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First Nations History

First Nations History
Looking Black (2022)
Martin, Kelrick and Dan Bourchier, Executive Producers; ABC Indigenous
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.
First Nations History
Indigenous Affairs: Government
Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue (2020)
Stuart Rintoul
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.
First Nations History
Maralinga Tjarutja (2020)
Behrendt, Larissa, Director; Blackfella Films
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.
First Nations History
Western Australia
Mowanjum: 50 Years Community History (2008)
Mowanjum Aboriginal Community and Mowanjum Artists Spirit of the Wandjina Aboriginal Corporation, Derby, WA (compiled and edited by Mary Anne Jebb)
'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.
First Nations History
Our Original Aggression: Aboriginal Populations of Southeastern Australia, 1788-1850 (1983)
Butlin, Noel
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.
Indigenous Affairs: Government
First Nations History
Our Voices From The Heart: the Authorised Story of the Community Campaign that Changed Australia (2023)
Davis, Megan and Patricia Anderson
The story of the twelve Regional Dialogues and the Uluru National Constitutional Convention, attended by 1500 everyday First Peoples. The unanimous result was the Uluru Statement From The Heart, and its call for Voice and Makarrata.