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    2025 A Secret World
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    2025 A Secret World

    A Parisian dream... We have created this beautiful Calendar called A Secret World in collaboration with Elise Hurst.
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    Cursed Shards
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    Cursed Shards

    Be careful what you wish for...We've all heard childhood fairy tales and hearthside stories passed from generation to generation warning us of unseen dangers lurking in the dark forest, the glimpse of a future in watery reflections and to be wary of...
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    Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3

    In the story that first established the monstrous cosmic terrors of his Mythos, writer H. P. Lovecraft said, "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity..." Which makes it all the more fitting that the adepts of...
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    Killer Creatures Down Under
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    Killer Creatures Down Under

    Australia: the land where everything wants to kill you. A continent filled with some of the deadliest animals in the world. From creepy-crawlies to crocodiles, you'll have plenty to fear in this anthology penned by Australian authors. Killer...
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    Indigenous Artists
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    Indigenous Artists

    Collection of indigenous art, full colour hardcover over 100 pieces of art, painting and sculpture.The Torch Collection showcases extraordinary artworks by Indigenous men and women who have come in contact with the criminal justice system in...
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    Time Flies / Time Flies Too
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    Time Flies / Time Flies Too

    Enjoy all of Al Clark's absorbing recollections in this combined bundle of both of his memoirs.Time FliesTime Fliesis an idiosyncratic memoir with a distinctive voice and a sense of the absurd: a wistful, reflective, sometimes comic view of a...
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    Farewell to Robert
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    Farewell to Robert

    Two men, Robert and Vras, met in 1993 and formed a committed relationship until Robert's death of leukemia in May, 2022. This short book is a farewell letter to Robert, a long lamentation and a threnody, exploring the nature of their friendship, their...
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    Late Night Shopping

    These are poems that reflect many aspects of the human condition and the individual, from poems about love and death, the family, science, the natural world and historical figures such as Ned Kelly and Charles Darwin. Her sequence on Ned Kelly...
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    In Exile from St Petersburg
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    In Exile from St Petersburg

    With a passport stamped 'never to return', St Petersburg intellectual and publisher Abram Kagan was expelled by Lenin in 1922, ending up in Berlin, where his young son Anatol would read the proofs of Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution. But...
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    Time Flies Too
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    Time Flies Too

    Time Flies Too is the sequel to 2021's beguiling and absorbing memoir Time Flies by Al Clark, who in its last paragraph married and settled in Australia after a Spanish village childhood, a Scottish boarding school education and nearly two decades of...
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    ngargee  Coming together to celebrate
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    ngargee Coming together to celebrate

    Aboriginal art practice in southeast Australia is dynamic, innovative and powerful. This is clear from the diverse artworks in this book which celebrate contemporary Aboriginal artists and their continuation of Ancestral knowledge. The artworks shown are...
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    Yaru! Gudjal Learner's Guide and Dictionary
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    Yaru! Gudjal Learner's Guide and Dictionary

    Gudjal is the language of the people of the Mural (Charters Towers) region, in western inland north Queensland. The beginnings of this dictionary and learner's guide were in the 1970s when Gudjal people began working with linguists to record their...
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    Country Women and the Colour Bar

    Country women and the colour bar is a timely corrective to established ideas about race relations in rural New South Wales by revealing the untold story of grassroots efforts by Aboriginal and white women, working together.In the 1950s and 1960s, in...
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    A Record in Bone
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    A Record in Bone

    Bone and tooth tools and ornaments have been made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for at least 46,000 years some of the oldest organic technologies in the world. Despite their beauty, sophistication, and ubiquity, archaeologists and...
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    The Difference Identity Makes
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    The Difference Identity Makes

    Through the struggles of Indigenous Australians for recognitionand self-determination it has become common sense tounderstand Australia as made up of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and things. But in what ways is the Indigenous on-Indigenous...
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    Ngarinyman to English Dictionary
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    Ngarinyman to English Dictionary

