While Patrick Dodson's bearded image is well known, the remarkable history of this outstanding Aboriginal leader has never before been known. In Paddy's Road, Kevin Keeffe brings us stories of Dodson's life woven from interviews, government archives and family stories.
Indigenous Australian cultures were long known to the world mainly from the writing of anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, missionaries, and others. Indigenous Australians themselves have worked across a range of genres to challenge and reconfigure this textual legacy, s…
A gripping memoir about living across two cultures. Growing up 'on country' on the west coast of Queensland's Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and '80s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age of 16, she decided to pursue her dream of performin…
The first in-depth study of media portrayals of well-known indigenous women in Australia and New Zealand, including Goolagong, Te Kanawa, Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Dame Whina Cooper. The power of the media in shaping the lives of individuals and communities, for good or ill, is wid…
Life history of Doris Kartinyeri; tells of her removal as a baby to the Colebrook Home without her family being told; life at Colebrook Home; experience as a sufferer of bi-polar affective disorder; family; writing poetry and finding her voice.
"Dreaming in motion celebrates the achievements over more than a decade of Australia's Indigenous filmmakers and the role played in their collective success by the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission. Filmmaker entries include personal statements, biographies, fi…
Orphaned as a child and brought up by a housekeeper, Sir Ronald left school at fourteen to earn a living as a messenger in the local Geraldton courthouse, before subsequently enjoying a meteoric rise in the legal profession to become a Justice in the highest court in Australia. …
"What does being an archaeologist mean to Indigenous persons? How and why do some become archaeologists? What has led them down a path to what some in their communities have labeled a colonialist venture? What were are the challenges they have faced, and the motivations that hav…