In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the Australian Frontier by Amanda Nettelbeck
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native Police in Central Australia during the 1880s. Notorious for the violence of his patrols, he was eventually tried in 1891 for the murder of two Aboriginal men, and was posted to an even more remote frontier in the Top End. During his time in ...Show more
The Bat and the Crocodile by DOLUMYU AND JANDANY
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children | Series: Aboriginal Story Ser.
This story comes from the Aboriginal people at Warmun (Turkey Creek) in Western Australia. It was told in the Kija language by Jacko Dolumyu and then in English by Hector Jandany. The illustrations are adapted from paintings of the story done by the children living at Warmun. Eileen Bray, of the Kija La ...Show more
Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 by Richard Broome
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A powerful history of black and white encounters in Australia since colonization. This is a fully updated edition (fourth edition).
This is My Country by Ingetje Tadros
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
This Is My Country looks at people standing on the precipice of life: disenfranchised, neglected and now threatened with displacement. It is a permanent record intended to bring attention to the plight of Aboriginal communities under threat. It will serve as a call to Australian society to support their ...Show more
Under a Bilari Tree I Born by Bilari Smith Alice
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Alice Bilari Smith lived in the Pilbara, on stations and in the bush, on government reserves and in towns. Narrowly avoiding removal from her family by 'the Welfare', life on the stations taught her to cook and launder, sew and clean, shoe horses, chop wood and milk cows. As a young married woman she ad ...Show more
Dingo's Tree by Gladys Milroy, Jill Milroy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children
This is the story of Dingo, Wombat, Crow and their friends as they struggle to exist alongside the devastation of mining that is tearing up their beautiful homeland. This powerful children's parable/cautionary tale on the destruction and havoc that mining causes to the land and to community is both touc ...Show more
Going Home Stories by Archie Weller
$23.99 AUD
Category: General
Reissue of a collection of short stories by this Aboriginal writer. When first published in 1986, Adam Shoemaker described the stories as Tone of the most singular and impressive collections of contemporary stories to appear in Australia'.
Original Australians (The) by Josephine Flood
$38.99 AUD
Category: General
The Original Australians tells the story of Australian Aboriginal history and society from its distant beginnings to the present day. From the wisdom and paintings of the Dreamtime, to the first contacts between Europeans and indigenous Australians, right through to modern times, it offers an insight in ...Show more
Homeland Calling: Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices by Desert Pea Media
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
With lyrics rich in rhyme, Homeland Calling is a hip-hop poetry collection that channels culture and challenges stereotypes. The words have all been written by First Nations youth from remote and regional communities around Australia, edited by award-winning author and poet Ellen van Neerven, and brough ...Show more
Talking Strong: The National Aboriginal Educational Committee and the development of Aboriginal educational policy by Leanne Holt
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
By the late 1960s, Indigenous education in Australia was in crisis. When Whitlam swept to power in 1972, his Labor government reached out to Indigenous people to guide change at a national level. The National Aboriginal Education Committee was the result. This comprehensive history by Leanne Holt traces ...Show more
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and cel ...Show more
The Drover's Wife by Leah Purcell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Leah Purcell's play caused a sensation on performance and won the NSW Premier's Prize Book of the Year and now she is expanding that play and a film script to write a novel that while still 'Tarantino meets Deadwood' is also so much more. In the titular character The Drover's Wife, Purcell has created a ...Show more