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Between 1942 and 1945, Torres Strait Islander women experienced the fears and uncertainties of living virtually on Australia's front line during the Pacific War. Some were forcibly evacuated with their children to the mainland, where they found themselves still restricted as to where and how they could live. Others were left on their tiny islands, deserted in the end by government and church, despite the constant threat of Japanese advance thr...

William Cooper was the founder and leader of the Australian Aborigines League, formally constituted in 1936. This was the most important of the first crop of Aboriginal political organizations formed in Australia. Mission-educated and influenced by Christianity, he worked as a laborer in several states in the early 20th Century. His later authority as a spokesman rested on these life experiences. One of Coopers important causes was petitioning...

Reading Doctors' Writing is an important book for those interested in health research on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The way researchers write about Indigenous peoples in medical journals is important, as these representations influence the way we think about Indigenous peoples and their health and illnesses. Repeatedly labeled as an inferior race, many Indigenous peoples' lives have been diminished. Access to good health ca...

ASPs best-selling publication. Attractive educational tool which aims to represent all the language groups of Australias Indigenous people. The Aboriginal Australia wall map represents work carried out for the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. Using the published resources available between 1988 and 1994, the map attempts to represent language, tribal or nation groups of Australia's Indigenous peoples.

Uncommon Ground brings together a unique collection of essays about the complex roles played by white women in Australian Indigenous history. It showcases some of the latest and most interesting work in Australia on gender and cross-cultural history. Each chapter highlights the work of a woman involved in Aboriginal issues, and with Aboriginal people, in a particular historical context. They include prominent public figures, activists, writers...

In 1964, a group of 20 Aboriginal women and children in the Western Desert made their first contact with European Australianspatrol officers from the Woomera Rocket Range, clearing an area into which rockets were to be fired. They had been pursued by the patrol officers for several weeks, running from this frightening new force in the desert. Yuwali Nixon, 17 at the time, remembers every detail of the dramafirst seeing these 'devils' and their...

The remarkable life history of outstanding Aboriginal leader Patrick Dodson has never before been told. In Paddy's Road, Kevin Keeffe brings us stories of Dodson's life woven from interviews, government archives and family stories. This source material and Keeffe's social and political analysis uniquely describes the life and the political, cultural and spiritual beliefs of Australia's first Aboriginal Catholic priest, land rights activist, Ro...

This lively collection of essays from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission's treaty think tank and authors commissioned by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies was written to stimulate discussion and debate about a treaty. The publication reflects the complexity of the issues needing to be resolved on the road to a treaty and emanates from a reconciliation convention attended by Aboriginal l...

Paint Me Black tells the remarkable and inspiring life of Claire Henty-Gebert, through times and circumstances beyond the personal experience of most Australians. Claire was born in 1930 near Frew River station, the country of the Kaytetye and Alyawarra Aboriginal people. She was the child of white settler Harry Henty, notoriously callous in his dealings with Aboriginal people, and Ruby, an Alyawarra woman. She was three or four years old, whe...

When that good old horse took me away from Borroloola on the long journey to Darwin, it changed my life forever ... I stopped being an Aboriginal girl and became a half-caste girl. From someone who had had so much, I was now some -had nothing, with no past and an unknown future. Hilda Muir was born on the very frontier of modern Australia near the outback town of Borroloola in the about 1920. Her early life was spent roaming the Gulf Country h...

The road to Australia was a very long one indeed for Russian ethnographer -- Vladimir Kabo whose lifetime passion has been the study of this comment's Aboriginal people. Continually denied permission to travel abroad for over 30 years, I dreamed of seeing Australia with my own eyes. At last, in 1990, came the opportunity -- and the vital passport. This eventful memoir records Vladimir Kabo's early years and education, his time at the front in ...

To most visitors and locals, Darwin is a vibrant, tropical city in the "top end" of Australia. Although not always obvious to visitors, Darwin is also a living Aboriginal cultural landscape. Aboriginal Darwin peels back layers to show the rich heritage and complex cultures of Aboriginal people, both before and since colonization. The book includes contemporary and historical sites that range from the harbor to the beaches, monsoon forests, gar...

This is a story of success in Aboriginal health service in the Northern Territory. The Board members of KWHB had always seen their situation within a historical context of oppression and a lack of say in their own futures. In 1997, they grasped a rare opportunity. With courage and vision, the Commonwealth and Northern Territory governments committed substantial sums of money to an experimental model of health servicing. The result is a story o...

Dhuuluu-Yala is a refreshing and long-awaited summary of the publishing of Indigenous literature researched and written from an Indigenous Australian perspective. It contains a thoughtful analysis of what makes and forms the identity of the Indigenous authors, publishing and editing issues, the appeal and significance of Indigenous literature, a comparative look at Canadian First Nations' and Aotearoa peoples. Author Anita Heiss was the first ...

Black Mary" is the story of Aboriginal bushranger Mary Ann and her partner, Captain Thunderbolt, roaming north-western New South Wales in the mid-nineteenth century. Dressed like the men, Mary Ann is one of the gang, managing to survive in the outback and to elude capture most of the time. She dreams of returning with Thunderbolt to live with her people but instead witnesses their massacre and plots revenge. The play premiered in Sydney in Apr...

In this collection of poetry, poet Geoff Page and artist Pooaraar combine their significant talents in an effort to end 'the great forgetting'. The poetry and illustrations illuminate the forgotten story of Australia in the last 200 years, the story of the interaction of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. This book encompasses the brutality, arrogance, honest misunderstandings, occasional decencies and continuing unresolved problems of this...

Nonie Sharp in her research and writing has made very valuable contributions to justice for the people of the Torres Strait by presenting to readers our values, laws such as Malo Ra Gelar (Malo's Law), our culture, our beliefs, as well as our frustrations and our hope for the future from our indigenous perspectives. Her close and sincere relationships with the Passi clan and many Torres Strait Islanders contributes to her sound understanding a...

Most people call me Auntie Rita, whites as well as Aboriginal people. Auntie is a term of respect of our older womanfolk. You don't have to be blood related or anything. Everyone is kin. That's a beautiful thing because in this way no one is every truly alone, they always have someone they can turn to. - Rita Huggins was stolen from her country as a child in the 1920s and taken to what is now Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve. The Cherbourg years w...

Begun as a catalogue of the collections of the National Museum of Australia, this work grew into an account of a little-known aspect of Australian social history, surveying material from collections in Australia. Each section of text is accompanied by apposite quotes from a variety of written records from sites in Australia.

A 'landmark in Australian anthropology' when it first appeared in 1880, this is the first major analysis of Aboriginal social structure, adopting a model today termed 'social Darwinist'. While this theory is now rejected, it exerted tremendous influence on European attitudes for decades.