Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, ...

In this extraordinary collection, respected Barladong Noongar women Dr Marion Kickett and Tracey Kickett bring together first-person stories from First Nations peoples living in Western Australia. In some cases for the first time, Marion and Tracey tell their own stories; their close and extended...

Look into these lush green bushes. We might find something... There is alyurr! Kakkak Kapindi, my mother's mother, told us alyurr are the Lightning people's children. When the rains begin, they come out of the soil. As they grow, they shed their skins and their bright colours are revealed. Soon t...

Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page an...

Since the colonisation of Australia by the British, Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have experienced great hardship - including mass death and displacement - but have demonstrated resilience, strength, compassion and ingenuity. This book offers a brief history of Austral...

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.

Provides readings and activities that enable students to gain some small insights and thus understandings into the strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait families and communities.

For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. Not ...