https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=SVL(INDIGENOUS)&QRYTEXT=Books%20By%20Indigenous%20Authors&SETLVL=SET&CF=BIB&SORTS=DTE.DATE1.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=552764&CF=BIB An outstanding and timely collection of speculative fiction imagining futures where Indigenous sovereignty is fully reasserted. In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question- what might country, community and culture look like in the Tweed if Gooris reasserted their sovereignty? Each of the stories in Always Will Be is set in its own future version of the Tweed. In one, a group of girls plot their escape from a home they have no memory of entering. In another, two men make a final visit to the country they love as they contemplate a new life in a faraway place. Saunders imagines different scenarios for how the local Goori community might reassert sovereignty - reclaiming country, exerting full self-determination, or incorporating non-Indigenous people into the social fabric - while practising creative, ancestrally approved ways of living with changing climates. An outstanding and timely collection of speculative fiction imagining futures where Indigenous sovereignty is fully reasserted. In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question- what might country, community and culture look like in the Tweed if Gooris reasserted their sovereignty? Each of the stories in Always Will Be is set in its own future version of the Tweed. In one, a group of girls plot their escape from a home they have no memory of entering. In another, two men make a final visit to the country they love as they contemplate a new life in a faraway place. Saunders imagines different scenarios for how the local Goori community might reassert sovereignty - reclaiming country, exerting full self-determination, or incorporating non-Indigenous people into the social fabric - while practising creative, ancestrally approved ways of living with changing climates.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Saunders, Mykaela Amy Eleanor Eulaurel<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>St Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press, 2024.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2024<br />310 pages ; 24 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2 reserves</span><br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - SAUN - Onloan - Due: 13 Jun 2024 - 010990321<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - A823.00 - On order<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=530168&CF=BIB This is a raw, gritty, inspiring, eye-opening true story of one woman's life that represents the lives of so many other Aboriginal women like her. Life is tough for the Connell family, growing up in a small town where racist attitudes, discrimination and violence against Aboriginal people is commonplace. Lavinia is lucky- her parents ensure her family stays together while other cousins and friends are removed from the state. But violence and adversity occur over and over, even while young Lavinia also excels - at sport and at school - drawing on her own inner strength and a physical resourcefulness. In time, Lavinia will find herself a homeless young widow, stripped of hope when her own four children are taken away. But she has a way of righting herself, using education and determination to bring her small family back together, and finding love when she least expects it. Smashing Serendipity is the yarn Lavinia tells her children and her grandchildren, gathered by the fire on the banks of the river where she grew up - the story of one good woman - one moordtj yorga - that reflects the stories of so many strong, determined women of her time. This is a raw, gritty, inspiring, eye-opening true story of one woman's life that represents the lives of so many other Aboriginal women like her. Life is tough for the Connell family, growing up in a small town where racist attitudes, discrimination and violence against Aboriginal people is commonplace. Lavinia is lucky- her parents ensure her family stays together while other cousins and friends are removed from the state. But violence and adversity occur over and over, even while young Lavinia also excels - at sport and at school - drawing on her own inner strength and a physical resourcefulness. In time, Lavinia will find herself a homeless young widow, stripped of hope when her own four children are taken away. But she has a way of righting herself, using education and determination to bring her small family back together, and finding love when she least expects it. Smashing Serendipity is the yarn Lavinia tells her children and her grandchildren, gathered by the fire on the banks of the river where she grew up - the story of one good woman - one moordtj yorga - that reflects the stories of so many strong, determined women of her time.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Hansen, Louise K.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>North Fremantle, Western Australia : Fremantle Press, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />262 pages : illustration ; 24 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous - 994.05 HAN - Available - 010675877<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=533208&CF=BIB A beautiful book that brings many lifetimes of sung Tiwi knowledge to the page for the first time. A beautiful book that brings many lifetimes of sung Tiwi knowledge to the page for the first time.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Ngarukuruwala Women's Group<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Richmond, Victoria : Hardie Grant Explore, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />194 pages : colour illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous - 780.899 NGA - Available - 010673996<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=534911&CF=BIB Daniel Boyd (b. 1982) is one of Australia's most acclaimed young artists. His practice is internationally recognised for its manifold engagement with the colonial history of the Australia-Great Ocean (Pacific) region. Drawing upon intermingled discourses of science, religion and aesthetics, Boyd's work reveals the complexities through which political, cultural and personal memory is composed. With both Aboriginal and ni-Vanuatu heritage, Boyd's work traces this cultural and visual ancestry in relation to the broader history of Western art. Working with an idiosyncratic painting technique that partially obscures the composition, Boyd refigures archival imagery, art historical references and his family photographs, forcing us to contend with histories that have been hidden from view. His recent work draws on Gestalt theory, the allegory of Plato's cave, dark matter and the Neckercube. Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island unpacks the ways Boyd holds a lens to colonial history, explores multiplicity within narratives, and interrogates blackness as a form of First Nations' resistance. It provides a thoughtful and thought-provoking response to the current moment where critical dialogues on ideas of community, connectivity and cultural repatriation carry particular urgency. With new writing by the exhibition curators and commissioned First Nations authors, the book offers both critical insight into Daniel Boyd's practice as well as creative and experimental responses to his work. Boyd has exhibited widely in Australia and recognised internationally with his Up in smoke tour exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London in 2011 (following his artist-in-residence there); inclusion in the 56th Venice Biennale All The World's Futures exhibition in 2015; and solo exhibition Treasure Island at the Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea in 2021. Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island is published in conjunction with the artist's first major exhibition to be held in an Australian public institution. The book will feature over 100 works from across his nearly two-decade career and includes new work and commissioned spatial interventions. Daniel Boyd (b. 1982) is one of Australia's most acclaimed young artists. His practice is internationally recognised for its manifold engagement with the colonial history of the Australia-Great Ocean (Pacific) region. Drawing upon intermingled discourses of science, religion and aesthetics, Boyd's work reveals the complexities through which political, cultural and personal memory is composed. With both Aboriginal and ni-Vanuatu heritage, Boyd's work traces this cultural and visual ancestry in relation to the broader history of Western art. Working with an idiosyncratic painting technique that partially obscures the composition, Boyd refigures archival imagery, art historical references and his family photographs, forcing us to contend with histories that have been hidden from view. His recent work draws on Gestalt theory, the allegory of Plato's cave, dark matter and the Neckercube. Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island unpacks the ways Boyd holds a lens to colonial history, explores multiplicity within narratives, and interrogates blackness as a form of First Nations' resistance. It provides a thoughtful and thought-provoking response to the current moment where critical dialogues on ideas of community, connectivity and cultural repatriation carry particular urgency. With new writing by the exhibition curators and commissioned First Nations authors, the book offers both critical insight into Daniel Boyd's practice as well as creative and experimental responses to his work. Boyd has exhibited widely in Australia and recognised internationally with his Up in smoke tour exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London in 2011 (following his artist-in-residence there); inclusion in the 56th Venice Biennale All The World's Futures exhibition in 2015; and solo exhibition Treasure Island at the Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea in 2021. Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island is published in conjunction with the artist's first major exhibition to be held in an Australian public institution. The book will feature over 100 works from across his nearly two-decade career and includes new work and commissioned spatial interventions.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Gadigal Country, Sydney, NSW : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />235 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous - 759.994 DAN - Available - 010835455<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=511144&CF=BIB Have you ever wondered if anything exists beyond what you can see around you? Or have you ever felt restless or dissatisfied, or as if something is calling out to you from somewhere that's not quite here? So many of us are searching for more beyond the relentless daily grind and feeling lost, isolated or out of touch with our hearts and our minds. Though our busy world is full of distraction, what's often harder to find is a clear path through the noise and confusion.Cael O'Donnell is a former mental health therapist who now uses his abilities as a psychic medium to help hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to find guidance from the universe and tap into the resources already within them. From manifestation and dreams to spirit guides, the tools are all around us if we know how to identify and use them. Exploring the three interconnected aspects of our existence - Source, Spirit and Self - Cael explains how we can find our true purpose in life, develop trust in our intrinsic sense of direction, and deal with the loss of loved ones and other challenges life throws at us. Complete with three-minute exercises that can be done in short peaceful moments or turned into a larger ritual of growth and reflection, Three Minutes with Spirit is for anyone curious about deepening their connection to their inner self and the universe around them, and living a more meaningful life. Have you ever wondered if anything exists beyond what you can see around you? Or have you ever felt restless or dissatisfied, or as if something is calling out to you from somewhere that's not quite here? So many of us are searching for more beyond the relentless daily grind and feeling lost, isolated or out of touch with our hearts and our minds. Though our busy world is full of distraction, what's often harder to find is a clear path through the noise and confusion.Cael O'Donnell is a former mental health therapist who now uses his abilities as a psychic medium to help hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to find guidance from the universe and tap into the resources already within them. From manifestation and dreams to spirit guides, the tools are all around us if we know how to identify and use them. Exploring the three interconnected aspects of our existence - Source, Spirit and Self - Cael explains how we can find our true purpose in life, develop trust in our intrinsic sense of direction, and deal with the loss of loved ones and other challenges life throws at us. Complete with three-minute exercises that can be done in short peaceful moments or turned into a larger ritual of growth and reflection, Three Minutes with Spirit is for anyone curious about deepening their connection to their inner self and the universe around them, and living a more meaningful life.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>O'Donnell, Cael<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>North Sydney, NSW : Penguin Random House Australia, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />203 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Health and Wellbeing - 133.8 ODO - Available - 010608370<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=512542&CF=BIB Evie has been raised in the heart of Aboriginal Redfern, by a proud trailblazing Wiradjuri family. She remembers so much about the previous world - the Dreamtime, the ancestors, and the knowing - but she also harbours a dark pain that is becoming almost too much to bear. And then Evie meets James, a young man radiating pure love who fills her life with light. On the cusp of adulthood, with their whole lives ahead of them, they travel to Evie's beloved country, the central west of New South Wales and the Riverina regions. Swimming in the waters of the Kalare, as known by the Wiradjuri, and in the Murrumbidgee, singing with her ancestors, listening to the spirits. The new world created between Evie and James is one they did not know they were missing. Now they can't leave it alone. They are no longer separate - they are one, they are whole together - until a sudden event leaves them seeking answers to one of life's most eternal questions: is love strong enough to withstand anything? Evie has been raised in the heart of Aboriginal Redfern, by a proud trailblazing Wiradjuri family. She remembers so much about the previous world - the Dreamtime, the ancestors, and the knowing - but she also harbours a dark pain that is becoming almost too much to bear. And then Evie meets James, a young man radiating pure love who fills her life with light. On the cusp of adulthood, with their whole lives ahead of them, they travel to Evie's beloved country, the central west of New South Wales and the Riverina regions. Swimming in the waters of the Kalare, as known by the Wiradjuri, and in the Murrumbidgee, singing with her ancestors, listening to the spirits. The new world created between Evie and James is one they did not know they were missing. Now they can't leave it alone. They are no longer separate - they are one, they are whole together - until a sudden event leaves them seeking answers to one of life's most eternal questions: is love strong enough to withstand anything?