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    Life B'long Ali Drummond

    Ali Drummond has had an extraordinary life, by any standards. Orphaned when young, Ali took to a life at sea aged just fourteen. Originally taken on as an apprentice, Ali applied himself to learning the skills he needed to survive and prosper in a...
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    The 1967 Referendum

    On 27 May 1967 an overwhelming majority of electors voted in a national referendum to amend clauses of the Australian Constitution concerning Aboriginal people. 27 May 2007 is the 40th anniversary of this landmark event. The referendum is commonly...
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    A Cautious Silence

    This is the first exploration of modern Australian social anthropology to examine the forces that helped shaped its formation. Geoffrey Gray reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology as an academic discipline in Australia. He argues...
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    White Christ Black Cross

    Noel Loos frames the churches' missionary outreach to Aboriginal people within the reality of frontier violence, government control, segregation and neglect.Aboriginal people on the missions responded to white Christianity as part of their enforced...
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    Disciplining the Savages Savaging the Disciplines

    An exploration of the way knowledge is produced within academic disciplines and then reproduced as public knowledge and used by governments. Nakata, a Torres Strait Islander academic, casts a critical gaze on the 1890s Cambridge Expedition researchers to...
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  • Wunambi the Water Snake
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    Wunambi the Water Snake

    Ages 4 to 8 years. Yelling and shouting, the children chased each other in and out of the water...They didn't realise that they were sharing the water with a tired old Wunambi. Find out what happens when his rest is disturbed. Wunambi the water snake...
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    Aboriginal Suicide is Different

    A portrait of life, and of self destruction, by young Australian Aboriginal men and women. The author suggests we look to our Australian Aboriginal history for an understanding of this relatively recent phenomenon. That so many young Australian...
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    Landscapes of Indigenous Performance

    Individual contributors, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, demonstrate how local music and dance genres have been subjected to missionary, institutional, popular and global influences. They provide a cultural background and history of Torres Strait...
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    A Record in Stone
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    A Record in Stone

    A Record in Stone is a comprehensive investigation into the different ways in which archaeologists use flaked stone artefacts as a basis for reconstructing the distant human past. The authors not only describe the range of flaked stone artefact forms...
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    Cleared Out
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    Cleared Out

    In 1964, a group of 20 Aboriginal women and children in the Western Desert made their first contact with European Australians - patrol officers from theWoomera Rocket Range, clearing an area into which rockets were to be fired. They had been pursued by...
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    Dhuuluu-Yala - To Talk Straight

    Dhuuluu-Yala is a Wiradjuri phrase meaning 'to talk straight' and this book is straight talk about publishing Indigenous literature in Australia. It also includes broader issues that writers need to consider: engaging with readers and reviewers.The book...
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    Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia
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    Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia

    How many Aboriginal languages are there? Where are they spoken? How are they learned by children? Are there dictionaries of Aboriginal languages? What is the connection between the land, people and language in Aboriginal Australia? This book answers...
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    Monumental Disruptions
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    Monumental Disruptions

    What is the place of Australia's colonial memorials in today's society? Do we remove, destroy or amend? Monumental Disruptions investigates how these memorials have been viewed, and are viewed, by First Nations people to find a way forward.In June 2020,...
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  • The Little Red Yellow Black Book
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    The Little Red Yellow Black Book

    Originally published in 1994, The Little Red Yellow Black Book has established itself as the perfect starting point for those who want to learn about the rich cultures and histories of Australia's First Peoples. Written from an Indigenous...
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    The White Cockatoo Flowers
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    The White Cockatoo Flowers

    'He looked down at his watch and saw that the long hand was overlapping the short, pointing towards twelve. The old year had passed and the new year had begun. He was swept by a feeling of loss and attachment to a past that was no longer there: If I were...
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    Telltale
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    Telltale

    'I was confined, locked into my library, tracing my heartbeats from way, way back.'In Telltale, Carmel Bird seizes on an enforced isolation to re-read a rich dispensary of books from her past. A rule she sets herself is that she can consult only...
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    The Goddess and the City
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    The Goddess and the City

    The Goddess and the City: Kali and Kolkata brings in to focus one of the world's most vibrant living Victorian cities. It was the capital of British India from 1722 until the Raj relocated to Delhi in 1911. The architectural wealth bedazzles but no more...
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    The Kowloon Kid
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    The Kowloon Kid

    From the authorof Travels with My Angst andAny Guru Will Do, a vivid, nostalgic, and funny memoir of growing upin Hong Kong in the 1960s.Phil Brown's lifebegins in small town Australia - Maitland, NSW to be precise - but in 1963...
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    Things Nobody Knows But Me
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    Things Nobody Knows But Me

    When she is four yearsold Amra Pajali realises that her mother is different. Fatima is loving butsometimes hears strange voices that tell her to do bizarre things. She isfrequently sent to hospital and Amra and her brother are passed around tofamily...
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    Talk of Treasure
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    Talk of Treasure

    Jane Carswell began her working life at Pegasus Press shortly after its audacious publication of Janet Frame's novel Owls Do Cry, and years later she went on to write an award-winning memoir called Under the Huang Jiao Tree:...
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    The Handbook
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    The Handbook

    Climate change has arrived, and it's not going away. In the absence of effective world action, global warming is certain to continue. The Handbook is not another book about climate change science or politics. Rather it is an...
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    Tarab
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    Tarab

