If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed by Margaret Tucker
$32.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
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
First Knowledges Plants: Past, Present and Future by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head
$24.99 AUD
Category: First Nations | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Plants are the foundation of life on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always known thi ...Show more
Living on Stolen Land by Ambelin Kwaymullina
$24.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
You are on Indigenous lands, swimming in Indigenous waters, looking up at Indigenous skies. Living on Stolen Land is a verse-styled look at our colonial-settler ‘present’. This book is the first of its kind to address and educate a broad audience about the colonial contextual history of Australia, in a ...Show more
Finding Our Heart: A Story about the Uluru Statement for Young Australians by Thomas Mayo
$26.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
Author Thomas Mayor's journey around Australia with the Uluru Statement has been a moving experience. In particular, when he visited schools he was inspired by the children he spoke with. Unlike past generations, Australian children today are learning Indigenous languages, seasons and the truth of this ...Show more
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling: First Nations Classics by Larissa Behrendt, Fiona Foley
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Nations | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt uses Eliza's tale as a s ...Show more
Writing in the Sand by Matt Garrick
$36.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
The epic story of legendary band Yothu Yindi and 'Treaty', the song that gave voice to a movement WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY YALMAY YUNUPINGU & WITIYANA MARIKA Sometimes a musical revolution can erupt from the most unlikely of places. Long before they were ARIA Hall of Fame inductees, Yothu Yindi wer ...Show more
Bitin' Back: First Nations Classics by Melissa Lucashenko, Vivienne Cleven
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Nations | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Funny but ...Show more
Unbranded: First Nations Classics by Herb Wharton, Kev Carmody
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Nations | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
Written by the legendary Queensland drover Herb Wharton, this is a striking vision of outback Australia- the friendship story of three stockmen working on mulga country in the far west.Herb Wharton, former drover, now celebrated author, unleashes a strikingly original vision of outback Australia- from t ...Show more
The Window Seat: First Nations Classics by Archie Weller, Ernie Dingo
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Nations | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
Runner-up for the inaugural Vogel Award in 1980, Archie Weller is a master storyteller. In these short stories, take a seat and rethink what it means to be Australian.Since Archie Weller was runner-up for the first Vogel Award in 1980 for his novel The Day of the Dog, he has become an important voice in ...Show more
Smoke Encrypted Whispers: First Nations Classics by Samuel Wagan Watson, Tony Birch
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Nations | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
Reading this book is, as Tony Birch points out, 'like witnessing Bruce Springsteen meet the Dreamtime'.Smoke Encrypted Whispers showcases Samuel Wagan Watson's imaginative brilliance and exceptional poetic skills. In this book, which also includes work from three previous collections, his poems pulse wi ...Show more
Plains of Promise: First Nations Classics by Alexis Wright
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Nations | Series: First Nations Classics
In this brilliant, wide-ranging novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page.In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland's far North, black and white cultures collide in a t ...Show more