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Don’t Take Your Love to Town

A seminal work of Indigenous memoir. Ruby Langford Ginibi’s remarkable talent for storytelling …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Ruby Langford Ginibi Publisher: UQP Published year: 1988

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Tracks

'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Robyn Davidson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Published year: 1980

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Ugly (Younger Readers)

This inspirational, bestselling true Australian story is now published in multiple countries, …

Year: Secondary Author: Robert Hoge Publisher: Hachette Australia Published year: 2015

A Mother’s Disgrace

'A journey of identity by a virtuoso in language and master of narrative control . . . a brave, …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Robert Dessaix Publisher: Angus & Robertson Published year: 1994

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Romulus, My Father

Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Raimond Gaita Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1999

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Good Muslim Boy

Good Muslim Boy tells the story of Osamah Sami’s journey from Iran during the Iraq war to the …

Author: Osamah Sami Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing Published year: 2015

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

A Stolen Generations story of astounding courage: three Aboriginal girls, taken from their mothers, …

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Author: Nugi Garimara (Doris Pilkington) Publisher: UQP Published year: 1996

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The Hate Race

Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Maxine Beneba Clarke Publisher: Hachette Australia Published year: 2016

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Velocity

Velocity tells the moving, painful but often hilarious story of Mandy Sayer's childhood and …

Author: Mandy Sayer Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2005

Wandjuk Marika: Life Story

Wandjuk Marika: Life Story is the autobiography of one of Australia's greatest indigenous statesmen…

Author: Jennifer Isaacs Publisher: UQP Published year: 1995