    From theSudan to Northern New South Wales, Tarab is an epic, mesmerising taleof high adventure and the search for meaning. Carl Cleves escapes nationalservice in Belgium to live in South Africa at the height of the apartheid era.So begin the adventures...
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    Crazy Little Heaven
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    Crazy Little Heaven

    When Mark Heyward first went to Indonesia, to teach at asmall school in East Kalimantan, little did he realise how life changing hisdecision would prove to be. Within three years his Australian life would bebehind him and he would be travelling, with...
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    The Mysterious Mr Jacob
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    The Mysterious Mr Jacob

    'Oneof the most exciting  narrative historiesto come out of India.' William DalrympleIt was a scandal thatrocked the highest echelons of the British Raj. In 1891, a notorious jewellerand curio dealer from Simla offered to sell the world's...
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    Road Series
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    Road Series

    In the spirit of Patti Smith's M Train, Road Series is both love story and elegy. Renowned musician Hugo Race's evocations of Melbourne, Sydney, the USA, Europe and Mali, and the life of a rock musician on the road are revealing, incisive and exquisitely...
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    Poum and Alexandre
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    Poum and Alexandre

    This is the story of two flawed eccentrics. Everything they do subverts their firm intention of keeping up appearances. They meet just after the war in liberated Paris but they cannot quite free themselves from the many strings attached to them the old...
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    The Media and the Massacre
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    The Media and the Massacre

    'Insightful, sensitively written and compelling.' Libby Lester, Head of Journalism, Media and Communications, University of Tasmania'An unflinching dissection of the relationships between journalists and their subjects a compelling expos of journalistic...
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    Small Indiscretions
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    Small Indiscretions

    A traveller becomes a Monroe impersonator in the casinos of Macau. An obsessive son of Australians living in Jakarta confronts his strange rituals. A young woman is trapped in the boredom of her father's ministry in exotic Borneo. A daughter defies her...
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    A Long Walk in the Himalaya

    Weare's finely rendered story of his five-month trek from the sacred source of the Ganges through the Kullu Valley, Zanskar and Ladakh to his houseboat in Kashmir is remarkably entertaining. The people he meets and travels with are fully-fledged...
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    Tokyo Midnight
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    Tokyo Midnight

    Tokyo Midnight explores the Asian megalopolis, and the ways Tokyo comes to life between dusk and dawn in a futuristic neonscape, a time when the natural light disappears, and the artificial light takes over.The images were photographed in early 2019 and...
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    The Terrible Event
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    The Terrible Event

    From the winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. David Cohen's most wryly humorous and disturbing work of fiction yet.A public memorial's name is changed to avoid any mention of the tragedy it has been set up to commemorate. Two...
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    if this is the end
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    if this is the end

    A fearless and honest exploration of queer First Nations identity, and a vibrant celebration of imperfection and personal growth, if this is the end is a stunning exploration of what it means to work through childhood trauma and love yourself in the...
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    Refugia
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    Refugia

    'in ember and ash / the heart of the Noongar Nation beats buried...'Refugia is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar Elfie Shiosaki. Inspired by the beeliar (Swan River) and the NASA James Webb Space...
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    Close to the Subject
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    Close to the Subject

    **Shortlisted, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2024, Non-fiction**This book is a collected works of one of Australia's most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces...
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    Lemons in the Chicken Wire
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    Lemons in the Chicken Wire

    Winner 2015 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship a partnership between the State Library ofQueensland's black&write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Project and Magabala BooksFrom a remarkable new voice in Indigenous writing comes...
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    Guwayu, for all times
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    Guwayu, for all times

    I travel Country, like my Old People done. I see the Country, like my Old People done I burn Country, like my Old People done. I sing Country, like my Old People done -Jacob Morris,Ban Maganindadjyang (My Old People Done)Guwayu, For All Timesis a...
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    maar bidi: next generation black writing
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    maar bidi: next generation black writing

    In this beautifully crafted, evocative and poignant anthology of prose and fiction, a diverse group of young black writers are encouraged to find strength in their voices and what is important to them. maar bidi is a journey into what it is to be young,...
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    Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja
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    Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja

    This stunning book is a biography and a generous sharing of Yorna's Culture and traditional beliefs. Explore the meaning of Country, Lalai ('Creation'), Wandjina, Woongudd (the 'Snake'), in the author's Country in the Kimberley region of Western...
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    The Boy from Birdum
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    The Boy from Birdum

    Bill Dempsey is a humble achiever. He is known primarily as a champion footballer with West Perth and the Darwin Buffaloes. A premiership captain who played over 400 games in 20 seasons in Perth and the Northern Territory, and a member of the...
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    Blakwork
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    Blakwork

    WINNER - 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection WINNER - 2019 Mascara Avant-Garde Literary Award SHORTLISTED 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Poetry) SHORTLISTED 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary...
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    Ninu Grandmothers' Law
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    Ninu Grandmothers' Law

    ' This is my knowledge. It has been handed down to me from my grandmothers and grandfathers, my mothers and my fathers. I am sharing it with you because I want people to know about my life.'Ninu Grandmothers' Law is a definitive account of a traditional...
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    Yorro Yorro
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    Yorro Yorro

    Aboriginal Elder David Mowaljarlai and photographer Jutta Malnic rekindle a story that constitutes the oldest collective memory of humankind. Yorro Yorro tells of Wandjina creation spirits and their 'crossing over' into ancestral beings...
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