Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr
Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr is a Yolŋu man from the Ganalbingu clan and is known for his paintings of Ganalbingu song lines as well as his mother’s Wägilak clan stories. Along with other members of his clan, Johnny keeps culture strong through …
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Jasmine Seymour
Jasmine Seymour is a Darug woman and descendant of Maria Lock, who was the daughter of Yarramundi, the Boorooberongal elder who had met Governor Phillip on the banks of the Hawkesbury River in 1791. Maria was the first Aboriginal woman to be educated…
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Leanne Mulgo Watson
Leanne Mulgo Watson is a Darug artist-educator and is the daughter of Aunty Edna Watson. She has been a director of the Darug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation for many years. Cooee Mittigar is her first book. She says “I had always wanted to …
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Cooee Mittigar
Cooee Mittigar, meaning Come Here Friend, is an invitation to yana (walk), on Darug Country. In …
Year:
Primary, Year 4
Author:
Jasmine Seymour
Illustrator:
Leanne Mulgo Watson
Publisher:
Magabala Books
Published year:
2019
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Baby Business
Warm smoke from the fire on your mouth. Keep our language on your tongue. Our words are the song of …
Year:
Primary, Year 3
Author:
Jasmine Seymour
Publisher:
Magabala Books
Published year:
2019
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The Garret: Maxine Beneba Clarke
Reading Australia presents this Maxine Beneba Clarke podcast, with permission from The Garret …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11
Author:
Maxine Beneba Clarke
Publisher:
The Garret
Published year:
2019
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Bren MacDibble
Bren MacDibble was raised on farms all over New Zealand, so is an expert about being a kid on the land. After 20 years in Melbourne, Bren sold everything and spent two years living and working in a bus travelling around Australia. She recently parked…
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How to Bee
A story about family, loyalty, kindness and bravery, set against an all-too-possible future where …
Year:
Secondary, Year 7
Author:
Bren MacDibble
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Published year:
2017
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Wai Chim
Wai Chim is a first generation Chinese-American from New York City. She grew up speaking Cantonese at home and absorbing Western culture through books, TV and school. She spent some time living in Japan before making Sydney, Australia her permanent …
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The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
This compelling young adult novel about growing up in a migrant Asian family with a mother who is …
Year:
Secondary, Year 9
Author:
Wai Chim
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Published year:
2019
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