Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous

Fifteen years after its first publication, Black Words White Page remains as fresh as ever. This award-winning study – the first comprehensive treatment of the nature and significance of Indigenous Australian literature – was based upon the author’s doctoral research at The Australian National Un...

This remarkable true story pays tribute to a band of Aboriginal boys who grew up together in one group home - many succeeding spectacularly in later life. In 1945, Anglican priest Father Percy Smith brought six boys from their Northern Territory home to an Adelaide beach suburb. There, they becam...

Grahame Walsh was the world's leading expert on Australian pre-historic rock art. He criss-crossed the remote vastness of Australia's Kimberley Region in search of unique pre-historic rock art known as the Bradshaw paintings. Australia's importance as the richest rock art continent on earth is li...

Australian voters are not being told the truth about the proposal for constitutional recognition of indigenous people. The goal of Aboriginal political activists today is to gain 'sovereignty' and create a black state, equivalent to the existing states. Its territory, comprising all land defined ...

The inside story of the 2023 Voice Referendum, from Yes to No In late 2023, Australians voted No to recognising Indigenous peoples through a constitutional Voice. Broken Heart unpacks the true complex history of the referendum, illuminating how an alliance with constitutional conservatives fractu...