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
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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
When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11
Author:
Tara June Winch
Publisher:
UQP
Published year:
2006
Teacher Resource
Essay
Tara June Winch
Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983 and based in France. Her first novel, Swallow the Air was critically acclaimed. She was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and has won numerous literary …
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