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Weldon, Yvonne<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Melbourne, Victoria] : Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />335 pages ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - WELD - Available - 010587491<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - WELD - Available - 010587514<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=514088&CF=BIB "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. "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.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Dank, Debra<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Sydney, N.S.W.] : Echo Publishing, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />xviii, 251 pages ; 21 cm.<br /><br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 305.899 DAN - Available - 010849179<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 305.899 DAN - Available - 010585923<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=519594&CF=BIB Vince Copley was born on a government mission into poverty in 1936. By the time he was 15, five of his family had died. But at a home for Aboriginal boys, he befriended future leaders Charlie Perkins, John Moriarty and Gordon Briscoe. They were friendships that would last a lifetime. 'Always remember you're as good as anybody else,' his mother, Kate, often told him. And he was, a champion footballer and premiership-winning coach. But change was in the air, and Copley knew he had more to contribute. So he teamed up with Charlie Perkins, his 'brother' from the boys' home, to help make life better for his people. At every step, with his beloved wife, Brenda, Copley found light in the darkness, the friendly face in the crowd, the small moments and little things that make the world go round. In The Wonder of Little Things, Copley tells his story with humour, humility and wisdom. Written with his friend Lea McInerney over many cups of tea, it is an Australian classic in the making, a plain-speaking account of hardship, courage and optimism told without self-pity or big-noting. Vince Copley was born on a government mission into poverty in 1936. By the time he was 15, five of his family had died. But at a home for Aboriginal boys, he befriended future leaders Charlie Perkins, John Moriarty and Gordon Briscoe. They were friendships that would last a lifetime. 'Always remember you're as good as anybody else,' his mother, Kate, often told him. And he was, a champion footballer and premiership-winning coach. But change was in the air, and Copley knew he had more to contribute. So he teamed up with Charlie Perkins, his 'brother' from the boys' home, to help make life better for his people. At every step, with his beloved wife, Brenda, Copley found light in the darkness, the friendly face in the crowd, the small moments and little things that make the world go round. In The Wonder of Little Things, Copley tells his story with humour, humility and wisdom. Written with his friend Lea McInerney over many cups of tea, it is an Australian classic in the making, a plain-speaking account of hardship, courage and optimism told without self-pity or big-noting.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Copley, Vince<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Sydney, N.S.W. : ABC Books, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 305.899 COP - Available - 010740988<br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 305.899 COP - Available - 010637721<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 305.899 COP - Available - 010637646<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=519846&CF=BIB In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Australia where she is engaged in long-established collaborations of mapping, storytelling, and placemaking. In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Australia where she is engaged in long-established collaborations of mapping, storytelling, and placemaking.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Mahood, Kim<br />Australian edition.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />xiii, 257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 reserve</span><br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature - 824.4 MAH - Onloan - Due: 21 May 2024 - 010627999<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=519848&CF=BIB In this remarkable memoir, Amy Thunig narrates her journey through childhood and adolescence, growing up with parents who struggled with addiction and incarceration. She reveals the importance of extended family and community networks, and she shows how the stories we tell about ourselves can help to shape and sustain us. In this remarkable memoir, Amy Thunig narrates her journey through childhood and adolescence, growing up with parents who struggled with addiction and incarceration. She reveals the importance of extended family and community networks, and she shows how the stories we tell about ourselves can help to shape and sustain us.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Thunig, Amy<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />266 pages ; 23 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 305.899 THU - Available - 010693024<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 305.899 THU - Available - 010626442<br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 305.899 THU - Available - 010671787<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 305.899 THU - Available - 010689966<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=522440&CF=BIB In this book, Isaiah, a Yorta Yorta and Gunditjmara man, establishes a foundation of First Nations knowledge with 20 key topics and connects us to each topic through his own personal story and culture, from the importance of Elders to the Dreaming. In this book, Isaiah, a Yorta Yorta and Gunditjmara man, establishes a foundation of First Nations knowledge with 20 key topics and connects us to each topic through his own personal story and culture, from the importance of Elders to the Dreaming.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Firebrace, Isaiah<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Wurundjeri Country/Richmond, Victoria : Hardie Grant Explore, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />40 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 27 x 31 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Non-Fiction Society & Beliefs - J 305 FIR - Available - 010691280<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=523232&CF=BIB Blacklight: Ten Years of First Nations Storytelling is a definitive anthology of writing produced entirely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives from Western Sydney and beyond. This powerful collection showcases forty-eight short stories, vignettes, poems, essays and artworks that have been developed over the past ten years as part of the nationally renowned literacy movement known as Sweatshop. Blacklight: Ten Years of First Nations Storytelling is a definitive anthology of writing produced entirely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives from Western Sydney and beyond. This powerful collection showcases forty-eight short stories, vignettes, poems, essays and artworks that have been developed over the past ten years as part of the nationally renowned literacy movement known as Sweatshop.