Philip Clarke. 

Clarke paints a remarkable picture of the culture and traditions of Aboriginal Australia. Drawing on research from anthropology, cultural geography and environmental studies as well as his own fieldwork, he explains the diverse ways in which Aboriginal people relate to the land across the continent. Heavily illustrated, this book will appeal to anyone interested in understanding the traditional lifestyle of Aboriginal people.

Richard Trudgen. 

Written after 10 years working with Arnhem Land Aborigines explores their people, problems and reconciliation. This book works towards an understanding of why the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land face the greatest crisis in health and education since European contact.

Why Weren't We Told

Henry Reynolds. 

Why Weren’t We Told? is a frank account of Historian Henry Reynolds personal journey towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with distorted and idealised version of the past. From the author’s unforgettable encounter in a North Queensland jail with injustice towards Aboriginal children, to his friendship with Eddie Mabo, to his shattering of the myths about our peaceful history, this bestselling book will shock, move and intrigue.  

Hazel McCallum's story as told to Kerry McCallum. 

Sent out to work at 11, married at 16, a mother at 17 and on the track as a drovers wife, Hazel McKellar has had a life of drama. "I crossed the raging Cato Creek with three horses, a wagonette and four children..." The drover's wife becomes drover herself, in charge of 5,000 head. Hazel graduates to consultant and heads off to do battle in committees after the Cunnamulla 'riot' arouses her fighting spirit to new causes.

For over a decade the Drake-Brockman family have been depicted as heartless exploiters of the Aboriginal people. Now Judith Drake-Brockman has spoken out. Wongi Wongi tells a story, not of a people dispossessed, but a people loved and cared for by their employers. This book is a personal history and account of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relationships supported by documentation from official files. The author does not deny the tragedies of the past but helps place them in perspective.

Brilliantly captured are the many bittersweet experiences of his family such as fleeing the Forrest River Mission to escape the threat of a WW2 Japanese invasion and travelling the vast Kimberley landscape in search of work and a place to settle. Back in Wyndham, against a backdrop of yarns spun by station legends still clinging to their colonial roots, Reginald Birch brings to life the challenges faced by an Aboriginal family as they carve their place in an outback society. 228pp.

In a remarkable collaboration, Aboriginal elder Mowaljarlai and photographer Jutta Malnic rekindle a story that reaches back 60,000 years, constituting the oldest collective memory of humankind. Illustrated with more than 120 colour plates, this work tells of the Wandjina creation spirits and their "crossing over" into ancestor entities (personae) and eventually into human form.