Rivers and Resilience
Title | Rivers and Resilience PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Goodall |
Publisher | UNSW Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1921410744 |
We started swimming in the Georges River at Liverpool. We were river girls! It was our little stamping ground. - Judy Chester Rivers and Resilience traces the history of Aboriginal people along Sydney's Georges River from the early periods of white settlement to the present. Telling the stories of the river people, it offers insights into Aboriginal history in an urban setting. For centuries Aboriginal people lived along the Georges River. With colonisation, the river's geography forced settlers to leapfrog over its rugged and swampy bends in search of arable land. Aboriginal people retained a hold over some of the land and maintained communities - despite changes caused by the city's growth. Two leading historians investigate Aboriginal communities in this densely settled, but often overlooked, suburban area.
How to write what you want to say … in the primary years
Title | How to write what you want to say … in the primary years PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Hipwell |
Publisher | Boolarong Press |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2014-09-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1925046486 |
Young writers who struggle with putting their ideas into writing need language to help them. This book provides that language in the form of sentence starters and connectives. It also provides graphic organisers to help young writers organise their thoughts - a process necessary for good writing. How to write what you want to say… in the primary years: a guide for primary students who know what they want to say but can’t find the words provides parents, teachers and young writers with a tool for improving writing. It is suitable for Years 2 to 6.
Australian Aboriginal Culture
Title | Australian Aboriginal Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Crawford |
Publisher | R.I.C. Publications |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | 1863118098 |
One of a four-book series, this book has been written to assist teachers and students in all schools to explore Australian Aboriginal culture.
Legacies of Indigenous Resistance
Title | Legacies of Indigenous Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | Matteo Dutto |
Publisher | Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Aboriginal Australians in literature |
ISBN | 9781788745413 |
This book explores the ways in which Australian Indigenous filmmakers, performers and writers work within their Indigenous communities to tell the stories of early Indigenous resistance leaders who fought against British invaders and settlers, thus keeping their legacies alive and connected to community in the present. It offers the first comprehensive and trans-disciplinary analysis of how the stories of Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan (Bidjigal, Bunuba and Noongar freedom fighters, respectively) have been retold in the past forty years across different media. Combining textual and historical analysis with original interviews with Indigenous cultural producers, it foregrounds the multimodal nature of Indigenous storytelling and the dynamic relationship of these stories to reclamations of sovereignty in the present. It adds a significant new chapter to the study of Indigenous history-making as political action, while modelling a new approach to stories of frontier resistance leaders and providing a greater understanding of how the decolonizing power of Indigenous screen, stage and text production connects past, present and future acts of resistance.
A Letter To My Children
Title | A Letter To My Children PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Pyne |
Publisher | Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2015-08-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0522867995 |
Why do seemingly intelligent men and women leave their families to spend more than half the year travelling to Canberra, and spending night after night at electorate and campaign events? Surely there are easier ways to earn a living. A Letter to My Children is Christopher Pyne's honest account of how a belief in the power of public service, inspired by his crusading ophthalmologist father, led him to pursue a career in politics, driven by the ambition of leaving a legacy for the next generation.
Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development
Title | Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development PDF eBook |
Author | Cheryl Kickett-Tucker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2016-10-24 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107414474 |
Written from an Aboriginal perspective, Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development is a valuable resource that focuses on cultural security.
First Australians
Title | First Australians PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Perkins |
Publisher | The Miegunyah Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0522859542 |
First Australians is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was overrun by the world's greatest empire. Seven of Australia's leading historians reveal the true stories of individuals—both black and white—caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period of history. Their story begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1992 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia. By illuminating a handful of extraordinary lives spanning two centuries, First Australians reveals, through their eyes, the events that shaped a new nation. Note: This is the unillustrated version ofFirst Australians.