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Indigenous culture

Too Much Lip

Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things – her hometown and prison…

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Melissa Lucashenko Publisher: UQP Published year: 2018

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The Garret: Too Much Lip

Melissa Lucashenko is a multi-award winning Goorie writer. Her novel Too Much Lip received the …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Melissa Lucashenko Publisher: The Garret Published year: 2020

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Cunning Crow

Way back, before once-upon-a-time, there was the Dreamtime when all the birds were white. One of …

Year: Primary, Year 1 Author: Gregg Dreise Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2019

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Young Dark Emu

Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought …

Year: Primary, Year 6 Author: Bruce Pascoe Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2019

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Desert Lake

It's raining up north and soon everything will change for the desert lake. The dry salt bed of Kati…

Year: Primary, Year 5 Author: Pamela Freeman Illustrator: Liz Anelli Publisher: Walker Books Published year: 2016

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Kath Walker in China

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

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) Publisher: Jacaranda Press Published year: 1988

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The ABC Book of Australian Poetry

'I am the river, gently flowing, as I wind my way to the sea.' (Mary Duroux) Follow the river of …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Libby Hathorn Illustrator: Cassandra Allen Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Published year: 2010

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The Rabbits

A rich and haunting allegory for all ages, all cultures. 'The rabbits came many grandparents ago…

Year: Secondary, Year 8 Author: John Marsden Illustrator: Shaun Tan Publisher: Hachette Australia Published year: 2008

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The Garret: Anita Heiss

Dr Anita Heiss writes non-fiction, commercial women's fiction, children's literature and poetry. …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Anita Heiss Publisher: The Garret Published year: 2017

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Us Mob Walawurru

Central Australia, 1960s ... Ruby lives on a cattle station and goes to the ‘silver bullet' school…

Year: Secondary, Year 8 Author: Lisa Wilyuka, David Spillman Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2006

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