Faculty of Arts and Society

       In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas Mayo ...

  What Good Condition? collects edited papers, initially delivered at the Treaty Advancing Reconciliation conference, on the proposal for a treaty...

Australia is home to many distinctive species of birds, and Aboriginal peoples have developed close alliances with them over the millennia of their...

 A ground-breaking work - and a call to arms - that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people. In this collection ...

 WINNER OF THE 2011 WALKLEY BOOK AWARD Award-winning journalist Russell Skelton presents a devastatingly revealing portrait of Papunya, a Western D...

 Tired of going around in circles? The Dreaming Path has always been there, but in the modern-day world, it can be hard to find. There are so many...

Drysdale River National Park is a remote wilderness area of rugged natural bushland, well-watered by numerous creeks and the permanent waters of th...

Matt Garrick is an award-winning writer and ABC News journalist based in Darwin. Formerly features editor at the NT News, he has lived in East Arnh...

This is the story of one of Australia's first true heroes, Pemulwuy. A proud and feared Aboriginal warrior, Pemulwuy leads an uncompromising twelve...

Living on Stolen Land is a prose-styled look at our colonial-settler ‘present’. This book is the first of its kind to address and educate a broad a...

WANGGA SONGMEN AND THEIR REPERTORIES  

From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term 'indigenous stor...

Author Bagele Chilisa updates her groundbreaking book to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologie...

‘How can you make decisions about Aboriginal people when you can’t even talk to the people you’ve got here that are blackfellas?’ So ‘Sarah’, a sen...

INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS, WAR, DEFENCE AND CITIZENSHIP After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal...

AN INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN HOMELAND Country of the Heart provides an introduction to the connections between Aboriginal people and the land that has...

The history of Australia has been written before - but not like this. In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new ve...

Miles Franklin-award winner Melissa Lucashenko's searing essays and journalism published together for the first time. 'For thousands of years, glob...

SHORTLISTED, Baillie Gifford Prize, United Kingdom, 2025 Helen Garner's acclaimed three volumes of diaries are collected here in one sumptuous book...

How six extraordinary women artists of the twentieth century reframed the narrative through their art and lives. When a woman makes art, what does ...

For the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in...

The story of the most audacious serial heist in the history of Australia's museums - and the British gentleman adventurer who pulled it off and got...

A new, radically updated edition of the immensely successful introductory textbook on world prehistory.