Writing in the Sand by Matt Garrick
Category: First Nations Voices
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
Lies, Damned Lies: A personal exploration of the impact of colonisation by Claire G. Coleman
Category: First Nations Voices
'This is a difficult piece to write. It cuts closer to the bone than most of what I have written; closer to my bones, through my blood and flesh to the bones of truth and country; there is truth here, not disguised but in the open and that truth hurts.' In Lies, Damned Lies acclaimed author Claire G. ...Show more
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need by Thomas Mayo, Kerry O'Brien
Category: First Nations Voices
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
Pathfinders by Michael Bennett
Category: First Nations Voices
There are few Aboriginal icons in White Australia history.From the explorer to the pioneer, the swagman to the drover's wife, with a few bushrangers for good measure, Europeans play all the leading roles. A rare exception is the redoubtable tracker. With skills passed down over millennia, trackers could ...Show more
Gigorou: It’s Time to Reclaim Beauty. First Nations Wisdom and Womanhood by Sasha Kutabah Sarago
Category: First Nations Voices
'You're too pretty to be Aboriginal' is a shocking statement Sasha Kutabah Sarago experienced at a young age. In her 2020 TEDx talk, 'The (de)colonising of beauty', Sasha shares how she reclaimed her femininity by redefining beauty. In challenging our modern-day concepts of beauty from a First Nations w ...Show more
The Good Country - The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood
Category: First Nations Voices | Series: Australian History Ser.
Beyond the generalisations of national and colonial history, what can we know about how Aboriginal nations interacted with the British settlers who invaded their country, the men appointed by the imperial and colonial governments to protect them, and each other?In The Good Country Bain Attwood makes a m ...Show more
Australian Dreaming: 40,000 years of Aboriginal History by Jennifer Isaacs
Category: First Nations Voices
Australian Dreaming is the first Aboriginal history of the Australian continent and its people, as told by Aboriginal storytellers. It recounts epic travels of the Great Spirit Ancestors and tells how they created the animals and plants and gave birth to the earliest people of this land.
Sorry and Beyond: Healing the Stolen Generations by Brian Butler, John Bond
Category: First Nations Voices
Brian Butler’s grandmother was taken from her family in 1910. She was 12 years old. Twenty years later her daughter, Brian’s mother, was taken.Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, like Brian Butler’s, have been coping with the trauma of child removal for more than a century. Sorr ...Show more
Two Cultures, One Story by Robert Isaacs
Category: First Nations Voices
'I stood at the school gates with nothing but the clothes on my back. I had no money, no family, no home — nothing to show for the past 16 years except my cheap cardboard suitcase and a reasonable grasp of reading, writing and arithmetic … I didn't know what I was going to do next, but I knew that whate ...Show more
Dreamers by Ezekiel Kwaymullina; Sally Morgan (Illustrator)
Category: First Nations Voices
We are the dream and the dreamers - so begins this beautifully written story that celebrates the imagination of children at play. Complemented by Sally Morgan's rich and colourful illustrations, the book is full of movement. It lends itself to interactive reading aloud with play-acting or actions.
Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia: A Noctuary by Dianne Johnson
Category: First Nations Voices
Written by anthropologist Diane Johnson, Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia has been in demand since its publication in 1998. It is a record of the stars and planets which pass across the night-time skies. This noctuary holds not only a record of what appears in the skies and how Aboriginal people see ...Show more
No Longer a Wandering Spirit: Family and kin reclaiming the memory of Minang woman Bessie Flowers by Sharon Huebner, Ezzard Flowers
Category: First Nations Voices
Bessy Flowers is a hero of mine, and I’m very glad she’s at the centre of a book that features her images and writing, along with the remarkable journey to situate her in family and Country. - Kim Scott Kia Kia, Noogiting Wirren, Minang Yorga, Minang Boodja No longer a wandering spirit acknowledges t ...Show more