Loongie the Greedy Crocodile by Lucy and Kiefer Dann
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children
Loongie is a greedy saltwater crocodile who lives among the mangroves at Walaman Creek in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia. He has no friends and no-one will come near the creek while he's around. Loongie soon learns why being greedy has its consequences. Ages 4+. (SA: Reception - Year 2 ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sag ...Show more
A Question of Colour: my journey to belonging by Patricia Lees
$28.99 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
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
Artists of the Western Desert
$85.00 AUD
Category: History
This is a book of portrait studies of more than 80 senior artists of the Western Desert art movement. Each stunning full-page portrait, reproduced in duotone, is accompanied on its opposite page by an example of the artists work. The photographers have made a number of journeys to significant Indigenous ...Show more
Bubbay A Christmas Adventure by Josie Wowolla Boyle
$21.00 AUD
Category: Children
Bubbay lives in the outback spending his days protecting a herd of goats from dingoes. He sleeps in his swag under the stars and the only person he visits is Mrs Timms for chicken's eggs. One night, just before Christmas, Bubbay wishes for something he has never had. His friends, the stars hear him and, ...Show more
Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Henry Reynolds
$18.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Raised by missionaries, Jimmie Blacksmith, a young half-castle Aboriginal man, is poignantly caught between the ways of his black forefathers and those of the white society to which he aspires. Exploited by his boss and betrayed by his [white] wife, he declares war on his white employers and goes on a v ...Show more
Papunya Painting by National Museum of Australia Press; Vivienne Johnson (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art
Presenting the National Museum of Australia's collection of Papunya Tula art, this volume situates these works in place and time, providing unique insight into the Papunya artists' lives and cultures, and how these were expressed and mediated through their art.
Sand and StonePigeon by Kevin James Moran
$41.99 AUD
Category: History
"This is Pigeon's story and of those who suffered his reign of terror and the men who hunted him."--Back cover.
The Original Australians - Story of the Aboriginal people by Josephine Flood
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This fascinating and intelligent volume tells the remarkable story of Australian Aboriginal history from its distant beginnings in the age of Dreamtime, through the first contact with Europeans and other outsiders, right up to the present day. "The Original Australians" offers stunning insights into the ...Show more
Yarning Strong Land Anthology by Oxford University Press Staff
$19.95 AUD
Category: General
Yarning Strong aims to reach out and engage all young people - both indigenous and non-indigenous - and deepen their awareness and understanding of what it is really like to be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person living in contemporary Australia. The series provides explicit Aboriginal and To ...Show more