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Parramatta, NSW : Sweatshop Literacy Movement Inc, ACE (Arts & Cultural Exchange), 2022.<br />135 pages ; 24 cm<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - BLAC - Available - 010741305<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=486390&CF=BIB Manifesting queen and influencer Allira Potter has devised a "guidebook" for life that will allow readers to bring in their most abundant life ever. Imagine your dream life. Who are you with? What are you doing? How do you feel? If you're ready to call in everything you ever wanted, from a new lover to your perfect job, manifesting queen Allira Potter knows the secret to creating an abundant AF life. Growing up with a single mum who worked multiple jobs to keep the family afloat, Allira started out with nothing. When she lost her mum at just 17, her life became a wild ride of ups and downs. Allira was married by the age of 22 and divorced only two years later, navigated mental health issues and financial insecurity, and contended with substance abuse and hitting rock bottom... until she came across a deck of oracle cards her mum had left her. That was the day everything changed. In just a few short years, Allira turned it all around, harnessing the power of manifestation and magick to cultivate a life of power, abundance and immeasurable self-worth. Here, she shares her journey and how you, too, can work through loss and grief, build unbreakable self-worth, learn to love every bit of yourself and identify your values. Wild & Witchy will teach you to live in alignment with your heart's truest desires. From this space of clarity, calm and radical authenticity, you can finally begin to turn your dream life into reality. In this "guidebook for life", written in Allira's trademark unapologetic, no-f*cks-given style, you'll find tasks, tools, techniques and a few witchy rituals to help you bring in your most abundant life ever. Manifesting queen and influencer Allira Potter has devised a "guidebook" for life that will allow readers to bring in their most abundant life ever. Imagine your dream life. Who are you with? What are you doing? How do you feel? If you're ready to call in everything you ever wanted, from a new lover to your perfect job, manifesting queen Allira Potter knows the secret to creating an abundant AF life. Growing up with a single mum who worked multiple jobs to keep the family afloat, Allira started out with nothing. When she lost her mum at just 17, her life became a wild ride of ups and downs. Allira was married by the age of 22 and divorced only two years later, navigated mental health issues and financial insecurity, and contended with substance abuse and hitting rock bottom... until she came across a deck of oracle cards her mum had left her. That was the day everything changed. In just a few short years, Allira turned it all around, harnessing the power of manifestation and magick to cultivate a life of power, abundance and immeasurable self-worth. Here, she shares her journey and how you, too, can work through loss and grief, build unbreakable self-worth, learn to love every bit of yourself and identify your values. Wild & Witchy will teach you to live in alignment with your heart's truest desires. From this space of clarity, calm and radical authenticity, you can finally begin to turn your dream life into reality. In this "guidebook for life", written in Allira's trademark unapologetic, no-f*cks-given style, you'll find tasks, tools, techniques and a few witchy rituals to help you bring in your most abundant life ever.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Potter, Allira<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />249 pages ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Health and Wellbeing - 158.1 POT - Available - 010485407<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=501745&CF=BIB The First Astronomers is the first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world. Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens. Most of us cannot even see the Milky Way. But First Nations Elders around the world still maintain this knowledge, and there is much we can learn from them. These Elders are expert observers of the stars. They teach that everything on the land is reflected in the sky, and everything in the sky is reflected on the land. How does this work, and how can we better understand our place in the universe? Guided by six First Nations Elders, Duane Hamacher takes us on a journey across space and time to reveal the wisdom of the first astronomers. These living systems of knowledge challenge conventional ideas about the nature of science and the longevity of oral tradition. Indigenous science is dynamic, adapting to changes in the skies and on Earth, pointing the way for a world facing the profound disruptions of climate change. The First Astronomers is the first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world. Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens. Most of us cannot even see the Milky Way. But First Nations Elders around the world still maintain this knowledge, and there is much we can learn from them. These Elders are expert observers of the stars. They teach that everything on the land is reflected in the sky, and everything in the sky is reflected on the land. How does this work, and how can we better understand our place in the universe? Guided by six First Nations Elders, Duane Hamacher takes us on a journey across space and time to reveal the wisdom of the first astronomers. These living systems of knowledge challenge conventional ideas about the nature of science and the longevity of oral tradition. Indigenous science is dynamic, adapting to changes in the skies and on Earth, pointing the way for a world facing the profound disruptions of climate change.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Hamacher, Duane W.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />xiv, 290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Science and Technology - 520.89 HAM - Available - 010514626<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Science and Technology - 520.89 HAM - Available - 010522928<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=506848&CF=BIB The story of an urban-based high achieving Wiradjuri (var: Wiradyuri) woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia. I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of identity? Anita Heiss, successful author and passionate advocate for Aboriginal literacy, rights and representation, was born a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales but was raised in the suburbs of Sydney and educated at the local Catholic school. In this heartfelt and revealing memoir, told in her distinctive, wry style, with large doses of humour, Anita Heiss gives a firsthand account of her experiences as a woman with a Wiradjuri mother and Austrian father. Anita explains the development of her activist consciousness, how she strives to be happy and healthy, and the work she undertakes every day to ensure the world she leaves behind will be more equitable and understanding than it is today. The story of an urban-based high achieving Wiradjuri (var: Wiradyuri) woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia. I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of identity? Anita Heiss, successful author and passionate advocate for Aboriginal literacy, rights and representation, was born a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales but was raised in the suburbs of Sydney and educated at the local Catholic school. In this heartfelt and revealing memoir, told in her distinctive, wry style, with large doses of humour, Anita Heiss gives a firsthand account of her experiences as a woman with a Wiradjuri mother and Austrian father. Anita explains the development of her activist consciousness, how she strives to be happy and healthy, and the work she undertakes every day to ensure the world she leaves behind will be more equitable and understanding than it is today.