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Dhuuluu-Yala is a Wiradjuri phrase meaning to talk straight. The history of defining Aboriginality in Australia and the experience of being Aboriginal have both impacted on the production of Aboriginal writing. This title focuses on these twin themes.

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Provides a solid understanding of the key issues around native title from leading thinkers, commentators and senior jurists. It consolidates 16 papers presented to the national Native Title Conference since the historic Mabo judgment. These commentators tie native title to the fundamental issue of the place of Indigenous people.

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(Paperback, Revised edition)

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(Paperback)

Bridging historical scholarship and Aboriginal oral tradition, this innovative book tells the story of the Gugu Badhun people of the Valley of Lagoons in North Queensland. It provides new insights into Aboriginal-European interactions, and new understandings of how Aboriginal people sustained their identities and exercised agency.

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Matutjara woman, Jessie Lennon, was born on a sheep station near Kingoonya in the 1920s. In the 1950s, Jessie and her family were 'caught by the bomb': fallout from the British nuclear tests at Emu, north of Maralinga. In this book, Jessie's stories are juxtaposed with photographs and information of the times, places and people in her life.

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Offers a fresh interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of the twentieth century. Combining the perspectives of political, social and cultural history, the author provides a cogent analysis of how the relationship changed, and the impediments to change.

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Joan Martin was born in the country town of Morawa, Western Australia, in 1941. She was a proud Widi woman whose traditional territory extended from Geraldton eastwards into the salt-lake area. Joan led an exciting and adventurous life, from life in the bush to school in Perth, and back again. This book tells her story.

(Paperback, New)

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Brings together a range of contemporary explorations of Indigenous music and dance in the Torres Strait and the tropical regions of the Northern Territory. This title shows how traditional music and dance have responded to colonial control and to other forces beyond local control. It offers an understanding of the history of Torres Strait music.

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Discusses the water crisis from a unique perspective - the intimate stories of love and loss from the perspectives of Aboriginal people who know the inland rivers as their traditional country. These experiences bring a fresh narrative to contemporary water debates, and how we should look to more sustainable ways to live in Australia.

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In the planned colony of South Australia, Aboriginal people were to be British subjects, held accountable for their actions by English law, but fully entitled to its protection. However, the dreams rapidly soured as British law struggled to protect the settlers' interests and failed to protect Aboriginal lives and birthrights.

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In 2004, Mulrunji Doomadgee's tragic death triggered civil unrest within the Indigenous community of Palm Island. Few Australians know the turbulent history of 'Australia's Alcatraz', a political prison set up to exile Queensland's 'troublesome blacks'. Joanne Watson gives the first substantial history of the island from pre-contact to the present.

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Regarded as one of the great Aboriginal leaders of the modern era, Rob Riley was at the centre of debates that have polarised views on race relations in Australia. Drawing on perspectives from politics and psychology, this title explores Rob's life as a moral protester and the challenges he confronted in trying to change the destiny of a nation.

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Most Australians live on the narrow coastal strip that fringes our island continent. For Aboriginal people a place comes into being each time it is sung. These songs can be for all of us, where Aboriginal stories are overwritten with the grids of roads and towns. One coastal group's experience in maintaining the stories and songs of their country.

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Explores four meanings of the Tagai myth in the life of the Islanders since the mid-nineteenth century. This title examines the social issues involved in the historic Mabo case and to give a picture of the fabric of life of the Mariam people of the Murray Islands, a subgroup of the Torres Strait Islanders.

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(Paperback)

As you look up into the sky at night, you can see many stars. The Wongutha people of the Eastern Goldfields area in Western Australia tell stories about the stars explaining how the stars came to be where they are. Some stars are grouped together and have special names. One of these groups of stars is called the Seven Sisters.

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Tells the story of William Cooper and the Australian Aborigine's League. It reveals their passionate struggle against dispossession and displacement and their fight to be citizens in their own country. Includes the most significant moments in Cooper's political career and the principles he drew on in his campaigning.