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No footprints in the bush
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Arthur William Upfield |
Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in the outback to investigate the murder of two aborigines and is witness to the murder of a senior police officer, whose car is bombed by a mysterious airplane. |
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Land of the Rainbow Snake
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Catherine Helen Berndt |
Boys turn into fish, a wild woman and her giant dog look for people to eat, and other wonders occur in these twenty-seven traditional stories from the aborigines of western Arnhem Land, in the Northe… |
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Pheasant and kingfisher
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Catherine Helen Berndt |
Two men escape from danger by turning into birds in this aboriginal myth from Australia which explains how the pheasant and kingfisher came into our world. |
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Australian legendary tales
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K. Langloh Parker |
A neighbour of mine exclaimed, when I mentioned that I proposed making a small collection of the folk-lore legends of the tribe of blacks I knew so well living on this station, "But have the blacks a… |
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The Bone Readers
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Claudio Tuniz |
Eminent scientists set the record straight for readers puzzled by the myriad of claims and counterclaims about Australia's prehistory, arguing that many popular theories are based on misinterpretatio… |
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Transgressions
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Mark Hannah,Ingereth Macfarlane |
"This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. It has its origins in 2003 when Mark Hannah, then a doctoral st… |
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Seeing the first Australians
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Tamsin Donaldson,Ian Donaldson |
First sight / Ian Donaldson & Tamsin Donaldson -- The first European depictions / Bernard Smith -- Reactions on Cook's voyage / Glyndwr Williams -- Savage sportsmen / James Urry -- The Darwinian pers… |
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Distant serenade
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Michael McLean |
An aborigine tale of outback Australia, accompanied by piano vocal score for the songs that the story inspired. |
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Sun Mother wakes the world
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Diane Wolkstein |
An Aboriginal creation story in which the Sun slowly brings life to the Earth. |
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Encountering Aboriginal languages
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William McGregor |
This edited volume represents the first book-length study of the history of research on Australian Aboriginal languages, and collects together 18 original papers on a wide variety of topics, spanning… |
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The Moving frontier
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Peter Stanbury |
Papers by J.P. White, J. Woolmington, D.F. Branagan, A.M. McArthur, A.M. Moyle, A. Capell, T.J. Widders, D.C. Biernoff, M. Dallas, J.L. Clegg, B. Semler, L.J. Kramer and H.F.M. Creamer, separately an… |
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Les chats du parc Yengo
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Louise Simard |
Claude débarque en Australie pour faire un stage d'un mois dans une clinique vétérinaire de la petite ville de Windsor. Au cours d'une tournée dans le bush, avec un garde forestier, elle découvre ave… |
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Everything you need to know about the referendum to recognise indigenous Australians
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Megan Davis |
This book explains everything that Australians need to know about the proposal to recognise Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution. It details how our Constitution was drafted, and shows how Aborigin… |
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Darkness under the hills
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William Neville Scott |
Boori, a young aboriginal warrior and magician, takes his companion Jaree and the spirit dog Dingo with him to confront the evil spirit that threatens his people. |
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Jimmy and Pat meet the Queen
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Pat Lowe |
Artist Jimmy Pike, a Walmajarri man, together with his wife Pat Lowe, decides to challenge the Queen's ownership of his traditional land in the Great Sandy Desert. Pat writes to the Queen, inviting h… |
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Forgotten footprints
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Rosemary Hayes |
A story that captures the reality and dangers of early exploration, and of the clash of cultures as Europeans first met Australia's Aboriginal habitats-seen through the eyes of two young people. |
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Edge of empire
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Jane Jacobs |
Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in four contemporary first world cities: two sites in London and two sites in the Australian cities of Perth and Brisbane. Through these examples th… |
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Going for oysters
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Jeanie Adams |
An Australian aborigine family spends the weekend fishing and looking for oysters and they almost forget their grandfather's warning about the dangers of the eastern swamp. |
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The legend of the seven sisters
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May L. O'Brien |
Retells the story of why the group of stars the Seven Sisters appear in their position in the night sky. |
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Faith
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Marilyn Lake |
The life and times of the extraordinary Faith Bandler by Australia's foremost women's historian.Faith Bandler is one of Australia's best-loved and most widely respected citizens.This is the story of … |
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