Content tagged with Writers
A M Fernando Notebooks
Exhibition - 9 Feb 2015
Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia
Summary In Writing never arrives naked, Penny van Toorn engages our minds and hearts. Her academically innovative book reveals the resourceful and...
Publication or resource - 29 Jan 2015
Born of the Conquerers: Selected essays by Judith Wright
Summary One of Australia's best known poets, Judith Wright, brings together for the first time a selection of twenty-one essays. Her messages...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Black Mary and Gunjies: Two plays by Julie Janson
Summary An introduction to Black Mary and Gungies, both plays written by award-winning Aboriginal playwright, Julie Janson, provides interesting...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Auntie Rita
Summary 'Most people call me Auntie Rita, whites as well as Aboriginal people. Auntie is a term of respect of our older women folk. You don't have...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
The road to Australia: Memoirs of Vladimir Kabo
Summary Russian ethnographer Vladimir Kabo's passion for more than 30 years has been the study of Australia's Indigenous people. Continually...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Dhuuluu-Yala: To talk straight
Summary Dhuuluu-Yala is a Wiradjuri phrase meaning ‘to talk straight’ and this book is straight talk about publishing Indigenous literature in...
Publication or resource - 19 Jan 2015
The Legend of the Seven Sisters: A traditional Aboriginal story from Western Australia
Summary In this wonderful retelling of a Dreaming story of the Wongutha people from the Eastern goldfields, Aboriginal author May O'Brien ...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia
Summary In Writing never arrives naked, Penny van Toorn engages our minds and hearts. Her academically innovative book reveals the resourceful and...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Bangu the Flying Fox: A Dreamtime story of the Yuin people of Wallaga Lake
Summary A traditional Dreaming story from the Yuin people of Wallaga Lake, Bangu explores the importance of belonging and identification. Simply...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Bittangabee Tribe: An Aboriginal story from Coastal New South Wales
Summary Written by Aboriginal students at Bega TAFE, and illustrated by Aboriginal children from Eden Public School, this delightful book tells...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
The Rain Flower
Summary The Rain Flower is an adventure story about the journey of the night creatures and the day creatures to find a rain flower that will...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
Back on The Block: Bill Simon’s Story
Summary Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon’s was not a normal childhood. He was told his mother didn’t...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014