    Ngarinyman is an Aboriginal language of the northern VictoriaRiver District in the Northern Territory (Australia). ManyNgarinyman people live in Yarralin, Bulla Camp, Amanbidji(Kildurk) and around Timber Creek. The Ngarinyman to EnglishDictionary...
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    Sorry and Beyond
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    Sorry and Beyond

    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...
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    Mawng Dictionary
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    Mawng Dictionary

    Mawng is a language of western Arnhem Land. It is the main language of Warruwi community and is spoken by all generations. Mawng is associated with the islands Warruwi and Weyirra (North and South Goulburn Islands) and an area of the mainland near the...
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    The Dhurga Dictionary and Learners Grammar
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    The Dhurga Dictionary and Learners Grammar

    The Dhurga Dictionary and Learners Grammar: A South-East Coast NSW Aboriginal Language is an overdue and extremely valuable resource for the Dhurga speaking people of Yuin Country and of any person wanting to learn the traditional language. The Dhurga...
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    Conflict, adaptation, transformation
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    Conflict, adaptation, transformation

    This collection traces the legacy of Richard Broome's pathbreaking work in Aboriginal history by presenting innovative work that assesses and transforms a broad range of important debates that have captured both scholarly and popular attention in recent...
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    Warlpiri Encyclopaedic Dictionary
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    Warlpiri Encyclopaedic Dictionary

    Warlpiri is a language of the Tanami Desert area of the Northern Territory of Australia. Hundreds of Warlpiri speakers from the main Warlpiri communities of Yuendumu, Willowra, Lajamanu, Nyirrpi and Alekarenge have contributed to the Warlpiri Dictionary,...
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    Talking Strong
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    Talking Strong

    By the late 1960s, Indigenous education in Australia was in crisis. When Whitlam swept to power in 1972, his Labor government reached out to Indigenous people to guide change at a national level. The National Aboriginal Education Committee was the result...
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    Clever Man
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    Clever Man

    Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara offers a unique perspective on the life and making of this Aboriginal Western Arnhem clever man or marrkidjbu.Born at the end of the 19th Century when the Western world had scarcely touched Arnhem Land,...
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    A Dictionary of Umpithamu, with notes on Middle Paman
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    A Dictionary of Umpithamu, with notes on Middle Paman

    Umpithamu is a language of the Princess Charlotte Bay region on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula, in northeastern Australia. A Dictionary of Umpithamu, with notes on Middle Paman is the first comprehensive dictionary of a Cape York language to be...
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    Ngiyampaa Wordworld
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    Ngiyampaa Wordworld

    The Wangaaypuwan dialect of Ngiyampaa is the language of the Pilaarrkiyalu, Nhiilyikiyalu and Karulkiyalu people that come from the dry, riverless country of Western NSW. Some people still live in and around the ngurrampaa 'homelands' but many now live...
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    Yijarni
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    Yijarni

    On 23 August 1966, approximately 200 Gurindji stockmen and their families walked off Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, protesting against poor working conditions and the taking of their land by pastoralists. Led by Vincent...
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    Gija Dictionary
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    Gija Dictionary

    Gija is a traditional language of the East Kimberley in the north-west of Australia. It is a landscape of weathered hills hugged by spinifex, startling rocky outcrops, hidden waterholes and dry riverbeds that turn to raging torrents in the wet season...
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    Ngirramanujuwal
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    Ngirramanujuwal

    Ngirramanujuwal is one who adds colour.Walmajarri man Jimmy Pike (c. 19402002) manifests colour as strokes of ink on paper: the saturated hues of the desert sky at dusk, and the glimmers of the sun on the water's surface. His vivid and exceptional...
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    Milbi
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    Milbi

    Age 8+A long time ago, in the land of Guugu Yumithirr people, mythic creatures hunted, danced, played and gathered food. The Magpie brothers chased the giant Dingo, the greedy White Cockatoo stole food from two Night Owl sisters, Stormcloud threw...
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    Nomad Girl
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    Nomad Girl

    '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...
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    Melbourne Dreaming
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    Melbourne Dreaming

