Adrian Threlfall
Adrian Threlfall is a lecturer in history at Victoria University, Melbourne, and a member of the education team at the Shrine of Remembrance, Victoria. A former infantryman in the Australian Army Reserve, he is the author of Reg Saunders: An …
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Hugh Dolan
Hugh Dolan is a storyteller with a keen interest in Australian history. He is the author of a number of books on major Australian events, and now prefers to use the medium of graphic novels — or factual comics. Two of his latest titles — …
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Shake A Leg
A unique picture book collaboration about having fun, sharing culture and the power of story and …
Year:
Primary, Year 4
Author:
Boori Monty Pryor
Illustrator:
Jan Ormerod
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Published year:
2010
Teacher Resource
Lee Cataldi
Lee Cataldi was born in Sydney in 1942 to an Anglo-Australian mother and Italian father. She completed a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney in 1962 and then a Bachelor of Letters from Oxford University in 1968. She became a high school …
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Pat Torres
Pat Torres belongs to three Indigenous groups: the Jabirr Jabirr from the north of Broome, the Nyul Nyul from the Beagle Bay area and the Yawuru people from Broome. She is a writer, artist, illustrator, community worker, health worker, educator and …
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Bronwyn Bancroft
Born in Tenterfield, northern New South Wales, Dr Bronwyn Bancroft is a descendant of the Djanbun clan of the Bundjalung nation. Bronwyn is a leading Indigenous artist, illustrator and art administrator whose work is held at the National Gallery of …
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My People: A Kath Walker Collection
Oodgeroo's writing is often a provocative and passionate plea for justice. My People is a collection…
Author:
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Published year:
1970
The White Earth
One spring day in late 1992, when William was halfway between his eighth birthday and his ninth, he …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11
Author:
Andrew McGahan
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Published year:
2005
Teacher Resource
Essay
Swallow the Air
With an introduction from UQP’s First Nations Classics series editor Yasmin Smith, Swallow the Air…
Year:
Secondary, Year 11
Author:
Tara June Winch
Publisher:
UQP
Published year:
2006
Teacher Resource
Essay
Mudrooroo Nyoongah (Colin Johnson)
Born Colin Johnson at Cuballing in Western Australia in 1938, Mudrooroo left Perth for Melbourne in the 1950s. He studied at night while working in the Motor Registration Office and State Library. He wrote Wild Cat Falling (1965), which was welcomed…
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