Search Results for Aboriginal Australians - -- - Social conditions

The little red yellow black book : an introduction to indigenous Australia.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-, author.
Call Number 305.89915 PAS
Publication Date 2018
Summary 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 perspective, this highly illustrated and accessible introduction covers a range of topics from history, culture and the Arts, through to activism and reconciliation. In this fourth edition, readers will learn about some of the significant contributions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have made, and continue to make, to the Australian nation. Common stereotypes will be challenged, and the many struggles and triumphs that we've experienced as we've navigated through our shared histories will be revealed. Readers will also learn about some of the key concepts that underpin Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander worldviews including concepts such as the Dreaming, the significance of Ancestral Heroes and Country. The Little Red Yellow Black Book is for readers of all backgrounds and provides an opportunity to discover more about the diverse, dynamic and continuing cultures of Australia's First Peoples.
Format: Regular print

Reconciliation : a journey / Michael Gordon.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Gordon, Michael, 1955-
Call Number 306.0899915 GOR
Publication Date 2001 2000
Format: Books

Aboriginal reconciliation / editor, Justin Healey.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Healey, Justin.
Call Number 305.89915 ABO
Publication Date 2006
Format: Books

Dingo makes us human : life and land in an Australian Aboriginal culture / Deborah Bird Rose.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Rose, Deborah Bird.
Call Number 306.0899915 ROS
Publication Date 2000
Format: Books

Talking to my country / Stan Grant.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Grant, Stan, 1963-, author.
Call Number 305.89915 GRA
Publication Date 2017
Summary 'Talking to my country' is Stan Grant's very personal meditation on race, identity and history. It is that rare and special book that talks to every Australian about their country - what it is, and what it could be. It is not just about race, or about indigenous people but all of us, our shared identity. Direct, honest and forthright, Stan is talking to us all. He might not have all the answers but he wants us to keep on asking the question: how can we be better?
Format: Books

The stolen generations / editor Justin Healey.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Healey, Justin.
Call Number 305.89915 STO
Publication Date 2001
Format: Books

The stolen generation / editor Kaye Healey.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Healey, Kaye.
Call Number 305.89915 STO
Publication Date 1998
Format: Books

Farmers or hunter-gatherers? : the Dark emu debate / Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Sutton, Peter, 1946-, author.
Call Number 305.89915 SUT
Publication Date 2021
Summary An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production. Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu in 2014. It argued that classical Aboriginal society was more sophisticated than Australians had been led to believe because it resembled more closely the farming communities of Europe. In Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe ask why Australians have been so receptive to the notion that farming represents an advance from hunting and gathering. Drawing on the knowledge of Aboriginal elders, previously not included within this discussion, and decades of anthropological scholarship, Sutton and Walshe provide extensive evidence to support their argument that classical Aboriginal society was a hunter-gatherer society and as sophisticated as the traditional European farming methods. Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? asks Australians to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal society and culture.
Format: Regular print

The colonial fantasy : why white Australia can't solve black problems / Sarah Maddison.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Maddison, Sarah, author.
Call Number 305.89915 MAD
Publication Date 2019
Summary Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The evidence is incontrovertible. Whatever the policy from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition government policies and programs have made little positive difference to the quality of life of the majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. In far too many instances, interaction with governments has only made Indigenous lives worse. The successes of a burgeoning Indigenous middle class cannot obscure this fact. Despite this, many activists, and analysts Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike still believe that working with the state is the only viable political option. This belief has produced a situation of constant churn and reinvention in Indigenous affairs, as governments of all persuasions battle over the 'right' approach to solving Indigenous 'problems', secure in their belief that new or better policy is the answer. The Colonial Fantasy considers why Australia persists in the face of such obvious failure. It argues that white Australia can't solve black problems because white Australia is the problem. Indigenous policy in Australia has resisted the one thing that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people want, and the one thing that has made a difference elsewhere: the ability to control and manage their own lives. This book argues for a radical restructuring of the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and governments, seeing the resurgence of Indigenous nationhood as the only way forward.
Format: Regular print

My tidda, my sister : stories of strength and resilience from Australia's First Women / Marlee Silva ; artwork by Rachael Sarra.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Silva, Marlee, author.
Call Number 323.119915 SIL
Publication Date 2020
Summary My Tidda, My Sister shares the experiences of many Indigenous women and girls, brought together by author and host of the Tiddas 4 Tiddas podcast, Marlee Silva. The voices of First Nations? women that Marlee weaves through the book provide a rebuttal to the idea that 'you can?t be what you can?t see'. For non-Indigenous women, it demonstrates the diversity of what success can look like and offers an insight into the lives of their Indigenous sisters and peers. Featuring colourful artwork by artist Rachael Sarra, this book is a celebration of the Indigenous female experience through truth-telling. Some stories are heart-warming, while others shine a light on the terrible realities for many Australian Indigenous women, both in the past and in the present. But what they all share is the ability to inspire and empower, creating a sisterhood for all Australian women.
Format: Regular print

Caging the rainbow : places, politics, and aborigines in a North Australian town / Francesca Merlan.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Merlan, Francesca.
Call Number 994.290049915 21
Publication Date 1998
Format: Electronic Resources
Click here to view

Triumph of the nomads : a history of ancient Australia / Geoffrey Blainey.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Blainey, Geoffrey.
Call Number 994.01 BLA
Publication Date 1975
Format: Books

