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Forgotten War
$30.00 AUD
'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...
Van Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal History
The history of Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation for as many as 300 generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. Their struggle...
Native Title in Australia: An Ethnographic Perspective
Native title has often been one of the most controversial political, legal and indeed moral issues in Australia. Ever since the High Court's Mabo decision of 1992, the attempt to...
Always Was, Always Will Be: The Campaign for Justice and Recognition
In Always Was, Always Will Be , bestselling author Thomas Mayo investigates 'what's next?' for reconciliation and justice in Australia after the failed October 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum. Since...
Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and
For most of Australia's colonial history its indigenous people have been denied full membership in Australian society. This book examines the history of their citizenship status and asks whether it...
Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia
$200.00 AUD
Indigenous concepts of time play a critical role in the works of many contemporary Australian artists. Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia showcases prime examples, featuring many...
Tangki Tjuta - Donkeys
SHORTLISTED: 2024 Chief Minister's NT Book Awards, Children's/YA Books Long, long ago, we didn't have donkeys. We didn't have a lot of the things we have today. We didn't know...
Weaving Country
Stunning picture book celebrating working together, sharing important lessons from Country, and featuring First Nations language 'Around and around they go,' says Walert looking at Gugung's hands turning the wheel...
The Trees: Learning Tree Knowledge with Uncle Kuu
Take a walk with Uncle Kuu in The Trees , a picture book about caring for Country and respect for Indigenous knowledge. Looking after the trees is important for keeping...
Gunyah, Goondie & Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia
$200.00 AUD
When Europeans first reached Australian shores, an expedient and long-held belief developed that Australian Aboriginal people did not have houses or towns. Instead it was believed that they occupied temporary...
Afloat
Roam the water with me. We are here to learn. Here to spin wisdom, to grow ... From award-winning Gunai author Kirli Saunders and seven-time CBCA-winner Freya Blackwood comes Afloat...
Women & Children
A powerful, personal novel about women, children and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed writers. It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb...
The Stranger Artist: Life at the Edge of Kimberley Painting
Winner of the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. Set amid the striking landscapes of the East Kimberley, The Stranger Artist is an evocative and enthralling account of a...
Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention:
When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks...
We Didn't Think It Through
WINNER: 2024 MARION ACT Book of the Year, Books for Older Readers WINNER: 2024 Readings Young Adult Prize S HORTLISTED: 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young...
Boarding and Australia's First Peoples: Understanding How Residential
This book takes us inside the complex lived experience of being a First Nations student in predominantly non-Indigenous schools in Australia. Built around the first-hand narratives of Aboriginal and Torres...
Backyard Tennis
Follow a cast of sport-loving kids as they hop through the backyards of their neighbourhood in the Kimberley, collecting equipment and friends to play with as they go, from award-winning...
Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route
The Aboriginal people of Australia's Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining...
It's Not the Money it's the Land
As a result of the 1965 Equal Wages Case, Aboriginal people in Australia's north were forced into unemployment and off their country into refugee camps on the fringes of the...
Australia's Agricultural Identity - an Aboriginal yarn
Putting culture back in Agriculture. A young, entrepreneurial Worimi man leaps into the discussion of agriculture on this land on which we live, its past, but more importantly, its future....
Back on the Block: Bill Simon's Story
Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon's was not a normal childhood. He was told his mother didn't want him that he was 'the...
Gone for a Song: A Death in Custody on Palm Island
Happily drunk and singing, Mulrunji, a popular member of Palm Island's Aboriginal community, was picked up by the police. Between the paddy wagon and the cells, there was an altercation...
Washpool
A magical middle-grade adventure about two sisters who need to rely on their own wits and each other when they're pulled into a new world, from black&write! fellow and bestselling...
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000
A comprehensive and accessible overview and analysis of government policy and practice in relation to the removal of indigenous children in Australia. This major work - the first of its...
Brightest Wild
A gently lyrical story about discovering Country and the importance of family, friendship and the magic of the bush, from an emerging Indigenous talent and winner of a black&write! Fellowship....
First Footprints: The Epic Story of the First Australians
Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic...
Gagudju Man: the Environmental and Spiritual Philosophy of a Senior
Here, Bill Neidjie - manager and negotiator of the Bunitj Clan Estate, which forms part of Kakadu National Park, relives the past in order to give some meaningful structure to...
Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?
Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span...
A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth:
The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia's original peoples? The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries,...
The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the
Peter Sutton is a fearless and authoritative voice in Aboriginal politics. In this ground breaking book, Peter Sutton asks why, after three decades of liberal thinking, has the suffering and...
Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia
$12.00 AUD
This work reviews in detail the relations between mining and indigenous peoples in diverse national, political, and cultural settings. With case studies from five nations and covering gold, uranium, diamonds,...
Walkabout Chefs
Some of Australia's rare and protected animals are the subject of a new, beautifully-photographed book that dares to cook up dishes that include dugong, turtle, stingray and goanna. Walkabout Chefs...
Mabu Mabu: An Australian Kitchen Cookbook
In Mabu Mabu , charismatic First Nations chef Nornie Bero champions the tastes of native flavours in everyday cooking by unlocking the secrets of Australian herbs, spices, vegetables and fruits....
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
$24.99 AUD
An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on...
First Nations Food Companion: How to buy, cook, eat and grow Indigenous Australian ingredients
Winner of the Indie Illustrated Book of the Year; shortlisted for the ABIA Illustrated Book of the Year 'This book brings ancient foods into the modern kitchen. Every page is...
Karkalla at Home: Native foods & everyday recipes for connecting to Country
'The essence of Australia.' - Bruce Pascoe 'Destined to be a classic.' - Yvonne C Lam, The Guardian 'Karkalla is vibrant, bold and delicious, but the most special part is...
Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue
'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my childhood I was deeply unhappy. I feel...
We Didn't Think It Through
WINNER: 2024 MARION ACT Book of the Year, Books for Older Readers WINNER: 2024 Readings Young Adult Prize S HORTLISTED: 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young...
First Footprints: The Epic Story of the First Australians
Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic...
King Brown Country: The betrayal of Papunya
'Why don't you check out Papunya? It's the sniffing capital of Australia, it's a Bermuda triangle for taxpayer funds. Nobody in the NT government gives a rats. The council just...
Treading Lightly: The hidden wisdom of the world's oldest people
We are consuming more than our earth can provide. In Australia, cities and towns struggle to maintain a reliable water supply, climate change triggers droughts which devastate farmland, and fish...
The Pit: By the author of THE STONING, "The crime debut of the year"
"Outback noir has a new star" Mark Sanderson, The Times"A rising star of crime fiction" Joan Smith, Sunday Times"Delivers another larger-than-life, take-no-prisoners slice of outback noir. A truly original writer"...
The Pit: By the author of THE STONING, "The crime debut of the year"
"Outback noir has a new star" Mark Sanderson, The TimesWith DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn...
The Pit: By the author of THE STONING, "The crime debut of the year"
"Outback noir has a new star" Mark Sanderson, The TimesWith DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn...
The Invisible: A Greek holiday escape becomes a dark investigation; a
"Outback noir has a new star" The TimesBurnt-out from policework, Detective Sergeant George Manolis flies from Australia to Greece for a holiday. Recently divorced and mourning the death of his...