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Books by Indigenous creators

Free Diving

A poignant tribute to the Aboriginal men and women who worked in the pearling industry as ‘free …

Year: Primary, Year 5 Author: Lorrae Coffin Illustrator: Bronwyn Houston Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2017

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Collection of poems in English with translations into Putonghua (modern standard Chinese) on Chinese…

Author: Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) Publisher: Jacaranda Press Published year: 1988

Essay

This moving bush ballad about the country’s vast interior captures the Australian outback in all …

Author: Annaliese Porter Illustrator: Bronwyn Bancroft Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2005

The Little Corroborree Frog gently introduces the serious plight of one of Australia’s most …

Year: Primary, Year 1 Author: Tracey Holton-Ramirez Illustrator: Angela Ramirez Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2013

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Alfred’s War is a powerful story that unmasks the lack of recognition given to Australian …

Year: Primary, Year 6 Author: Rachel Bin Salleh Illustrator: Samantha Fry Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2018

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Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of …

Author: Larissa Behrendt Publisher: UQP Published year: 2016

Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past, written by the …

Author: Leah Purcell Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 2016

These poems pulse with the language and images of a mangrove-lined river city, the beckoning highway…

Author: Samuel Wagan Watson Publisher: UQP Published year: 2004

In her memoir Too Afraid to Cry, published in 2013, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann related how …

Author: Ali Cobby Eckermann Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Published year: 2015

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

Author: Ellen van Neerven Publisher: UQP Published year: 2014