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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.
These books introduce children to Indigenous culture and experiences through colourful pictures and powerful storytelling.
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Assistant Professor in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor (Law School), The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in English Literatures, University of Wollongong
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ARC Future Fellow; Professor; Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer and Head of Anthropology, Australian National University
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Director of AustLit, Associate Professor in Digital Cultural Heritage, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Fellow, 'Untapped: the Australian Literary Heritage Project', The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor In Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, Southern Cross University
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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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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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PhD Student, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