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Heiss, Anita, 1968-<br />Revised edition.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[North Sydney, NSW] : Vintage Books Australia, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />vii, 375 pages ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous - 305.899 HEI - Onloan - Due: 09 Jun 2024 - 010511540<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=507099&CF=BIB An anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction - written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, 'this all come back': all those things that have been taken from us, that we collectively mourn the loss of, or attempt to recover and revive, as well as those that we thought we'd gotten rid of, that are always returning to haunt and hound us. Some writers summon ancestral spirits from the past, while others look straight down the barrel of potential futures, which always end up curving back around to hold us from behind. An anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction - written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, 'this all come back': all those things that have been taken from us, that we collectively mourn the loss of, or attempt to recover and revive, as well as those that we thought we'd gotten rid of, that are always returning to haunt and hound us. Some writers summon ancestral spirits from the past, while others look straight down the barrel of potential futures, which always end up curving back around to hold us from behind.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />350 pages ; 23 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - THIS - Available - 010608721<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - THIS - Available - 010608738<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=509568&CF=BIB These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the voice of the Chairman said. I can continue to assure you of this: within the Wall you are perfectly safe. Christine could not sleep, she could not wake, she could not think. She stared, half-blind, at the cold screen of her smartphone. She was told the Agency was keeping them safe from the dangers outside, an outside world she would never see. She never imagined questioning what she was told, what she was allowed to know, what she was permitted to think. She never even thought there were questions to ask. The enclave was the only world she knew, the world outside was not safe. Staying or leaving was not a choice she had the power to make. But then Christine dared start thinking . . . and from that moment, danger was everywhere. These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the voice of the Chairman said. I can continue to assure you of this: within the Wall you are perfectly safe. Christine could not sleep, she could not wake, she could not think. She stared, half-blind, at the cold screen of her smartphone. She was told the Agency was keeping them safe from the dangers outside, an outside world she would never see. She never imagined questioning what she was told, what she was allowed to know, what she was permitted to think. She never even thought there were questions to ask. The enclave was the only world she knew, the world outside was not safe. Staying or leaving was not a choice she had the power to make. But then Christine dared start thinking . . . and from that moment, danger was everywhere.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Coleman, Claire G.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Sydney, N.S.W. : Hachette Australia, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />310 pages ; 24 cm.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Average rating: </span><span style="vertical-align: middle;"><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-blankstar.gif" alt="☆" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-blankstar.gif" alt="☆" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-blankstar.gif" alt="☆" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-blankstar.gif" alt="☆" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-blankstar.gif" alt="☆" /></span> (1 review)<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Sci-Fi - COLE - Available - 010593294<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Sci-Fi - COLE - Available - 010593300<br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Sci-Fi - COLE - Available - 010593317<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Sci-Fi - COLE - Available - 010593324<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=510175&CF=BIB What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Many First Peoples regard the land as a reflection of the sky and the sky a reflection of the land. Sophisticated astronomical expertise embedded within the Dreaming and Songlines is interwoven into a deep understanding of changes on the land, such as weather patterns and seasonal shifts, that are integral to knowledges of time, food availability, and ceremony. In Astronomy: Sky Country, Karlie Noon and Krystal De Napoli explore the connections between Aboriginal environmental and cultural practices and the behaviour of the stars, and consider what must be done to sustain our dark skies, and the information they hold, into the future. What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Many First Peoples regard the land as a reflection of the sky and the sky a reflection of the land. Sophisticated astronomical expertise embedded within the Dreaming and Songlines is interwoven into a deep understanding of changes on the land, such as weather patterns and seasonal shifts, that are integral to knowledges of time, food availability, and ceremony. In Astronomy: Sky Country, Karlie Noon and Krystal De Napoli explore the connections between Aboriginal environmental and cultural practices and the behaviour of the stars, and consider what must be done to sustain our dark skies, and the information they hold, into the future.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Noon, Karlie<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Port Melbourne, VIC : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />224 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.<br />First knowledges ; 4.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous - 520.89 NOO - Onloan - Due: 06 Jun 2024 - 010609018<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=510314&CF=BIB This publication by Myles Russell-Cook accompanies the exhibition Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala, which celebrates the National Gallery of Victoria's extraordinary collection of work by Yolnu women artists who have worked at Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre (Buku), in North-East Arnhem Land. This publication by Myles Russell-Cook accompanies the exhibition Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala, which celebrates the National Gallery of Victoria's extraordinary collection of work by Yolnu women artists who have worked at Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre (Buku), in North-East Arnhem Land.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Russell-Cook, Myles<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2021<br />145 pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm.