Readings Recommends: Aborginal Australia
First Australians (Unillustrated Edition)
$29.99 (Trade paperback / Miegunyah Press )
This book is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia’s first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldes... More »
Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 (4th Edition)
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
A powerful history of black-white encounters in Australia since colonisation, this fully updated edition remains the only concise survey of Aboriginal history since 1788.
'In this book Richard Broome has managed an envia... More »
Fantastic Dreaming: The Archeology Of An Aboriginal Mission
$49.95 (Paperback book / Altamira Press )
From their earliest encounters, European settlers have evaluated Australian Aboriginal people on the basis of their material culture. This book shows how colonial practices of controlling and transforming Indigenous peop... More »
The Dreaming And Other Essays
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
This is a collection of work by W.E.H. Stanner, one of Australia's finest essayists. A superb anthropologist, he was both perceptive and prophetic about the Aboriginal people he knew; yet his work has been out of print a... More »
Up From The Mission: Selected Writings
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
Up from the Mission charts the life and thoughts of Noel Pearson, from his early days as a native title lawyer to his position today as one of Australia’s most influential figures.
This is writing of great passion and ... More »
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The Politics of Suffering
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press )
Winner of the 2009 Manning Clarke House Cultural Award.
Have Australian Aboriginal communities become places of increased suffering because of the progressive policies of the 1970s–2000s? In this provocative book, Austra... More »
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country
'The country's finest work of literature so far this century. A haunting moral maze, described with such intimate observation and exquisite restraint that I kept... More »
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