Reading List category: 

First Nations History

First Nations History
The Passion of Private White (2023)
Watson, Don
The story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land—a unique window into Australia’s deep past and precarious present, by one of our master storytellers.
The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: that of the intensely driven anthropologist Neville White, and the world of hunter-gatherer clans in remote northern Australia with whom he has lived and worked for half a century, mapping their culture and history in breathtaking detail.
First Nations History
The Queen is Dead (2023)
Grant, Stan
The Queen is Dead is a full-throated, impassioned argument on the necessity for an end to monarchy in Australia, the need for a Republic, and what needs to be done - through the Voice to Parliament and beyond - to address and redress the pain and sorrow and humiliations of the past. Momentous and timely, The Queen is Dead carries an urgent, undeniable and righteous demand for justice, for a reckoning, and a just settlement with First Nations people. Grant is the author of a number of other books, including Australia Day, Tears of Strangers, and Talking to My Country.
Frontier Wars
First Nations History
The Real Battle for Australia: Pioneering writing on the Frontier Wars (Parts I-III) (2014)
McQueen, Humphrey
Three articles originally written in 1973, 1977 and 1981, and republished by permission of the author in Honest History. McQueen’s 1973 research used the resources of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
First Nations History
The Remote Garrison: The British Army in Australia, 1788-1870 (1986)
Stanley, Peter
The history of the British army in Australia; from the arrival of the First Fleet to 1870 when the various Australian colonies started to take over their own defence.
Indigenous Affairs: Government
First Nations History
The Voice
Australian Government
In late 2023, Australians will have their say in a referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Contains key documents and resources, latest news.
Indigenous Affairs: Government
First Nations History
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need (2023)
Mayo, Thomas and Kerry O’Brien
By Indigenous leader Thomas Mayo and acclaimed journalist Kerry O’Brien, this is a clear, concise and simple guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but who want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means.