White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Social & Cultural history
When white people cry foul it is often people of colour who suffer. White tears have a potency that silences racial minorities. White Tears/Brown Scarsblows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood. Never is this more obvious than the de ...Show more
My Place by Sally Morgan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
My Place begins with Sally Morgan tracing the experiences of her own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds - a ...Show more
Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art by Darren Jorgensen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art
In recording and ordering documents considered important, the archive is a source of power. It takes control of the past, deciding which voices will be heard and which won't, how they will be heard and for what purposes. Indigenous communities understood the power of the archive well before the European ...Show more
Forgotten War: new edition by Henry Reynolds
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
‘We are at war with them,’ wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. ‘What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.’Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on A ...Show more
Belonging TogetherDealing with the Politics of Disenchantment in Australian Indigenous Affairs Policy by Patrick Sullivan
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
"Belonging Together describes current Indigenous affairs policy in Australia, concentrating on the period since the end of ATSIC in 2004. It provides a unique overview of the trajectory of current policy, with Sullivan advancing a new consolidated approach to Indigenous policy which moves beyond the deb ...Show more
Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture by Deborah Bird Rose
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
This original ethnography brings indigenous people's stories into conversations around troubling questions of social justice and environmental care. Deborah Bird Rose lived for two years with the Yarralin community in the Northern Territory's remote Victoria River Valley. Her engagement with the people' ...Show more
The Last Wild West - The Saga of Northern Territory Cattle Stations, by Neil H. Atkinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Publishers by New Holland Publishers
Karu: Growing up Gurindji by Violet Wadrill; Biddy Wavehill; Topsy Dodd; Felicity Meakins
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Gurindji country is located in the southern Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. Gurindji people became well known in the 1960s-70s due to their influence on Australian politics and the Indigenous land rights movement. They were instrumental in gaining equal wages for Aboriginal cattle ...Show more
Born in the Desert : The Land and Travels of a Last Australian Nomad - SIGNED by Marion Hercock
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ: Australia's 'Mission Girl' Annie Lock by Catherine Bishop
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Who was responsible for the 1928 Coniston Massacre in Central Australia where a police party killed 100 Aboriginal people? Not those who pulled the trigger, according to the Enquiry. Instead it was 'a woman missionary living amongst naked blacks'. This was Annie Lock, the 'whistle-blower' who caused the ...Show more
The Art of Fire by Jimmy Pike (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art
Australia is a land of fire. Fire has shaped its landscapes and played a role in the evolution of its plants and animals. Aboriginal people have always made and managed fire: in the domestic hearth, as an aid to hunting and to promote the growth of food plants. This is both a book of art and a first-han ...Show more