New Platform Papers 2 After the Heart - Australia's National Cultural Policy by Josephine Caust; Tyson Yunkaporta; Noel Pearson; Eddie Synot; Sally Scales; Rachael Maza; Harriet Parsons (Editor); Julian Meyrick (Editor)
$31.99 AUD
Category: First Nations' Voices | Series: Platform Papers
How will the implementation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart inform the National Cultural Policy? Volume 2 of the New Platform Papers, After 'The Heart', starts the conversation in a long essay by a leader in the performing arts in Australia, Jo Caust, with passionate orations from First Nations le ...Show more
No Longer a Wandering Spirit: Family and kin reclaiming the memory of Minang woman Bessie Flowers by Sharon Huebner, Ezzard Flowers
$39.99 AUD
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
Nomad Girl: My life on the gibber plains and beyond by Kanakiya Myra Ah Chee
$39.95 AUD
Category: First Nations' Voices
‘Oodnadatta Country – I can still see it, in my mind’s eye, exactly as it was back in my time. The ‘There are so many stories to tell of my life, and sometimes I think they are not of importance, but they are, because often it is the little details that are the most important. I still remember every det ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946–1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
$29.99 AUD
Category: First Nations' Voices | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of ...Show more
Pathfinders by Michael Bennett
$34.99 AUD
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
Purple Threads: First Nations Classics by Jeanine Leane, Evelyn Araluen
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Nations' Voices
Winner of the David Unaipon Award, an engaging, moving and often funny yarn about growing up in the home of two Aunties running a sheep farm in rural Gundagai.Growing up in the shifting landscape of Gundagai with her Nan and Aunties, Sunny spends her days playing on the hills near their farmhouse and he ...Show more
Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories by Shauna Bostock
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations' Voices
The powerful story of a Bundjalung woman's journey to uncover her family history. The phone rang unexpectedly late one night. 'Guess who our white ancestors were?' chuckled Uncle Gerry. 'They were slave traders! A couple of generations of slave traders!' With this startling revelation, Shauna wanted to ...Show more
Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson
$36.95 AUD
Category: First Nations' Voices
Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into pra ...Show more
Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation (New Edition) by Jackie Huggins
$29.99 AUD
Category: First Nations' Voices
A new edition of Murri historian and activist Jackie Huggins' seminal Tiddaist classic, featuring timely and compelling speeches and essays. The pieces in this seminal collection represent almost four decades of writing by historian and activist Jackie Huggins. These essays, speeches and interviews com ...Show more
Statements from the Soul: The Moral Case for the Uluru Statement from the Heart by Shireen Morris, Damien Freeman
$32.99 AUD
Category: First Nations' Voices
A collection of passionate essays from religious leaders arguing for a First Nations Voice to be enshrined in the Australian Constitution. In this ground-breaking collection of essays, diverse religious leaders and thinkers come together to advocate for the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Contributors ...Show more
Teaching the Nation - Politics and Pedagogy in Australian History by Anna Clark
$49.99 AUD
Category: First Nations' Voices | Series: MUP Academic Monograph Ser.
The 'History Wars' have come to dominate discussion of Australian history in recent years, and have been waged over various national sites of celebration and commemoration.Anna Clark suggests that this anxiety over Australia's past has intensified as debate grows over how to teach 'our history' to 'our ...Show more
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
$22.99 AUD
Category: First Nations' Voices
Terra Nullius (def): land belonging to no one; no man's land "Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was ...Show more