<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Art and Craft - 704.039 RUS - Available - 010523703<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=486538&CF=BIB The pieces in this seminal collection represent almost four decades of writing by historian and activist Jackie Huggins. These essays, speeches and interviews combine both the public and the personal in a bold trajectory tracing one Murri woman's journey towards self-discovery and human understanding. As a widely respected cultural educator and analyst, Huggins offers an Aboriginal view of the history, values and struggles of Indigenous people. Sister Girl reflects on many important and timely topics, including identity, activism, leadership and reconciliation. It challenges accepted notions of the appropriateness of mainstream feminism in Aboriginal society and of white historians writing Indigenous history. Jackie Huggins' words, then and now, offer wisdom, urgency and hope. The pieces in this seminal collection represent almost four decades of writing by historian and activist Jackie Huggins. These essays, speeches and interviews combine both the public and the personal in a bold trajectory tracing one Murri woman's journey towards self-discovery and human understanding. As a widely respected cultural educator and analyst, Huggins offers an Aboriginal view of the history, values and struggles of Indigenous people. Sister Girl reflects on many important and timely topics, including identity, activism, leadership and reconciliation. It challenges accepted notions of the appropriateness of mainstream feminism in Aboriginal society and of white historians writing Indigenous history. Jackie Huggins' words, then and now, offer wisdom, urgency and hope.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Huggins, Jackie, 1956-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />223 pages ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous - 305.489 HUG - Available - 010473084<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=486544&CF=BIB Pepai Jangala Carroll is a Luritja, Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara man based in Pukatja and working from Ernabella Arts. Carroll was born in 1950, in Haasts Bluff, and later moved to Papunya when the new settlement was created there. He went to school in Papunya before moving to Areyonga, where he finished school, and then travelling on donkey with his family to Eagle Bore, a homeland just north of Ernabella. He has been living in Ernabella ever since. After a long career in a range of community roles, Carroll began painting at Ernabella Arts in 2009, and in 2011 he was introduced to ceramics. Concerned with passing on cultural knowledge, Pepai Jangala Carroll has found his paternal homeland an unwavering source of inspiration and the recurrent subject within his oeuvre of paintings and ceramic sculpture. Pepai Jangala Carroll is a Luritja, Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara man based in Pukatja and working from Ernabella Arts. Carroll was born in 1950, in Haasts Bluff, and later moved to Papunya when the new settlement was created there. He went to school in Papunya before moving to Areyonga, where he finished school, and then travelling on donkey with his family to Eagle Bore, a homeland just north of Ernabella. He has been living in Ernabella ever since. After a long career in a range of community roles, Carroll began painting at Ernabella Arts in 2009, and in 2011 he was introduced to ceramics. Concerned with passing on cultural knowledge, Pepai Jangala Carroll has found his paternal homeland an unwavering source of inspiration and the recurrent subject within his oeuvre of paintings and ceramic sculpture.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Briggs, Belinda<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Mile End, South Australia : Jam Factory/Wakefield Press Pty, Limited, Sept. 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2021<br />134 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.<br />JamFactory icon series<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous - 704.039 BRI - Available - 010367123<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=402780&CF=BIB This wide-ranging and captivating anthology showcases both the power of First Nations writing and the satisfaction of a good short story. Curated by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock roams the landscape of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, bringing together voices from across the generations. Featuring established authors such as Alexis Wright, Tony Birch and Melissa Lucashenko, and rising stars such as Adam Thompson and Mykaela Saunders, Flock confirms the ongoing resonance and originality of First Nations stories. This wide-ranging and captivating anthology showcases both the power of First Nations writing and the satisfaction of a good short story. Curated by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock roams the landscape of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, bringing together voices from across the generations. Featuring established authors such as Alexis Wright, Tony Birch and Melissa Lucashenko, and rising stars such as Adam Thompson and Mykaela Saunders, Flock confirms the ongoing resonance and originality of First Nations stories.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2021<br />xii, 255 pages ; 23 cm<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - FLOC - Onloan - Due: 12 Jun 2024 - 010444183<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=413863&CF=BIB In this unique and highly entertaining autobiography, Alf Taylor chronicles his life growing up in the infamous New Norcia Mission, north of Perth in the fifties and sixties. At once darkly humorous and achingly tragic, God, The Devil and Me tells of the life and desperation of the young children forced into the care of the Spanish Nuns and Brothers who ran the Mission. Their lives made up of varying degrees of cruelty and punishments, these children were the 'little black devils' that God and religion forgot. Written with an acerbic and brutal wit, Alf intersperses dark childhood memories with a Monty Pythonesque retelling of the Bible, in which Peter is an alcoholic and Judas is a good guy. As a child, underfed, poorly clothed and missing his family, Alf sought refuge in the library in the company of Shakespeare and Michelangelo. He writes with joy about the camaraderie of the boys, their love of sport and their own company, but also notes that many descended into despair upon leaving. Most died early. Alf Taylor is one of the 'lucky ones'. In this unique and highly entertaining autobiography, Alf Taylor chronicles his life growing up in the infamous New Norcia Mission, north of Perth in the fifties and sixties. At once darkly humorous and achingly tragic, God, The Devil and Me tells of the life and desperation of the young children forced into the care of the Spanish Nuns and Brothers who ran the Mission. Their lives made up of varying degrees of cruelty and punishments, these children were the 'little black devils' that God and religion forgot. Written with an acerbic and brutal wit, Alf intersperses dark childhood memories with a Monty Pythonesque retelling of the Bible, in which Peter is an alcoholic and Judas is a good guy. As a child, underfed, poorly clothed and missing his family, Alf sought refuge in the library in the company of Shakespeare and Michelangelo. He writes with joy about the camaraderie of the boys, their love of sport and their own company, but also notes that many descended into despair upon leaving. Most died early. Alf Taylor is one of the 'lucky ones'.