Faculty of Arts and Society

If governments of Australia agreed to share power with Aboriginal people, what would the result be? And if Australia was to have a settlement or a ...

The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in the contemporary Australian scene of race, specifically the subjectivity of vision and the t...

An introduction to the vast world of traditional Aboriginal art: rock engravings, cave and bark paintings, decorative and symbolic designs both sac...

This map is a perfect take-home product for tourists and anyone interested in the diversity of Australia's First Nations peoples. Aboriginal and To...

  First Nations Australians are some of the oldest innovators in the world. Original developments in social and religious activities, trading stra...

  The phone rang unexpectedly, late one night. 'Guess who our white ancestors were?' chuckled Uncle Gerry. 'They were slave traders! A couple of g...

  A personal account of how copyright protects Indigenous artThere is the country non-Indigenous people can see, and then there is the country Ind...

Why should Indigenous people have a direct say in the decisions that affect their lives? Australia is one of the only liberal democracies still gra...

Nonie Sharp has worked with northern Australia's indigenous coastal peoples for nearly 25 years. After obtaining her PhD in 1985, she taught sociol...

  Australia's language diversity is truly breathtaking. This continent lays claim to the world's longest continuous collection of cultures, includ...

  The award-winning author of Sand Talk returns with a formidably original yarn with Indigenous thought leaders from around the globe.Sand Talk, Ty...

The real challenge for black-white relations in Australia Deep in our hearts, Australians know that our nation was built on land that does not belo...

  This little book contains a great glossary of the meanings of a range of aboriginal words.

  Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history.

Matutjara woman, Jessie Lennon, was born on a sheep station near Kingoonya in the 1920s. Aged six, she accompanied her father on a ceremonial journ...

  Approximately 1300 ethnographic field recordings of Tiwi songs, made between 1912 and 1981, are archived at the Australian Institute of Aborigin...

  The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians an...

Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than...

The Australian Aboriginal, written in 1925, describes the ceremonial and day to day lives of traditional Aboriginal people, as witnessed by Herbert...

What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts to showcase as many dive...

  Through compelling examples, case studies, and exercises, Social Work Practice and Social Justice goes beyond a discussion of abstract social jus...

  The Australian nation has reached an impasse in Indigenous policy and practice and fresh strategies and perspectives are required. Trapped by His...