Summary
LONGLISTED FOR THE ABIA ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020"The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia has a place on the work table of every Australian student, on the coffee table of every Australian home and on the desk of every Australian political representative." SENATOR PATRICK DODSONThe Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia is a unique tool for exploring and understanding the lives and cultures of Australia's First Peoples.This second edition of the award-winning Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia opens a window onto the landscape of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives, from over 60,000 years ago to the present time.An atlas visually represents patterns of human activities in space and time. The maps, which form the core of the book, are supplemented by explanatory text and numerous diagrams, photographs and illustrations, including Indigenous artworks.Each chapter has been extensively revised and updated by one or more experts in their field, under the general editorship of Bill Arthur and Frances Morphy of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University.This book is a collaborative publication between the Australian National University (ANU), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Macquarie Dictionary.
Bill Arthur and Frances Morphy have been researching Indigenous affairs and working closely with Indigenous communities for several decades. In 2001 they began working on the first edition of the atlas, which took out the award of Overall Winner in the 2006 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing (EEPA). In 2017, they began working on a second edition of the Atlas which was published in 2019. Across both editions, there have been over 40 contributors who have researched, written and mapped the content in the Atlas under the general editorship of Bill and Frances.Chapter authors for the second edition include: Bill Arthur, Maggie Brady, Heather Crawford, Tony Dreise, Dennis Foley, Donna Green, Boyd Hunter, Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, Diana James, Barry Judd, Harold Koch, Kim Mahood, Francis Markham, Virginia Marshall, Frances Morphy, Howard Morphy, Huw Peacock, Kellie Pollard, Peter Radoll, Tim Rowse, Lyndall Ryan, Chris Sainsbury, Will Sanders, Leonne Satterthwait, Jane Simpson, RG (Jerry) Schwab, Claire Smith, Mike Smith, Dale Sutherland, Maggie Walter, Daryl Wesley, and Eunice Yu.
