A memoir by the late Frank Byrne, a member of the Stolen Generations, has been named the most underrated book of 2018. The Small Press Network, which represents independentpublishers in Australia and New Zealand, awarded […]
The hardships of more than 80 Western Australian Aboriginal men who enlisted and served in World War I, despite legislative attempts to exclude them, have been illustrated in a new publication. No Less Worthy was launched […]
False Claims of Colonial Thieves starts with mining. Charmaine Papertalk Green reflects on her grandmother, glad that the only mining she knew was the mining of ochre for body and hair during ceremony. She reflects […]
Tarpin’. It’s where you sneak up onto the back of someone’s ute, lie quietly under the tarp, and go for a ride to who-knows-where. It’s a test of courage. It’s about becoming a man. It […]
Crocs, kookaburras and a dingo howling in the golden light of the moon—these are some of the creatures that populate mother-and-son team Sally Morgan and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s gorgeous book for infants We All Sleep. The […]
Whitework, bloodwork, badwork, blakwork: Alison Whittaker’s sassy second collection of poems is structured in chapters ranging from the collective to the deeply personal, from the comic, to the deadly serious. A Gomeroi woman, from the […]
The extraordinary story of Australia’s first Indigenous fighter pilot Len Waters is told in a new book to be released on July 2. Waters, a Gamilaraay man who was born at the Euraba Aboriginal Mission […]
Noongar author Kim Scott has won both Book of the Year and the biennial Indigenous Writers’ Prize in the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards for his third novel Taboo. Mr Scott also $40,000 in […]
Single-handed and under heavy fire, Aboriginal hero of WWI William Allan Irwin rushed three separate enemy machine gun posts, capturing the munitions and crew before being severely wounded charging a fourth. The date was August […]
Heavily outnumbered and in jungle conditions, Aboriginal servicemen were among Australian troops who fought a guerrilla war against the Viet Cong in the Vietnam War. Their memories and history are part of the new book, […]
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