LIBRARY HOT TOPICS ABORIGINAL HISTORY AND IDENTITY

The biggest estate on earth: how Dark emu: black seeds: Aborigines made Australia by Bill agriculture or accident? by Gammage. Crows Nest, NSW: Bruce Pascoe. [Tullamarine, Allen & Unwin, 2012. 305.89 GAM Victoria]: Bolinda Audio, [2017] CD 305.89 PAS “Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land Audiobook. Read by the author. 5 discs. looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands Growing up Aboriginal in and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Australia edited by Anita Heiss. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and Carlton, Vic: Schwartz Publishing, scientific fashion than we have ever realised.” – Back cover. 2018. 305.89 GRO

Constitutional recognition: First “Accounts from well-known authors and high- Peoples and the Australian settler profile identities sit alongside those from newly discovered writers of all ages. All of the state by Dylan Lino; foreword, contributors speak from the heart – Professor Megan Davis. Annandale, sometimes calling for empathy, oftentimes challenging NSW: The Federation Press, 2018. stereotypes, always demanding respect. This groundbreaking 305.89 LIN collection will enlighten, inspire and educate about the lives of Aboriginal people in Australia today.” – Publisher website. “With First Peoples continuing to press for the recognition of their sovereignty and peoplehood, this book will Hidden in plain view: the be a definitive reference point for scholars, advocates, policy- Aboriginal people of coastal makers and the interested public. Dr Dylan Lino, Constitutional Sydney by Paul Irish. Sydney: recognition of Australia's Indigenous People: law, history and NewSouth Publishing, 2017. politics (original title), was the winner of the Holt Prize 2017.” – Publisher. 305.89 IRI

Dancing with strangers by Inga “Aboriginal people are prominent in accounts of early colonial Sydney, yet we seem to skip Clendinnen. Melbourne: Text a century as they disappear from the historical record, re- Publishing, 2017. 305.89 CLE emerging early in the twentieth – a time when they were assumed to be from somewhere else. What happened to “Dancing with strangers is Inga Clendinnen's Sydney’s Aboriginal people between the devastating impact of seminal account of the moment in January white settlement and increased government intervention a 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney century later?” – Back cover. Harbour and a thousand British men and women encountered the Australians living Indigenous Australia for there. 'These people mixed with ours,' wrote a British observer dummies by Larissa Behrendt. after landfall, 'and all hands danced together.” – Back cover. Richmond, Vic: John Wiley & Dark emu: Aboriginal Australia Sons, 2012. 305.89 BEH and the birth of agriculture by “What is The Dreaming? How many Bruce Pascoe. New edition. different Indigenous tribes and languages Broome, WA: Magabala Books, once existed in Australia? What effect do 2018. 305.89 PAS the events of the past have on Indigenous peoples today? [This book] answers these questions and countless others “Pascoe puts forward a compelling argument about the oldest race on Earth.” – Back cover. for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing – behaviours inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag.” – Back cover.

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Aboriginal history and identity The little red yellow black book: Welcome to country: a travel an introduction to Indigenous guide to Indigenous Australia by Australia by AIATSIS with Bruce Marcia Langton with Nina Pascoe. 4th ed. Canberra: Aboriginal Fitzgerald & Amba-Rose Atkinson; Studies Press, 2018. 305.89 PAS foreword by Stan Grant. Richmond, Vic: Hardie Grant “The little red yellow black book is for readers of all backgrounds and provides an Travel, 2018. 305.89 LAN opportunity to discover more about the diverse, dynamic and "Marcia Langton: welcome to country is a curated guidebook to continuing cultures of Australia’s First Peoples.” – Publisher. Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. In its pages, It's our country: Indigenous author Professor Marcia Langton offers fascinating insights into Indigenous languages and customs, history, native title, art arguments for meaningful and dance, storytelling, and cultural awareness and etiquette constitutional recognition and for visitors. There is also a directory of Indigenous tourism reform edited by Megan Davis & experiences, organised by state or territory, covering galleries Marcia Langton. Carlton, Vic: and festivals, national parks and museums, communities that are open to visitors, as well as tours and performances." – Melbourne University Press, 2016. Back cover. 305.89 ITS

“The idea of constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has become a highly political and contentious issue. It is entangled in institutional processes that rarely allow the diversity of Indigenous opinion to be expressed. With a referendum on the agenda, it is now urgent that Indigenous people have a direct say in the form of recognition that constitutional change might achieve … [This] collection of essays … explores what recognition and constitutional reform might achieve – or not achieve – for Indigenous people.” – Back cover.

Radical heart: three stories make us one by Shireen Morris. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Publishing, 2018. 305.89 MOR

“Neither Indigenous nor white, Shireen Morris is both outside observer and inside player in the fight for Indigenous rights. Framed by her family's Indian and Fijian migrant story, Morris gives a personal perspective on what many consider the greatest moral challenge of our nation: constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians.” – Publisher.

Serious whitefella stuff: when solutions became the problem in Indigenous affairs by Mark Moran, [Alyson Wright & Paul Memmott]. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 2016. 305.89 MOR

“How does Indigenous policy signed off in Canberra work – or not – when implemented in remote Aboriginal communities? Mark Moran, Alyson Wright and Paul Memmott have extensive on-the-ground experience in this area of ongoing challenge. What, they ask, is the right balance between respecting local traditions and making significant improvement in the areas of alcohol consumption, home ownership and revitalising cultural practices?” – Back cover.

Talking to my country by Stan Grant. Sydney: HarperCollins, 2016. 305.89 GRA

“Stan Grant’s very personal meditation on race, identity and history. It is that rare and special book that talks to every Australian about their country – what it is, and what it could be. Direct, honest and forthright, Stan is talking to us all. He might not have all the answers but he wants us to keep on asking the questions: is this the country that we want to have? And how can we be better?” – Book jacket. RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR LOAN FROM THE LIBRARY Updated February 2019 POSTAL SERVICE AVAILABLE