Indigenous Studies
In early 2021, the Victorian government announced the creation of the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission to investigate the harms done to Aboriginal people through colonisation. Named after the word for truth in the Wemba Wemba/Wamba Wamba langauge, Yoo-rrook will be the first exercise of its kind in an Australian jurisdiction and one of the most significant responses yet offered to the call for Voice, Treaty and Truth issued by the Aboriginal peoples of Australia in the ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’.
... (read more)Black, White and Exempt: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives under exemption edited by Lucinda Aberdeen and Jennifer Jones
by Marilyn Lake •
The Children’s Country: Creation of a Goolarabooloo future in north-west Australia by Stephen Muecke
by Philip Morrissey •
Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, property and Indigenous people by Bain Attwood
by Lisa Ford •
Truth-telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds
by Sarah Maddison •
Tjanimaku Tjukurpa: How one young man came good by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council
by Kim Mahood •
Pathfinders: A history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW by Michael Bennett
by Michael Winkler •
On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal strike, Western Australia 1946–1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
by Jan Richardson •
Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
by Billy Griffiths •
Fire Country: How Indigenous fire management could help save Australia by Victor Steffensen
by Tim Low •