family take care of him. Walgathu goes in search of his eagle family, in the sandhills, the water and the claypans. An ancient law i...

Poor old Grandfather Emu can hardly walk or see. Of all the bush animals, who will lead old Weij to the creek for food and water? And learn how Mother Yonga Kangaroo got her pouch, and the importance of taking the time to help.

Poor old Grandfather Emu can hardly walk or see. Of all the bush animals, who will lead old Weij to the creek for food and water? And learn how Mother Yonga Kangaroo got her pouch, and the importance of taking the time to help.

On the spiritual place of Wadjemup, Rottnest Island, tourists are injuring the animals and making them sick. It's time to make a stand. In this Aboriginal Dreaming story, farting quokkas, dive-bombing seabirds and protesting snakes teach us how to look after our sacred land and its animals. Throu...