    Within its busy urban presence, Melbourne has a rich and complex Aboriginal heritage. Amongst the city landscape lie layers of a turbulent history and an ongoing vibrant culture. But you need to know where to look. Melbourne...
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  • A3 flat AIATSIS map Indigenous Australia
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    A3 flat AIATSIS map Indigenous Australia

    The highly popular AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia is now available in a compact, portable A3 size. Available flat or folded (packaged in a cellophane bag), it is the perfect take-home product for tourists and anyone interested in the diversity of...
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  • A3 fold AIATSIS map Indigenous Australia
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    A3 fold AIATSIS map Indigenous Australia

    The highly popular AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia is now available in a compact, portable A3 size. Available flat or folded (packaged in a cellophane bag), it is the perfect take-home product for tourists and anyone interested in the diversity of...
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    Kangkushot
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    Kangkushot

    An updated edition of an epic and remarkable story. In this powerful memoir, Peter Coppin's story emerges; told in fragments, moments of time and memories.A senior Nyamal lawman, Coppin was born in Yarrie country in Western...
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    Arresting Incarceration
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    Arresting Incarceration

    Despite sweeping reforms by the Keating government following the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment has soared. What has gone wrong? In Arresting incarceration, Dr Don...
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    Aborigines and the 'Sport of Kings'
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    Aborigines and the 'Sport of Kings'

    Aboriginal jockeys have played a small but vital part in the Australian racing industry. As stockmen, their talent in the saddle and their intimate knowledge of their country, made them invaluable. Over time, some graduated from the stock route to the...
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    Coranderrk
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    Coranderrk

    The battle for Coranderrk was one of the first sustained campaignsfor justice, land rights and self-determination. Proud of their culture, theircommunity and their award-winning farm, the Kulin people (led by William Barak)lobbied against the Aboriginal...
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    Our Stories are Our Survival
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    Our Stories are Our Survival

    Our stories are our survival centres on the continuity of Wiradjuri culture. It is a celebration of storytelling and the joys of life within an Aboriginal Australian community. Our stories offers an alternative to the commonly told stories of Aboriginal...
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    Rethinking Social Justice
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    Rethinking Social Justice

    In the early 1970s, Australian governments began to treat Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander as 'peoples' with capacities for self-government. Forty years later, confidence in Indigenous self-determination has been eroded by accounts of Indigenous...
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    Our Greatest Challenge
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    Our Greatest Challenge

    Hannah McGlade's new book bravely addresses the complex and fraught issue of Aboriginal child abuse. She argues that Aboriginal child sexual assault has been formed within the entrenched societal forces of racism, colonisation and patriarchy, yet cast in...
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    Kurlumarniny
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    Kurlumarniny

    We come from the desert is the story of Minyjun (Monty Hale), a senior Ngulipartu man from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Written in his own language and in English, Minyjun shares with us his extraordinary life, from his family's migration...
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    Country of the Heart
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    Country of the Heart

    Country of the Heart provides an introduction to the connections between Aboriginal people and the land that has sustained and nurtured them for generations. Through the wonderful photographic images and the stories of the MakMak clan women...
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    I'm the One that Know this Country!
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    I'm the One that Know this Country!

    Matutjara woman, Jessie Lennon, was born on a sheep station near Kingoonya in the 1920s. Aged six, she accompanied her father on a ceremonial journey with the Old People, as far west as Ooldea, in the time of Daisy Bates, and north to Coober Pedy, then a...
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    Aboriginal Sydney
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    Aboriginal Sydney

    Despite its bustling urban presence, Sydney has a rich and complex Aboriginal heritage. Hidden within its burgeoning city landscape, lie layers of a vibrant culture and a turbulent history. But, you need to know where to look. Aboriginal...
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    Throwing off the Cloak
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    Throwing off the Cloak

    This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Indigenous responses to colonisation. It deals with Torres Strait Islanders' 160-year continuing struggle against outsider intervention. The author focuses on the Torres Strait Islander peoples'...
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    Yuendumu Everyday

    This is a highly readable examination of the nature of daily life in a remote Aboriginal community in central Australia. Evocative narratives revolve around five Warlpiri women who present insights into the cultural underpinnings of Indigenous daily life...
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