History & Culture

'Let this series begin the discussion.' - Bruce Pascoe'An act of intellectual reconciliation.' - Lynette RussellSonglines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000...

Reflections on the Songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter Curated and introduced by two-time Miles Franklin winner, Noongar man Kim Scott, this special volume brings together 23 First Nations...

The truth about the bloody battles fought to establish a nation For the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into...

The untold story of the Central Australian Football Club Redtails in the Sunset follows the story of an Aussie rules football team from Central Australia fighting to enter the game's final...

A unique exploration into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and relating, with an in-depth focus on kinship systems and how their cyclical nature foiled attempts by missionaries to destroy them.Part...

In Deep History: Country and Sovereignty, edited by Jackie Huggins and Ann McGrath, leading historians and thinkers explore the First Nations histories of caring for places and people over millennia....

A graceful meditation on how ceremony and ritual can nourish our lives - and a powerful testament to the wisdom of First Nations practices, offering deeper ways to understand the...

Putting culture back in Agriculture.A young, entrepreneurial Worimi man leaps into the discussion of agriculture on this land on which we live, its past, but more importantly, its future.Yarning across...

Representing the collaborative efforts of Ngardi Elders and linguists over more than 40 years, this is the most comprehensive documentation ever of Ngardi, a language of the northern Western Desert...

Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales, today and always Aboriginal land rights recognition in 1983 came after nearly 200 years of violent colonial dispossession and the near complete loss...

Indigenous artists from across the planet provide truth-telling about the past and inspiration to imagine better futures. marramarra (a Wiradjuri word meaning to create, make or do) explores how contemporary...

How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what...

The Campaign for Justice and Recognition Continues In Always Was, Always Will Be, bestselling author Thomas Mayo investigates 'what's next?' for reconciliation and justice in Australia after the failed October 2023...

A powerful indictment of the criminal behaviour of police officers, and a call for institutional reform, edited by the multi-award-winning author of Black and Blue. When Cops Are Criminals examines...

THE REMARKABLE STORY OF AUSTRALIA'S FIRST NATIONS LANGUAGES, FROM PRECOLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT Australia's language diversity is truly breathtaking. This continent lays claim to the world's longest continuous collection...

A searing indictment of the media's failures in reporting Indigenous affairs - and a powerful corrective that shows how Black journalism can pave the way for equality and justice. From...

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...

Told in two voices - Kim's and Hazel's - Kayang & Me is the history of the south coast Noongar people of Western Australia.Award-winning novelist Kim Scott and his elder, Hazel Brown,...

The origins of Australian Aboriginal activism Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in...