Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia by Bruce Pascoe, Vicky Shukuroglou
$45.00 AUD
Category: New History
Loving Country is a book that inspires ultimate respect for Mother Earth and the role of her custodians. While readers are encouraged to discover the sacred country of Australia in an open-minded and sensitive manner, the intention of this book is to foster communication and understanding between all pe ...Show more
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need by Thomas Mayo, Kerry O'Brien
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means. 'We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people f ...Show more
Aunty Pat Ockwell Tells Her Story by Autny Pat Ockwell
$85.00 AUD
Category: New Biography
Aunty Pat Ockwell is an senior Wurundjeri elder. For decades she's been a tireless worker for Aboriginal rights and an important figure in organisations like Aboriginal Housing Victoria and the Koori Court. In her new memoir, written with Pauline Mackinnon, Aunty Pat is telling her story: not ju ...Show more
Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island by Rebe Taylor
$39.95 AUD
Category: New History
It is relatively well known that the Palawa community of Tasmania is mostly descended from the Aboriginal Tasmanian women who sealers took to the Bass Strait Islands in the early nineteenth century. But few people know that sealers also took Tasmanian women to Kangaroo Island, establishing a cross-cultu ...Show more
Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
$19.95 AUD
Category: New Biography | Series: Nungar
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jig ...Show more
Speaking My Mind by WARREN MUNDINE
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
After undergoing heart surgery in 2012 and facing his own mortality, Warren Mundine didn't feel he had time to pussyfoot around anymore. He realised he mightn't get another chance to say what he thought. By that time in his life he had already delivered dozens of speeches and written numerous newspaper ...Show more
Growing up Wiradjuri by Heiss, Anita
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
'These stories form part of our collective history, the way we speak of and live culture still today, and the importance of passing on such stories to younger generations.' — Dr. Anita Heiss, Ed.Growing up Wiradjuri is a collection of personal stories by Wiradjuri Elders. The writers are Uncles and Aunt ...Show more
Broken Spear: The untold story of Black Tom Birch, the man who sparked Australia's bloodiest war by Robert Cox
$39.95 AUD
Category: New History
Black Tom Birch was the most feared and hated man in Van Diemen's Land. For four years he kept the colony in a state of terror. He was responsible for the deaths of dozens of settlers. He burnt their buildings and destroyed their livestock and crops. Newspapers raged against him. One demanded he be lync ...Show more
Kulin Tales by Sonia Marie
$26.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Information Books
Learn the Seven Seasons that belong to Bunurong country.. Bunurong People are Indigenous people from South East Victoria Australia. They are part of the Kulin Nation. Read stories entwined with history, knowledge and Traditional Language and see what animals and plants belong in each season. Look to the ...Show more
Took the Children Away by Archie Roach
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
Archie Roach AM's deeply personal song, 'Took the Children Away', from his 1990 debut album, Charcoal Lane, was the first song ever to receive a prestigious Australian Human Rights Award. Its impact was immediate, shining a stark light on Australia's shameful past practices of removing children from the ...Show more
Heroes, Rebels and Innovators: Inspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from history (HB) (CBCA Winner 2022) by Karen Wyld
$26.99 AUD
Category: New Inspiration
Powerful and inspiring: here are seven stirring stories about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who helped shape Australia. Each colourful spread in this illustrated book tells the story of incredible Indigenous Australians - such as Patyegarang, the young Darug woman who taught a First Fleet ...Show more
Writing in the Sand by Matt Garrick
$45.00 AUD
Category: New 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