Gurawul the Whale An ancient story for our time by Max Dulumunmun Harrison
$35.00 AUD
Category: First Nations/Indigenous Australia
‘When I was 10 years old, I was given Gurawul’s story by my grandfather Muns…in the dirt…they made me promise to go to the southern land and search for the whale dreaming. I had no idea what it meant or that it would take me 70 years to keep it.’ — Uncle Max HarrisonMore than 70 years ago, the ancient l ...Show more
In My Blood it Runs: History. Learning. Love. Resistance by Dujuan Hoosan, Margaret Anderson, Carol Turner
$26.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction
This is the story of Dujuan Hoosan, a 10-year-old Arrernte and Garawa boy. A wise, funny, cheeky boy. A healer. Out bush, his healing power (Ngangkere) is calm and straight. But in town, it's wobbly and wild, like a snake. He's in trouble at school, and with the police. He thinks there's something wrong ...Show more
Human?: A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia by Russell Marks
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations/Indigenous Australia
How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more ...Show more
The Drover's Wife by Leah Purcell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Drover's Wife is utterly authentic, brilliantly plotted, thoroughly harrowing and entirely of our times exploring race, gender, violence and inheritance.Deep in the heart of Australia's high country, along an ancient, hidden track, lives Molly Johnson and her four surviving children, another on the ...Show more
Southern Aurora by Mark Brandi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
We always listen out for the train when we're down in the cutting because sometimes they come quicker than you expect. There aren't as many trains as there used to be. Mostly just the freight ones, like the one that nearly killed us on the bus . . . The best train is the Southern Aurora. It goes all the ...Show more
Big Rain Coming by Katrina Germein
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Everyone in the Australian Outback is waiting for the rain to fall. Old Stephen says that it will come.
Red Dust Rising - The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga by Marion Houldsworth; Les Hiddins (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This is the inspiring story of a northern cattleman who built up the Urapunga cattle station from nothing. From the 1950s to the 1990s, he lived rough and worked hard. He worked closely with the tribal Aborigines, made Urapunga a dry station, coped with the many crocodiles in the Roper River, fought aga ...Show more
Mr Todd's Marvel: How one man telegraphed Australia to the modern world by Adam Courtenay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In 1855 Charles Todd had a bold dream to build a telegraph line across Australia to connect it to the world. By 1870, Singapore had joined the global network: now for Australia. Todd and his men succesfully erected thousands of telegraph poles - one every 80 metres - across land that was relentlessly in ...Show more
Innovation : Knowledge and Ingenuity (First Knowledges) by Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell
$24.99 AUD
Category: First Nations/Indigenous Australia | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard FlanaganWhat do you need to know to prosper as a ...Show more
Songs from the Kitchen Table: Lyrics and Stories by Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The ultimate illustrated commemoration of iconic Australian musicians, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter - including lyrics, stories, photographs and tributes. A year after he entered the Dreamtime, Archie Roach's spirit continues to soar, much like the wedge-tailed eagle - his totem animal from his mother' ...Show more
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
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