At just ten years old, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts was forcibly removed – stolen – from her family, community and kinship systems. After eight years in various out-of-home care placements, Vanessa fled the system, reconnected with kin and returned to country for the very first time. Only then did she begin to heal. In this book, Vanessa embarks on an extraordinary work of truth-telling, exposing the ongoing violence visited on Black children, their families and their communities by the systems that claim to protect them.

Explores the impact of Indigenous storytelling at the ABC, and how it has created deep and honest conversations about the experience of First Nations journalists, storytellers, and presenters.

Lowitja O'Donoghue is a truly great Australian. She is arguably our nation's most recognised Indigenous woman. A powerful and unrelenting advocate for her people, an inspiration for many, a former Australian of the Year, she sat opposite Prime Minister Paul Keating in the first negotiations between an Australian government and Aboriginal people and changed the course of the nation.

The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and, through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength, fight to retain their country.

'This book was made so Mowanjum people and their families could speak in their own words about their lives and their community, relocated away from their countries for 50 years. It is a book of many voices, and many historical and contemporary images designed to be dipped into to generate further stories.' Richly illustrated; many authors. Mowanjum was established in 1956 on the outskirts of Derby, although its people came from the coastal areas and islands north of Derby.

Proposes that we need to multiply by several times the existing estimates of pre-contact Aboriginal populations and to revise radically our understanding of why their numbers declined. We may even need to think about black population destruction as an act of genocide.