Who Owns Story?

Copyright issues for Indigenous stories

An excerpt of a paper by Terri Janke presented at Sydney Writers Festival 2010.

The right to tell stories and to link into that history, to that land, and that connection is an Indigenous cultural right...Copyright is a 300-year-old concept. It originated in Europe...In Australia, under the Commonwealth Copyright Act 1968, copyright is a bundle of rights given to authors to control the use of their literary works. This includes the right to sell the work, to publish it, to put it on the internet, and the right to adapt it...[S]ince 2000, moral rights have been added to the bundle. Read more...

New Publication

Singing the Coast
Margaret Somerville and Tony Perkins

RRP $34.95

Singing the Coast is one of the most beautiful and important books to enter our world in recent time... Read, enjoy, and find yourself ambushed by its subtly transformative power — Deborah Bird Ros

Singing the Coast has opened up part of the NSW coastline through language and stories both traditional and contemporary, that are lived but have been, until now, largely unspoken — Gary Foley

Cleared Out + Contact DVD

Special book + DVD 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.

Listen to an interview with the Author

Murray River Country
An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners

Jessica Weir

RRP $34.95

Weir’s originality is innovative and inspirational. She captures the MRC Indigenous people’s holistic approach in reading the ecological statements of managing water and the benefits of this for everyone and the MRC’s ecology. — Dr Payi-Linda Ford

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