Bain Attwood.

Attwood takes us to the heart of the conflict about the Aboriginal past in Australia. He tracks the growing popularity of history and weighs the consequences for the nature of historical knowledge and the authority of the historians. Attwood ponders how the traumatic history of frontier conflict might better be remembered - and mourned - and why telling the truth about history matters for the nation and for all of us. 264 pages.

The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island 

Chloe Hooper

The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.

'The country's finest work of literature so far this century.  A haunting moral maze, described with such intimate observation and exquisite restraint that I kept pausing to take a breath and silently cheer the author.  in her tale of the fatal collision between two 36-year-old males, black Cameron Doomadgee and white Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, Hooper . . . has produced an Australian classic.'
ROBERT DREWE, THE AGE

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Bob Verburgt. 

The author's bush experiences as a patrol officer in the Western Desert in the 1950s and 1960s.

Culture and identity, suffering and the triumph of survival thread their way through short stories, poems, legends, song lyrics, essays and commentaries in this remarkable anthology of Aboriginal writing.

Janusz B Kreczmanski & Margo Stanislawska-Birnberg.

The Tjulkurra means 'one with grey hair'. This is a small biography of Billy Stockman, one of the most famous of the Papunya Tula artists.

Treading Lightly

We are consuming more than our earth can provide. In Australia, cities and towns struggle to maintain a reliable water supply, climate change triggers droughts which devastate farmland, and fish stocks are running low. It is increasingly clear that we are heading towards collapse if we don't change direction.

Aboriginal people taught themselves thousands of years ago how to live sustainably in Australia's fragile landscape. A Scandinavian knowledge management professor meets an Aboriginal cultural custodian and dares to ask the simple but vital question: what can we learn from the traditional Aboriginal lifestyle to create a sustainable society in modern Australia?

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.

Treading Lightly takes us on a unique journey into traditional Aboriginal life and culture, and offers a powerful and original model for building sustainable organisations, communities and ecologies. It is a compelling message for today's world.

Under the Wintamarra Tree

The eagerly awaited sequel to Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. Doris Pilkington Garimara was taken to the Moore River Native Settlement when she was three. Doris eventually goes to Perth to train as a nurse’s aide but the racist culture of an institutional upbringing leaves an indelible mistrust of her own people. This is an obstacle she has to overcome when she begins the journey to find her parents and her Mardu heritage.

Unearthed : The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island

Rebe Taylor.

It is relatively well known that the Palawa community of Tasmania is mostly descended from the Aboriginal Tasmanian women who sealers took to the Bass Strait Islands in the early nineteenth century. But few people know that sealers also took Tasmanian women to Kangaroo Island, establishing a cross-cultural community before the settlement of South Australia. Aboriginal Tasmanian descendants are still living on Kangaroo Island today and this book is their story. Beginning in the sealing days, it tells how they became successful farmers, but how many grew up unaware of their Aboriginal ancestry, and are still struggling to face questions of identity today.

'This is a powerful and passionate exploration of cross-cultural history, and it is also an intriguing detective story. Taylor skilfully interweaves experience and memory, narrative and genealogy, politics and place so that this island saga becomes a history of the national psyche.' - Tom Griffiths, Australian National University.

The Unlucky Australians

Frank Hardy.

The day Gough Whitlam poured the red soil of Gurindji country into Vincemt Lingari’s hand in 1975 was a momentous day in the history of  Land Rights in this country. The Gurindji took on the might of Lord Vestey and the Australian Government. They were dogged in their determination to live on the land of their dreaming, their traditional land. 257pp.

Jan Critchett.

Untold stories opens our eyes to a number of remarkable individuals who managed to make a life for themselves in the interstices of the society that had dispossessed them. Their long running battle to maintain their culture and their connection to country, in the face of a regime that seemed bent on denying their humanity, is both bumbling and inspiring.

David Spillman & Lisa Wilyuka.

Young adult fiction. Central Australia, 1960s. Ruby lives on a cattle station and goes to the 'silver bullet' school. With curiosity and wry humour she begins to question her teacher's unusual ways as she seeks to understand why two cultures are so at odds with each other.

Alexander Donald Pwerle Ross & Terry Whitebeach.

Don Ross was eight year old when he first started work in the stock camps on his grandfather's cattle station in the early 1920s. Ina series of yarns he delights in recalling the many colourful characters who crossed his path and recollects the arduous and often dangerous life of a stockman.