Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous

In the 1970s, the run-down inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern was a gathering place for Aboriginal intellectuals and ambitious young radicals. Having fled poverty and segregation in rural Australia in the 1950s and 60s, they set about fulfilling their vision - a new way of living, where Aboriginal pe...

Reef and Rainforest is a unique coffee-table style book showcasing the Australian Aboriginal art of Munganbana. There are over 200 artistic works presented in a beautifully designed book. As you turn the pages of this book, you will notice the greens and blues of the rainforest, reef and rivers, ...

During the 1940s and '50s, in Australia, many icons of Aboriginal descent rose to prominence, and were representative of the culture of the day, and of their own people. Some permanently influenced the minds of Australians, remaining famous to this day - others have been unjustly forgotten.

The backdrop to Returning is a time of huge upheaval with natural disasters, COVID and the Black Lives Matter Movement.Each poem is accompanied by evocative and poignant artwork that was created in response to its poem and vitalises its meaning. The artworks, visual poems, were originally shown a...

The Kulkyne is a unique environment of semi-permanent lakes and woodlands formed the Murray River overflowing into the Mallee south of Mildura. Before colonial occupation, it was one of the most densely settled areas of Aboriginal Australia. Returning the Kulkyne tells the story of the colonial d...

Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta's bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, 'an extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming'. Right Story, Wrong Story extends Yunkaporta's explorations of how we can learn from Indigenous thinking....