Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

What is Aboriginal art? Simply written and fully illustrated; ideal for the student, tourist, or anybody interested in this subject.

A ground-breaking graphic novel sharing the stories of Yindjibarndi Creation-times in an immediate and engaging way for a contemporary audience. Yindjibarndi believe all creation is written in our landscape and was sung long ago, filling our Ngurra (Country) with sacred meanings and deep religiou...

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.

On the bank of a great river, six Indigenous women gather: a community leader, a city girl, a niece with a bucketload of issues, a woman from a mission town, a park ranger, and the curator of a museum's Indigenous unit. These women are connected by kinship, but their worlds are far apart, separat...

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...

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.

From a falling star to a lonely whale, an entertaining lizard to an enterprising penguin, these Indigenous stories are full of wonder, adventure and enduring friendships. Told in the style of traditional teaching stories, these animal tales take young readers on adventures of self-discovery and f...