Keen to read and learn more about the background of Indigenous issues in Australia today?
This booklist, created by Helen Carrick for Reconciliation Australia, is designed to inspire knowledge, understanding and empathy regarding Indigenous issues.
Happy reading!
Aird, Michael (1996) I Know a Few Words: Talking about Aboriginal Languages. Southport, QLD: Keeaira Press.
Bird, Carmel (1998) The Stolen Children: Their Stories. Melbourne: Random House.
Brodie, Veronica as told to Mary-Anne Gale (2002) My Side of the Bridge: The Life of Veronica Brodie. South Australia: Wakefield Press.
Chalarimeri, Ambrose Mungala (2004) The Man from Sunrise Side. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Clarke, Banjo as told to Camilla Chance (2003) Wisdom Man. Camberwell, Vic.: Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books.
Clarke, Phillip (2003) Where the Ancestors Walked. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin.
Colman, Mike and Ken Edwards (2002) Eddie Gilbert: The True Story of an Aboriginal Cricketing Legend. Sydney: ABC Books.
Curthoys, Anne (2002) Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin.
Dingo, Sally (2001) Dingo: The Story of Our Mob. Sydney: Random House.
Dowley, Carolyn Wadley (2000) Through Silent Country. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts
Centre Press.
Edwards, Coral (1989) The Lost Children: Thirteen Australians Taken from the Aboriginal Families. Sydney: Doubleday.
Elder, Bruce (2003) Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and Maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788. Frenchs Forest, NSW: New Holland.
Frankland, Richard J. (2007) Digger J. Jones. Sydney: Scholastic Press.
Huggins, Jackie (1998) Sister Girl: The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1997) Bringing them Home: A Guide to the Findings of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Inglis, Kenneth Stanley (2002) The Stuart Case. Melbourne: Black Inc.
Jarman Muir, Aunty Hilda (2004) Very Big Journey: My Life as I Remember it.
Johnson, Diane (2002) Lighting the Way: Reconciliation Stories. Sydney: The Federation Press.
Jordan, Mary Ellen (2005) Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin.
Kartinyeri, Doris E. (2000) Kick the Tin. North Melbourne: Spinifex Press.
Keefe, Kevin (2003) Paddy’s Road: Life Stories of Patrick Dodson. Canberra: AIATSIS.
Lake, Marilyn (2002) Faith: Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin.
Lennon, Jessie (1995) And I Always Been Moving!: The Early Life of Jessie Lennon.
Loos, Noel (1996) Edward Koiki Mabo: His Life and the Struggle for Land Rights. St Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press.
Maushart, Susan (2003) Sort of Place Like Home: Remembering the Moore River Native Settlement. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
Meehan, Donna (2000) It is no Secret - The Story of a Stolen Child. Sydney: Random House.
Mellor, Doreen and Anna Haebich (eds.) (2002) Many Voices: Reflections of Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation. Canberra: National Library of Australia.
Mickler, Steve (1998) The Myth of Privilege: Aboriginal Status, Media Visions, Public Ideas. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
Morgan, Sally (1990) My Place. Pymble, NSW: Angus and Robertson.
Mumshirl (1987) MumShirl: An Autobiography. Richmond, Vic.: Heinemann Educational.
Pedersen, Howard and Banjo Woorunmurra (2000) Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance. Broome, WA: Magabala Books.
Pryor, Boori (Monty) with Meme McDonald (1998) Maybe Tomorrow. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin.
Randall, Bob (2003) Songman: The Story of an Aboriginal Elder of Uluru. Sydney: ABC Books.
Reynolds, Henry (2003) North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia’s North. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin.
Riley, Lin (2002) The Life of Riley. Sydney: Random House.
Sharp, Nonie (1992) Footprints Along the Cape York Sandbeaches. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Sharp, Nonie (2002) Saltwater People: The Waves of Memory. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin.
Taffe, Sue (2005) Black and White Together. St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press.
Tucker, Margaret (1983) If Everyone Cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker. Sydney: Ure Smith.
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