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One Minute’s Silence

A moving and powerful story about the meaning of Remembrance Day, drawing on the ANZAC and Turkish …

Year: Primary, Year 5 Author: David Metzenthen Illustrator: Michael Camilleri Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2014

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Ned Kelly and the Green Sash

A narrative non-fiction picture book about the life of Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang, Australia’s …

Year: Primary, Year 5 Author: Mark Greenwood Illustrator: Frane Lessac Publisher: Walker Books Australia Published year: 2010

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My Place (Nadia Wheatley)

Everyone is part of History, and every place has a story as old as the earth. My Place depicts …

Year: Primary, Year 3 Author: Nadia Wheatley Illustrator: Donna Rawlins Publisher: Walker Books Australia Published year: 1987

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Midnite

Even though MIDNITE was seventeen, he wasn't very bright. So when his father died, his five animal …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Randolph Stow Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1967

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Maralinga, the Anangu Story

An extraordinary illustrated history told from the Indigenous perspective and created through a …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Yalata and Oak Valley Communities, Christobel Mattingley Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2009

Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines

In producing this edition, Muecke and Shoemaker have at last righted the injustices done to David …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: David Unaipon, Adam Shoemaker, Stephen Muecke Publisher: MUP Published year: 2001

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Kath Walker in China

OUT OF PRINT Collection of poems in English with translations into Putonghua (modern standard …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Oodgeroo Noonuccal Publisher: Jacaranda Press Published year: 1988

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Inside My Mother

In her memoir Too Afraid to Cry, published in 2013, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann related how …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Ali Cobby Eckermann Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Published year: 2015

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Finding Eliza

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Fiona Foley, Finding …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Larissa Behrendt Publisher: UQP Published year: 2016

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Dark Emu

Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Bruce Pascoe Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2014

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