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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.
February 22, 2024
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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.
June 18, 2025
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New South Wales
Murder at Myall Creek: the Trial that Defined a Nation (2017)
Mark Tedeschi
In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in northern New South Wales. The trial created an enormous amount of controversy because it was almost unknown for Europeans to be charged with the murder of Aborigines. It would become the most serious trial of mass murder in Australia’s history. The trial’s prosecutor was the Attorney General of New South Wales, John Hubert Plunkett. It proved to be Plunkett’s greatest test, as it pitted his forensic brilliance and his belief in equality before the law against the combined forces of the free settlers, the squatters, the military, the emancipists, the newspapers, and even the convict population.
June 9, 2024
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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.
August 10, 2023
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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.
October 9, 2023
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Frontier Wars
South Australia
Out of the Silence: The History and Memory of South Australia’s Frontier Wars (2012)
Foster, Robert and Amanda Nettelbeck
Explores the nature and extent of violence on South Australia's frontiers in light of the foundational promise to provide Aboriginal people with the protection of the law, and the resonances of that history in social memory. What do we find when we compare the history of the frontier with the patterns of how it is remembered and forgotten? And what might this reveal about our understanding of the nation's history and its legacies in the present?
August 21, 2023
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