Top end girl / Miranda Tapsell.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Tapsell, Miranda, author.
Call Number 927.91 TAP
Publication Date 2020
Summary Ever since I was thirteen years old, all I wanted to do was perform. It was an unusual dream for a kid from the Northern Territory to have ... what I wanted for my life was a world away from what people knew and loved about the Top End . Even though I've moved south to become an actor, the Territory has never left me. It's the place I go to when I want to feel whole again. From Kakadu to Cannes, Miranda Tapsell is one of Australia's favourite actors. A proud Larrikia woman, she built a stellar career on stage, and shot to fame in The Sapphires and then in Love Child and Doctor, Doctor. Growing up, Miranda often looked for faces like hers on our screens. There weren't many. And too often there was a negative narrative around Indigenous lives, and Aboriginal women especially. Now an award-winning actor, she decided to change things herself. Combining her love of romantic comedies with her love of Darwin, the Tiwi Islands and the Top End, Miranda wrote, produced and stared in the box office hit Top End Wedding. But who the hell co-writes, produces and acts in a film about a wedding in the same year they're having their own? Miranda Tapsell does! In this engaging and thought-provoking memoir, TOP END GIRL, Miranda shares the path she took to create a moving film about reconnection to family and culture at the same time as she was planning her own wedding. And, like all good story-tellers, she holds a mirror up to the society we live in to show the prejudice that too often surfaces. Miranda knows that the key to change is to understand and through the power of storytelling she is changing attitudes and expectations to unite us all.
Format: Regular print

We come with this place / Debra Dank.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Dank, Debra, author.
Call Number 305.89915 DAN
Publication Date 2022
Summary "We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in time and place to tell an unforgettable story of country and people. There is great pain in these pages, and anger at injustice, but also great love, in marriage and in family, and for the land. Dank faces head on the ingrained racism, born of brutal practice and harsh legislation, that lies always under the skin of Australia, the racism that calls a little Aboriginal girl names and beats and rapes and disenfranchises the generations before hers. She describes sudden terrible violence, between races and sometimes at home. But overwhelmingly this is a book about strong, beloved parents and grandparents, guiding and teaching their children and grandchildren what country means, about joyful gatherings and the pleasures of eating food provided by the place that nourishes them, both spiritually and physically. Dank calibrates human emotions with honesty and insight, and there is plenty of dry, down-to-earth humour. You can feel and smell and see the puffs of dust under moving feet, the ever-present burning heat, the bright exuberance of a night-time campfire, the emerald flash of a flock of budgerigars, the journeying wind, the harshness of a station shanty, the welcome scent of fresh water. We Come with This Place is deeply personal, a profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs, but it is much more than that. Here is Australia as it has been for countless generations, land and people in effortless balance, and Australia as it became, but also Australia as it could and should be." -- Back cover.
Format: Books

Growing up Aboriginal in Australia / edited by Anita Heiss.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Heiss, Anita, 1968-, editor.
Call Number 305.89915 GRO
Publication Date 2018
Summary What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts to showcase as many diverse voices, experiences and stories as possible in order to answer that question. Each account reveals, to some degree, the impacts of invasion and colonisation ? on language, on country, on ways of life, and on how people are treated daily in the community, the education system, the workplace and friendship groups.Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside newly discovered voices of all ages, with experiences spanning coastal and desert regions, cities and remote communities. All of them speak to the heart ? sometimes calling for empathy, oftentimes challenging stereotypes, always demanding respect.This groundbreaking anthology aims to enlighten, inspire and educate about the lives of Aboriginal people in Australia today.Contributors include: Tony Birch, Deborah Cheetham, Adam Goodes, Terri Janke, Patrick Johnson, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Jack Latimore, Celeste Liddle, Amy McQuire, Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Miranda Tapsell, Jared Thomas, Aileen Walsh, Alexis West, Tara June Winch, and many, many more.
Format: Books

Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia: Second Edition: 2nd Edition / general editors Bill Arthur & Frances Morphy (author).

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Arthur, W. S. (William Stewart), editor.
Call Number 305.89915 MAC
Publication Date 2019
Summary The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia is a unique tool for exploring and understanding the lives and cultures of Australia's First Peoples. An atlas can represent - in graphic form - a pattern of human activities in space and time. 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. Each chapter has been extensively revised and updated by one or more experts in the field, under the general editorship of Bill Arthur and Frances Morphy of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University. The maps, which form the core of the book, are supplemented by explanatory text and numerous diagrams, photographs and illustrations, including Indigenous artworks. This book is a collaborative publication between the Australian National University (ANU), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Macquarie Dictionary.
Format: Books

The Australian people : an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins / edited by James Jupp.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Jupp, James, 1932-
Call Number 994 AUS
Publication Date 2001
Summary This work documents the dramatic history of Australian settlement and describes the rich ethnic and cultural inheritance of the nation through the contributions of its people.
Format: Books

Australia day / Stan Grant.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Grant, Stan, 1963-, author.
Call Number 305.89915 GRA
Publication Date 2019
Summary As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away. There are the hard questions we ask of ourselves on Australia Day. Since publishing his critically acclaimed, Walkley Award-winning, bestselling memoir Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows this is not where the story ends. In this book, Australia Day, his long-awaited follow up to Talking to My Country, Stan talks about reconciliation and the indigenous struggle for belonging and identity in Australia, and about what it means to be Australian. A sad, wise, beautiful, reflective and troubled book, Australia Day asks the questions that have to be asked, that no else seems to be asking. Who are we? What is our country? How do we move forward from here?
Format: Books

Treading lightly : the hidden wisdom of the world's oldest people / Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe.

2024-05-05T17:48:45Z

by Sveiby, Karl Erik.
Call Number 305.89915 SVE
Publication Date 2006
Summary "Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe show how traditional Aboriginal stories and paintings were used to convey knowledge from one generation to the next, about the environment, law and relationships. They reveal the hidden art of four-level storytelling, and discuss how the stories, and the way they were used, formed the basis for a sustainable society. They also explain ecological farming methods, and how the Aboriginal style of leadership created resilient societies."--BOOK JACKET.
Format: Books