Oodgeroo’s debut collection We Are Going was the first ever book of poetry published by an Aboriginal person.
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Can we recommend replacement books for Thomas King on Indigenous reading lists? No, but we can recommend some of the many Indigenous authors whose brilliant work unsettles and expands literary study.
Indigenous people are more than stories. We deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, and accountability is measured by actions that build trust and repair harm.
The Rot is haunted by complicity, and haunting in its insistence on remembering every betrayal.
In their new collections, Jazz Money and Elfie Shiosaki tackle pressing themes of time, respect and resistance.
Encouraging men to take the risk of expressing tender feelings for others is part of relying on love as a tool of anti-racist and decolonial education.
The owner of Robinsons Bookshop has listed several kinds of books ‘missing’ from its shelves, including ‘kids picture books with just white kids on the cover’.
Melissa Lucashenko’s latest novel is an epic, affirming pathways for Indigenous futures – and she gifts us with characters impossible not to invest in.
Researchers from an Indigenous literatures lab examine texts that are well-suited for a new Grade 11 course, First Voices.
Ali Cobby Eckermann’s first book since winning the Windham Campbell Prize may well prove her most enduring.
Alexis Wright’s latest novel is an elegy and an ode to Aboriginal law and sovereignty: innovative, visionary, and volcanic in its rage.
Crime fiction’s place-specific exploration of justice seems ideally suited to Indigenous authors wanting to explore historical and contemporary issues.
For Indigenous literature courses to be successful, Indigenous cultural safety must be centred, and commitment to teacher professional development is a must.
These two new romances starring bold, culturally connected heroines from Redfern and Western Sydney break the genre mould – but remain faithful to what readers love about romance.
What do popular ‘settler’ Australian stories like The Castle and Trent Dalton’s books say about who we are? What do they evade? Jeanine Leane investigates the state of post-Mabo Australian literature.
Noongar author Claire Coleman’s new novel forces us to question what we value and how we live by combining dystopia and utopia, in a near-future very like our own.
What might our future look like? Together, these speculative fiction stories offer a First Nations response to this burning question.
Stories about alternative worlds can be a powerful way of critiquing the problems of our own world.
Many important Australian books have found themselves out-of-print and hard-to-find. The Untapped project aims to change that, bringing classics to a library near you.
Non-Indigenous writers, if they wish to engage ethically with Indigenous culture, must learn to respect it as a form of property grounded in kinship and country.
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Associate Professor in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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PhD Candidate, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Lecturer; program convenor master of writing, editing, and publishing, The University of Queensland
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ARC Future Fellow; Professor; Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor In Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Sessional Academic, Children's Literature and Creative Writing, Victoria University
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University of Toronto
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PhD Candidate, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Critical Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer and Head of Anthropology, Australian National University