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Taylor, Alf, 1947-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2020<br />xii, 289 pages ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 305.899 TAY - Available - 010432234<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=413866&CF=BIB "Homecoming pieces together fragments of stories about four generations of Noongar women and explores how they navigated the changing landscapes of colonisation, protectionism, and assimilation to hold their families together. This seminal collection of poetry, prose and historical colonial archives, tells First Nations truths of unending love for children--those that were present, those taken, those hidden and those that ultimately stood in the light. Homecoming speaks to the intergenerational dialogue about Country, kin and culture. This elegant and extraordinary form of restorative story work amplifies Aboriginal women's voices, and enables four generations of women to speak for themselves. This sublime debut highlights the tenacity of family as well as First Nation's agency to resist, survive and renew. Elfie Shiosaki has restored humanity and power to her family in this beautifully articulated collection and has given voice to those silenced by our brutal past."--Website. "Homecoming pieces together fragments of stories about four generations of Noongar women and explores how they navigated the changing landscapes of colonisation, protectionism, and assimilation to hold their families together. This seminal collection of poetry, prose and historical colonial archives, tells First Nations truths of unending love for children--those that were present, those taken, those hidden and those that ultimately stood in the light. Homecoming speaks to the intergenerational dialogue about Country, kin and culture. This elegant and extraordinary form of restorative story work amplifies Aboriginal women's voices, and enables four generations of women to speak for themselves. This sublime debut highlights the tenacity of family as well as First Nation's agency to resist, survive and renew. Elfie Shiosaki has restored humanity and power to her family in this beautifully articulated collection and has given voice to those silenced by our brutal past."--Website.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Shiosaki, Elfie<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2021<br />x, 143 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 20 cm.<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous - 305.899 SHI - Available - 010432395<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=413868&CF=BIB This extraordinary and heartfelt story chronicles the lives of the Rodriguez family of Debesa Station in the West Kimberley; their livelihood through difficult times, love of family, place and culture, and the challenges of day-to-day living on a small sheep station amid huge pastoral properties. Spanning four generations from the 1880s when the author's maternal great-grandfather, Indian deckhand, Jimmy Casim, met and lived with Nigena woman, Lucy Muninga on Yeeda Station near Derby, Debesa centres on the unlikely partnership of Cindy's parents: Frank Rodriguez, once a Benedictine novice monk from Spain, and Katie Fraser, who had been a novitiate in a very different sort of abbey – a convent for 'black' women at Beagle Bay Mission, 130 kilometres north of Broome. Together, Frank and Katie Rodriguez established Debesa, where Cindy and her three siblings grew up with the rich cultural heritage of their Spanish, Nigena and English ancestors. Debesa is a sweeping social history of one family's struggles and triumphs set against the backdrop of the beauty of the West Kimberley. This extraordinary and heartfelt story chronicles the lives of the Rodriguez family of Debesa Station in the West Kimberley; their livelihood through difficult times, love of family, place and culture, and the challenges of day-to-day living on a small sheep station amid huge pastoral properties. Spanning four generations from the 1880s when the author's maternal great-grandfather, Indian deckhand, Jimmy Casim, met and lived with Nigena woman, Lucy Muninga on Yeeda Station near Derby, Debesa centres on the unlikely partnership of Cindy's parents: Frank Rodriguez, once a Benedictine novice monk from Spain, and Katie Fraser, who had been a novitiate in a very different sort of abbey – a convent for 'black' women at Beagle Bay Mission, 130 kilometres north of Broome. Together, Frank and Katie Rodriguez established Debesa, where Cindy and her three siblings grew up with the rich cultural heritage of their Spanish, Nigena and English ancestors. Debesa is a sweeping social history of one family's struggles and triumphs set against the backdrop of the beauty of the West Kimberley.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Solonec, Cindy, 1953-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2021<br />xx, 264 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, genealogical table ; 21 cm.<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 994.14 ROD - Available - 010428763<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=417485&CF=BIB "We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future." On 26 May 2017, after a historic process of consultation, the Uluru Statement from the Heart was read out. This clear and urgent call for reform to the community from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples asked for the establishment of a First Nations Voice to Parliament protected in the constitution and a process of agreement-making and truth-telling. Voice. Treaty. Truth. What was the journey to this point? What do Australians need to know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart? And how can these reforms be achieved? Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart, written by Megan Davis and George Williams, two of Australia's best-known constitutional experts, is essential reading on how our Constitution was drafted, what the 1967 referendum achieved, and the lead-up and response to the Uluru Statement. Importantly, it explains how the Uluru Statement offers change that will benefit the whole nation. "We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future." On 26 May 2017, after a historic process of consultation, the Uluru Statement from the Heart was read out. This clear and urgent call for reform to the community from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples asked for the establishment of a First Nations Voice to Parliament protected in the constitution and a process of agreement-making and truth-telling. Voice. Treaty. Truth. What was the journey to this point? What do Australians need to know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart? And how can these reforms be achieved? Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart, written by Megan Davis and George Williams, two of Australia's best-known constitutional experts, is essential reading on how our Constitution was drafted, what the 1967 referendum achieved, and the lead-up and response to the Uluru Statement. Importantly, it explains how the Uluru Statement offers change that will benefit the whole nation.