Ethical Understanding

Death Sentence

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

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The Garret: Don Watson

Don Watson began his literary career an academic historian, but soon moved on to political …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Don Watson Publisher: The Garret Published year: 2017

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Waves

Waves is a narrative nonfiction book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia…

Year: Primary, Year 4 Author: Donna Rawlins Illustrator: Mark Jackson, Heather Potter Publisher: Walker Books Australia Published year: 2018

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Once There Was A Boy

The whimsical story of a little boy with a broken heart who meets a young girl who shares his secret…

Year: Primary, Year 3 Author: Dub Leffler Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2011

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Sonam and the Silence

A haunting fable-like story by the well-known musician and author, Eddie Ayres, about the power of …

Year: Primary, Year 3 Author: Eddie Ayres Illustrator: Ronak Taher Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2018

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Burning Rice

These poems were written while Eileen Chong was an Australian Poetry Fellow in 2011–2012, mentored…

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Eileen Chong Publisher: Pitt Street Poetry Published year: 2012

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Heat and Light

In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven leads readers on a journey that is mythical…

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Ellen van Neerven Publisher: UQP Published year: 2014

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Dot and the Kangaroo

Lost and afraid in the darkening bush, Dot is befriended by a kind Kangaroo. She eats the berries of…

Year: Primary, Year 5, Year 6 Author: Ethel Charlotte Pedley Illustrator: Frank Mahony Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Published year: 1899

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Seven Little Australians

'Without doubt Judy was the worst of the seven, probably because she was the cleverest.' Her father…

Year: Primary, Year 5, Year 6 Author: Ethel Turner Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1894

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Past the Shallows

Joe, Miles, and Harry are growing up on the remote southern coast of Tasmania - a stark, untamed …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Favel Parrett Publisher: Hachette Australia Published year: 2014

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