Faculty of Arts and Society

Winner of the 2014 Victorian Premier's Award for non-fiction! Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. Why are t...

In his youth, Waipuldanya was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to live off the land, to provide for his family with the aid only of his spear...

  The Handbook of Critical Methodologies covers everything from the history of critical and indigenous theory and how it came to inform and impact...

A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution in the distant south. There, she slowly makes a new life fo...

Extending deep into the caverns of humanity's oldest memories, beyond 60,000 years of history and into the Dreamtime, this collection of Australian...

In the 1840s, white settlement in the north was under attack. European settlers were in awe of Aboriginal physical fitness and fighting prowess, an...

"'Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent ...your dilemma is not whether the kids are innocent, but which of the kids are innocent.' Wh...

This volume traces the complex reasons behind the disturbing discrepancy between the health and well-being of children in mainstream Australia and ...

Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Wh...

THE STORY OF ABORIGINAL COUNTRY MUSIC Aboriginal people and country music may seem like an unlikely pairing, but for a significant part of the 20th...

AN ANTHOLOGY One of the most invasive, puzzling and unprecedented actions by a government in Australian history – the 2007 NT Intervention by the H...

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

A luminous collection of essays on art, obsession and creativity from one of Australia's best critics Why do we revere the figure of the artist? Is...

The five steps to successful selling, negotiating, and managing multi-culturally Say Anything to Anyone, Anywhere gives readers five simple key gui...

Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media The Visual Story teaches you how to manipulate components such as space, line and shap...

  Learning the art of mixing has never been easier. For more than two decades, The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook has been the best selling and most re...

  65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art stares into the dark heart of Australia's brutal colonial history and offers new insights into th...

EIGHT PLAYS

Acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of artistic Modernism, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the moder...

'It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting' …..so wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. While the life journe...

  The job of a journalist has changed dramatically over the past few decades with satellite links, 24 hour rolling news, and the Internet creating ...