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dispossession

Burial Rites

In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Hannah Kent Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Published year: 2014

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Don’t Take Your Love to Town

A seminal work of Indigenous memoir. Ruby Langford Ginibi’s remarkable talent for storytelling …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Ruby Langford Ginibi Publisher: UQP Published year: 1988

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Heat and Light

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

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Ellen van Neerven Publisher: UQP Published year: 2014

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Inside My Mother

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

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Ali Cobby Eckermann Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Published year: 2015

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Maralinga, the Anangu Story

An extraordinary illustrated history told from the Indigenous perspective and created through a …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Yalata and Oak Valley Communities, Christobel Mattingley Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2009

Sorry Day

Maggie and her mother await the long anticipated apology to the Stolen Generations. In the crowd …

Year: Primary, Year 6 Author: Coral Vass Illustrator: Dub Leffler Publisher: National Library of Australia Published year: 2018

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The Drover’s Wife

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

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Leah Purcell Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 2017

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The Garret: Alex Miller

Reading Australia presents this Alex Miller podcast, with permission from The Garret Podcast…

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Alex Miller Publisher: The Garret Published year: 2018

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The Garret: Alexis Wright

Reading Australia presents this Alexis Wright podcast, with permission from The Garret Podcast…

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Alexis Wright Publisher: The Garret Published year: 2018

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The Garret: Finding Eliza

Larissa Behrendt, a Eualeyai and Kamillaroi woman, is a writer, lawyer and academic. This …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Larissa Behrendt Publisher: The Garret Published year: 2020

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