A Question of Colour: my journey to belonging by Patricia Lees
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'These two children have been in our Home in Townsville for more than two years, and in view of their very dark colouring, have not been assimilated into the white race. Every effort has been made to place them in a foster home without success because of their colour.' Queensland State Children's Depart ...Show more
Coming Home To Country Book and Puzzle Set: Coming Home To Country by Bronwyn Bancroft
$26.99 AUD
Category: Activity books, Puzzles, Games
A stunning picture book and puzzle set from Australia's foremost indigenous illustrator.Run to the creek, perch on a rock, slip into clear crystal water. A visual and lyrical depiction of coming home to country from acclaimed author and illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft.
Where The Fruit Falls by Karen Wyld
$28.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An ancient ocean roars under the red dirt. Hush. Be still for just a moment. Hear its thunder-ing waves crashing on unseen shores. Spanning four generations, with a focus on the 1960s and 70s, an era of rapid social change and burgeoning Aboriginal rights, Where the Fruit Falls is a re-imagining of the ...Show more
Black Politics: Inside the Complexity of Aboriginal Political Culture by Sarah Maddison
$43.99 AUD
Category: General
Why do Aboriginal communities struggle so hard to be heard in mainstream politics? How do remote and urban communities respond to frequent dramatic shifts in federal and state Aboriginal policies? Since the early 1990s Aboriginal Australia has experienced profound political changes with very real and la ...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
Beyond Borders: Patrick Tjungurrayi by Hetti Perkins, John Carty, Sarah Brown
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
Ala. Alatuti. Oloodoodi. Patrick. Tjungurray. He is a man of many names, and they speak to many lives lived. Each handle gets held for a while in different times and places. He was a young warrior by his first name, but by each of his subsequent names he has stood just as proud. By each of those names h ...Show more
Writing in the Sand by Matt Garrick
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Words are easy, words are cheap / Much cheaper than our priceless land / But promises can disappear / Just like writing in the sand -- From Yothu Yindi's 1992 ARIA Song of the Year, 'Treaty' Sometimes a musical revolution can explode from the most unlikely of places. Long before they were ARIA Hall of F ...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
Sorry Day by Coral Vass
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children
There was a hum of excitement. Flags flickered in the breeze as Maggie's heart danced with delight. 'This is a very special day!' her mother said. Maggie holds tight to her mother as they await the long anticipated apology to show a willingness to reconcile the past for future generations. In the excite ...Show more
Marrul: Aboriginal Identity & the Fight for Rights by Inala Cooper
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
What does reconciliation and truth-telling look like, and how do we as a nation find justice for Indigenous people?In this deeply personal work, Inala Cooper shares stories of her family to show the impact of colonisation on the lives of Aboriginal people from the 1940s to now. She reveals the struggles ...Show more
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 Boy from Boomerang Crescent by Eddie Betts
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
It’s a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG. How does a self-described ‘skinny Aboriginal kid’ overcome a legacy of family tragedy to become an AFL legend? One thing’s for sure: it’s not easy. But then, there’s always been something special about Eddie Betts. Betts grew up in Port Lincoln and K ...Show more