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First Nations History

Frontier Wars
First Nations History
How They Fought: Indigenous Tactics and Weaponry of Australia’s Frontier Wars (2023)
Kerkhove, Ray
Written as an introductory guidebook, it is broken into chapters covering organisation, strategies, weaponry, and defences. It considers both traditional practices and technological and tactical adaptations. To make this complex topic more accessible, How They Fought includes numerous tables, figures and diagrams that illustrate and summarise the contents.
First Nations History
Independent Australia
Various authors
Regularly features articles relevant to First Nations history, the Voice and Frontier Wars
First Nations History
Inside Story
Various authors
Regularly features articles relevant to First Nations history, the Voice and Frontier Wars
First Nations History
Western Australia
Jilya: How one Indigenous woman from the remote Pilbara transformed psychology (2024)
Tracy Westerman
From humble beginnings in the remote Pilbara, psychologist and Nyamal woman Tracy Westerman has redefined what’s possible at every turn. Despite neither of her parents progressing past primary school, and never having met a psychologist before attending university, Tracy went on to become the first Aboriginal person in Australia to complete a PhD in Clinical Psychology, rising to become one of the country’s foremost psychologists.
First Nations History
Queensland
Know Their Names (2025)
Lesley Synge
It concerns itself with the erasure of Aboriginal people from Australian history and examines the Queensland Government's Rewan Police Horse Breeding Station in the Central Highlands as a case study of erasure 1909-34.
First Nations History
Western Australia
Living in Hope (2017)
Byrne, Frank with Frances Coughlan and Gerard Waterford
This is the story of the early years of my life. The story of a boy who was taken away from his mother and his family forever when he was just six years old. He had no say in it. His family had no say in it. The government had all the say in everything.