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List view record 1: Songlines : the power and promiseList view anchor tag for record 1: Songlines : the power and promise
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Songlines : the power and promise

Neale, Margo2020
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, ...
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Guardians

Gould, Jordan2022
Meet Wylah: warrior, hero and friend. Her adventures have been 40,000 years in the making! Wylah is brave, clever and strong-willed, and all her best friends are giant megafauna animals. But she isn't a warrior. Not yet, anyway. Then comes the day when her family is stolen by the dragon army, and...
List view record 3: My country my life my wordsList view anchor tag for record 3: My country my life my words
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My country my life my words

2023
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...
List view record 4: Walking the rock country in Kakadu = Karrire kundenge karribolknan kunwarddehwarddeList view anchor tag for record 4: Walking the rock country in Kakadu = Karrire kundenge karribolknan kunwarddehwardde
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Design : building on country

Page, Alison2021
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...
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Indigenous biographies

2016
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...
List view record 7: The emu who ran through the skyList view anchor tag for record 7: The emu who ran through the sky
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The emu who ran through the sky

Milroy, Helen2021
Lofty, a young emu desperately wants to win a big emu race, but he is slow and clumsy - and his first race ends in disaster! But, Lofty realises there is another way to win the race. He enlists the help of his Bush Mob friends Eagle, Sugar Glider and Bat - who are all excellent fliers - to teach ...
List view record 8: Aboriginal contact with the criminal justice system in Western AustraliaList view anchor tag for record 8: Aboriginal contact with the criminal justice system in Western Australia
List view record 9: Aboriginal youth and the juvenile justice system in Western AustraliaList view anchor tag for record 9: Aboriginal youth and the juvenile justice system in Western Australia
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Aboriginal arts [dvd]

2006
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.
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