Joe Tramacchi was born in Gympie, Queensland. He was named after his mother's favourite uncle and grandfathers who came to Australia from Italy, in 1882 to work as charcoal burners and gold miners. Joe is the eldest of six children. After finishing …
View Books by Joe TramacchiBorn in Broome in 1948 to a Bardi Aboriginal mother with Scottish heritage and a Broome born father whose parents were Chinese and Japanese, Jimmy Chi embodies his hometown's cultural diversity. Although he left Broome to undertake an engineering …
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Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from south-west New South Wales. Her first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming: A.D. 1887–1961 won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry, and her first novel, Purple Threads, won …
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Dr Jared Thomas is a Nukunu person of the Southern Flinders Ranges, William and Margaret Geary Research Fellow, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Material Culture and Art at the South Australian Museum and the University of South Australia, and …
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The true story of the Aboriginal resistance fighter, Jandamarra, whose legend is etched into the …
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The epic and tragic story of Jandamarra, Indigenous hero of the Kimberley told through text and …
Jackie Huggins, a member of the Pitjara/Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru people, is the Deputy Director, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit at the University of Queensland. In popular demand as a speaker on Aboriginal issues, she is a well-known …
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Jack Manning Bancroft is the CEO and Founder of AIME. In 2005, as a then 19-year-old uni student, Jack founded the AIME Program with 25 Indigenous kids in Redfern. AIME incorporated in 2008 and Jack became a CEO at the age of 22. Jack is now one …
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In her memoir Too Afraid to Cry, published in 2013, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann related how …
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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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