Faculty of Arts and Society

Winner of the University Of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award A deeply personal exploration of Australia's colonisation past, present and future b...

  Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia, but find a place both beautiful and disturbing. There is wilderness, desire and ...

  A joint project with the Indigenous Literary Foundation, Murli la is a beautifully designed gift book that celebrates the culture of the Tiwi Is...

This book is for social work and criminal justice practitioners who wish to develop culturally appropriate and effective programs for reducing ange...

 A new edition of Murri historian and activist Jackie Huggins' seminal Tiddaist classic, featuring timely and compelling speeches and essays.The pi...

A proud Gunai/Kurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie grew up dauntless, full of cheek and a fierce sense of justice. After watching her friends and family s...

Basic Parameters of Yolŋu Law and Governance provides the essentials of Yolŋu governance and the Maḏayin system of law in an attempt to outline nec...

  Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. Set in the desolat...

What does the future hold for First Nations Australians of the Western Desert?In Remote as Ever, David Scrimgeour tells the story of his working li...

  Since the publication of her prize-winning memoir Craft for a Dry Lake, in 2000, writer and artist Kim Mahood has been returning to the Tanami d...

  The moving and personal story of one woman's journey into the remote and rugged Tanami Desert with the matriarchs of her husband's family.

  In this award-winning work Carlson explores the complexities surrounding Aboriginal identity today. Drawing on a range of historical and research...

Why do Aboriginal communities struggle so hard to be heard in mainstream politics? How do remote and urban communities respond to frequent dramatic...

  Providing a startling answer to the questions of how to solve the problems of generational trauma, Trauma Trails moves beyond the rhetoric of vic...

  Aboriginal literature is a growing field with a rapidly expanding global audience. The book represents a range of writers; it includes highly ac...

LIVING ARCHIVE OF ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES

  WINNER OF 2021 NSW PREMIER'S HISTORY AWARDOn this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has ...

  How They Fought reflects the high quality of research and interpretation that is present in Ray Kerkhoves established works. There is no doubt t...

Every Australian's birthright includes the expectation of a healthy and possibly happy life of some longevity, assisted by all the services which a...

We come from the desert is the story of Minyjun (Monty Hale), a senior Ngulipartu man from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Written in his ...

  Lowitja O'Donoghue is a truly great Australian. She is arguably our nation's most recognised Indigenous woman. A powerful and unrelenting advoca...

  Everywhen asks how knowledge systems of Aboriginal people can broaden our understanding of the past and of history. Indigenous ways of knowing, ...