Robert Lowe's affection and regard for "The Mish", a property in Victoria's southwest, originally an Aboriginal mission, is warmly coveyed in this candid memoir. In the 1950s and '60s when Robert was growing up, "The Mish" was a close-knot community made up of the Aboriginal descendents of Framlingham Aboriginal Mission Station, founded in 1865. Robert's adventurous boyhood was a secure and unfettered time spent with siblings and cousins enjoying hunting, fishing and eel trapping.

Teachings by the community elders instilled in him a connection to the land and a spirituality he would, in turn, pass on to following generations. When Robert and his bride leave the Mish, a new chapter begins in a nearby town where acceptance and respect are hard won

Mission Girls examines the situation of Aboriginal women who lived on the Catholic missions of Beagle Bay and Kalumburu, in the north-west of Australia, between 1900 and 1950. Drawing on oral and archival sources, Christine Choo explores the effects of European colonization on these women, and the politics of race, gender and class in the colonizing process.

Sally Morgan.

My place begins with Sally Morgan tracing the experiences of her own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds – a mystery of identity, complete with clues and suggested solutions.

This book also incorporates The Passing of The Aborigines. In scientific circles, Daisy Bates was dismissed as a crank. However, anthropologists, historians and all those interested in Aboriginal Australia have begun to realise that her unique knowledge of Aboriginal society cannot be lightly dismissed. In this edition her original 1936 newspaper series, 'My Natives and I' has been integrated with the 1938 book, restoring the omissions and indicating the additions. 

The story of Thomas Corbett and the Moore River experience"You may think I'm raving on, or just talking to hear myself talk, but I am deadly serious. These were the times when I was young. I've lived through them and they are very real to me. After all these years I still remember, and feel so angry at our being treated like dumb animals. We were degraded beyond the concepts of any basic human rights. We had none. I don't know how we Aborigines even survived such dominance or despair. But survive we did and I am living to tell my story.

"It looks like there's two laws, white man law and Aboriginal Law...Now this is the way we are thinking - to pull the white man from the ears to listen to what the Aboriginal Law will say". Dicky skinner. Noonkanbah 1978.

Ochre and Rust

Artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers

Philip Jones

Ochre and Rust takes nine Aboriginal and colonial artefacts from their museum shelves, and positions them at the centre of these gripping, poignant tales set in the heart of Australia’s frontier zone.

Josephine Flood

Josephine Flood answers the questions about Aboriginal Australia that Australians and visitors often ask: Where did the Aborigines come from and when? How did they survive in such a harsh environment? What was the traditional role of Aboriginal women? Why didn't colonists sign treaties with Aboriginal people? Were Aboriginal children stolen? Why are there so many problems in Aboriginal communities today? And many more.

This rich account aims to understand both black and white perspectives and is fascinating reading for anyone who wants to discover aboriginal Australia.