Country of the Heart
An Australian Indigenous Homeland

Deborah Bird Rose, Sharon D’Amico, Nancy Daiyi, Kathy Deveraux, Margaret Daiyi, Linda Ford, April Bright

RRP $44.95 incl. GST

Country of the Heart provides an introduction to the connections between Aboriginal people and the land that has sustained and nurtured them for generations.

Through the wonderful photographic images and the stories of the MakMak clan women (white-breasted sea eagle), readers are led into the heart of country: the people, the animals, the plants, the ancestors, the seasons – and the intimate relationships which tie them together.

Recently launched at Mary Who? Bookshop in Townsville

Indifferent Inclusions
Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation

Russell McGregor

RRP $39.95 incl. GST

Russell McGregor is one of the foremost scholars in the field of Aboriginal history. The very title of the book breaks new ground because of the questions implicit in its approach…his perspective is genuinely fresh and insightful. — Historian Mark McKenna

Read an extract from the launch by Professor Sandra Harding, Vice Chancellor, James Cook University

Famous footballer Pele receives a copy of Australia

William Blandowski’s illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia

Mr Foster, who is a journalist for SBS, met with the famous Brazilian soccer player as part of plans to establish a training program for young Indigenous soccer players.

Cleared Out + Contact DVD

Special price of RRP $59.95

'Contact’ could be the most profoundly moving film this country has ever made…a movie-going experience I will never forget. — Simon Foster, SBS

This is a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to read and see a first contact encounter in Australia. DVD includes film footage of the 1964 contact with Yuwali's group.

Recently launched at the ANU co-op bookshop, Canberra

Belonging Together
Dealing with the politics of disenchantment in Australian Indigenous Policy

Patrick Sullivan

RRP $39.95 incl. GST

Belonging Together provides a unique overview of the trajectory of current Indigenous policy, with Sullivan advancing a new consolidated approach to Indigenous policy which moves beyond the debate over self-determination and assimilation. Instead, he suggests that the interests of Indigenous peoples, settlers and immigrants are fundamentally shared, and proposes adaptation on both sides, but particularly for the descendants of settlers and immigrants, to allow them to embrace the framing of their identity by and Indigenous presence.

The Little Red Yellow Black Book and website

Bruce Pascoe with AIATSIS

RRP $14.95

Shortlisted — Educational Publishing Award

There is so much to know and learn about Indigenous Australia. But for someone who wants to get to grips with the whole story, where do you start? Right here, with The Little Red Yellow Black Book. — Vibe Australia, November 2008