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Davis, Megan, 1975-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Sydney, NSW : UNSW Press, 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2021<br />234 pages ; 21 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous - 305.899 DAV - Available - 010347781<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=430912&CF=BIB A masterful new story collection from award-winning Indigenous writer Tony Birch. Dark as Last Night confirms, once again, that Tony Birch is a master of the short story. These exceptional stories capture the importance of human connection at pivotal moments in our lives, whether those occur because of the loss of a loved one or the uncertainties of childhood. In this collection we witness a young girl struggling to protect her mother from her father's violence, two teenagers clumsily getting to know one another by way of a shared love of music, and a man mourning the death of his younger brother, while beset by memories and regrets from their shared past. Throughout this powerful collection, Birch's concern for the humanity of those who are often marginalised or overlooked shines bright. A masterful new story collection from award-winning Indigenous writer Tony Birch. Dark as Last Night confirms, once again, that Tony Birch is a master of the short story. These exceptional stories capture the importance of human connection at pivotal moments in our lives, whether those occur because of the loss of a loved one or the uncertainties of childhood. In this collection we witness a young girl struggling to protect her mother from her father's violence, two teenagers clumsily getting to know one another by way of a shared love of music, and a man mourning the death of his younger brother, while beset by memories and regrets from their shared past. Throughout this powerful collection, Birch's concern for the humanity of those who are often marginalised or overlooked shines bright.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Birch, Tony, 1957-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2021<br />219 pages ; 23 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - BIRC - Available - 010448365<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - BIRC - Available - 010448372<br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - BIRC - Available - 010448358<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - BIRC - Onloan - Due: 06 Jun 2024 - 010448327<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - BIRC - - (Set: 02 May 2023) - 010448334<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=470349&CF=BIB He's the viral sensation on TikTok who's showing families that you don't need to spend a motser to feed your hungry household. Western Sydney dad Nathan Lyons regularly feeds his family of eight for just $8, and his #madfeedz videos have attracted more than 127,000 followers and more than 1.4 million likes. Kooking with a Koori is a collection of Nathan's best recipes and more Indigenous Australian soul foods that won't break the bank. His aim is to get Aussies back into the kitchen making their own meals instead of grabbing fast food. So what are you waiting for? Get yourself to the kitchen and start making your own madfeedz! He's the viral sensation on TikTok who's showing families that you don't need to spend a motser to feed your hungry household. Western Sydney dad Nathan Lyons regularly feeds his family of eight for just $8, and his #madfeedz videos have attracted more than 127,000 followers and more than 1.4 million likes. Kooking with a Koori is a collection of Nathan's best recipes and more Indigenous Australian soul foods that won't break the bank. His aim is to get Aussies back into the kitchen making their own meals instead of grabbing fast food. So what are you waiting for? Get yourself to the kitchen and start making your own madfeedz!<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Lyons, Nathan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster Australia, 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2021<br />250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - House and Garden - 641.5 LYO - Available - 010453703<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=470353&CF=BIB A deeply personal exploration of Australia's colonisation past, present and future by one of Australia's finest contemporary authors 'This is a difficult piece to write. It cuts closer to the bone than most of what I have written; closer to my bones, through my blood and flesh to the bones of truth and country; there is truth here, not disguised but in the open and that truth hurts.' In Lies, Damned Lies acclaimed author Claire G. Coleman, a proud Noongar woman, takes the reader on a journey through the past, present and future of Australia, lensed through her own experience. Beautifully written, this literary work blends the personal with the political, offering readers an insight into the stark reality of the ongoing trauma of Australia's violent colonisation. 'Colonisation in Australia is not over. Colonisation is a process, not an event - and the after-effects will continue while there are still people to remember it.' A deeply personal exploration of Australia's colonisation past, present and future by one of Australia's finest contemporary authors 'This is a difficult piece to write. It cuts closer to the bone than most of what I have written; closer to my bones, through my blood and flesh to the bones of truth and country; there is truth here, not disguised but in the open and that truth hurts.' In Lies, Damned Lies acclaimed author Claire G. Coleman, a proud Noongar woman, takes the reader on a journey through the past, present and future of Australia, lensed through her own experience. Beautifully written, this literary work blends the personal with the political, offering readers an insight into the stark reality of the ongoing trauma of Australia's violent colonisation. 'Colonisation in Australia is not over. Colonisation is a process, not an event - and the after-effects will continue while there are still people to remember it.'<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Coleman, Claire G.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Ultimo, N.S.W. : Ultimo Press, 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2021<br />viii, 277 pages ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs - 325.394 COL - Available - 010456179<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=470404&CF=BIB Indigenous cultures are not terra nullius -- nobody's land, free to be taken. True Tracks paves the way for the respectful and ethical engagement with Indigenous knowledges and cultures. Using real-world cases and personal stories, Meriam/Wuthathi lawyer Dr Terri Janke draws on twenty years of professional experience to inform and inspire people working across many industries -- from art and architecture, to film and publishing, dance, science and tourism. What Indigenous materials and knowledge are you using? How will your project affect and involve Indigenous communities? Are your sharing your profits with those communities? True Tracks helps answer these questions and many more, and provides invaluable guidelines that enable Indigenous peoples to actively practise, manage and strengthen their cultural life. If we keep our tracks true, Indigenous culture and knowledge can benefit everyone and empower future generations. Indigenous cultures are not terra nullius -- nobody's land, free to be taken. True Tracks paves the way for the respectful and ethical engagement with Indigenous knowledges and cultures. Using real-world cases and personal stories, Meriam/Wuthathi lawyer Dr Terri Janke draws on twenty years of professional experience to inform and inspire people working across many industries -- from art and architecture, to film and publishing, dance, science and tourism. What Indigenous materials and knowledge are you using? How will your project affect and involve Indigenous communities? Are your sharing your profits with those communities? True Tracks helps answer these questions and many more, and provides invaluable guidelines that enable Indigenous peoples to actively practise, manage and strengthen their cultural life. If we keep our tracks true, Indigenous culture and knowledge can benefit everyone and empower future generations.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Janke, Terri<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2021<br />xii, 414 pages ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous - 305.899 JAN - Available - 010455738<br />