Books

Dimboola

Playfully vulgar, bawdy and boisterous, Dimboola plays out the wedding reception from hell, with …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Jack Hibberd Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1968

Teacher Resource Essay

Dhuuluu-Yala is a Wiradjuri phrase meaning ‘to talk straight’ and this book is straight talk …

Author: Anita Heiss Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press Published year: 2003

When Avalon moves to the city her life is turned upside down. Starting at a new high school, she …

Author: Kate McCaffrey Publisher: Fremantle Press Published year: 2006

It's raining up north and soon everything will change for the desert lake. The dry salt bed of Kati…

Year: Primary, Year 5 Author: Pamela Freeman Illustrator: Liz Anelli Publisher: Walker Books Australia Published year: 2016

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Don Watson's Death Sentence is scathing, funny and brilliant. In public life the Australian …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Don Watson Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2004

Teacher Resource Essay

'Deadly, unna?' He was always saying that. All the Nungas did, but Dumby more than any of them. …

Author: Phillip Gwynne Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia, Picture Puffin Published year: 1998

A potent, intense psychodrama that will keep you gripped to the very last page. Aaron Rowe walks …

Year: Secondary Author: Scot Gardner Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2011

In these sublimely sophisticated tales, Cate Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail. Her …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Cate Kennedy Publisher: Scribe Published year: 2012

Teacher Resource Essay

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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In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women, …

Author: Inga Clendinnen Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2003