If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed by Margaret Tucker
Category: First Nations Voices
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a landmark publication. In that first edition, her tone and draft content were significantly al ...Show more
Drinking In The Rivers Vol I The memorable pubs and unforgettable characters of the Murray and Edward Rivers by Colin Whelan
Category: Australian Culture
Since time immemorial rivers have been the arteries of Australia's red heart and the river defined not just the landscape but also the people. Colin Whelan travelled to many memorable pubs along the Murray and its branch, the Edward. So many of these hotels are both rich in their own character and filed ...Show more
Aussie Talk: Australian Slang-uage: Sayings, Slang and Idiom, the Aussie way by Paul Bugeja
Category: Australian Culture
The Aussies use them every day, some of them more than others. They make their conversations colourful and interesting, loud and bright, rich and rare...and sometimes seemingly foreign or incomprehensible to visitors to their shores. They derive from a variety of cultural, historical and ethnic sources, ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day by Stan Grant
Category: First Nations Voices
The latest critically acclaimed bestseller from Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day, The Queen is Dead is an extraordinary and powerful call to action. Longlisted for the 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awar ...Show more
Woolsheds (Volume #1) by Andrew Chapman (Photographer)
Category: Australian Culture
A photographic documentary of the wool industry across Australia, featuring the work of renowned photographer Andrew Chapman.
Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 by Richard Broome
Category: First Nations Voices
The story of how Victoria's First Nations people survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. This second edition has been fully updated, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy ...Show more
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage
Category: First Nations Voices
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far ...Show more
Talking To My Country: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant
Category: First Nations Voices
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. When Stan Grant was born in Australia in 1963, the national census classed him and his family among the country's flora and fauna. As Aboriginal Australians, their history and culture had been suppressed for centuries. A ...Show more
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
Category: First Nations Voices
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 cele ...Show more
Renniks Stamps of Australia 17th Edition (Fully Revised) - The Leading Guide for Australian Stamps 1850-2020 by Mickel Smits (Revised by, Editor); Michael Pitt (Designed by, (various roles), Editorial Coordinator, Editor, Illustrator)
Category: Australian Culture
Renniks Stamps of Australia 17th Edition is Australia's best selling philatelic guide.This comprehensive guide to Australian stamps, now in its 17th edition, covers issues all the way up to 31/12/2020. With 320 pages, 3,800 images and countless thousands of valuations, this book is a valuable reference ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
Category: First Nations Voices | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
Category: First Nations Voices
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more