‘The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People’, Flood, J. 2006. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest
As the title suggests this is a one stop book telling the recent and beginning story for the aboriginal people in Australia.
A Hard Place. Stevens, B. 2017. New Holland Publishers, Sydney
Discussion on street gangs and the socio-economic impact of their actions and factors contributing to the increase in prevalence of such gangs both in Australia and abroad.
Songlines and Faultlines
Absolute crap. Less about the trails and more about the failings of those historical figures (non-indigenous) who trod the trails in the distant past.
38 degrees South, Australia Felix. Hedditch, K. 2009.Program Print, Hamilton, Victoria
Covers the transformation of Victoria following European settlement and the influence on water resources, aboriginal peoples and culture, forests the lot
‘Native Plants of Northern Australia’. Brock, J. 2001, Reed New Holland
For those interested in learning about the more obvious plants found in the top end this is a great book.
‘The Killing Times: The Coniston Massacre 1928’, Cribbin, J. 1984, Fontana Books, Sydney
A case study of a massacre of at least 33 Aboriginal people in Central Australia in 1928
‘Aboriginal Darwin’, Bauman, T. 2006. Aboriginal Studies Press
Excellent book for a self-guided cultural tour around the Darwin area.
‘Kakadu People’, Spencer, B. 2008, David M. Welch, Virginia
This includes the notes, pics and thoughts of Sir Baldwin Spencer who was the first Government Protector of Aboriginal people in the NT in the early part of the 1900’s
The Last Roundup’, Baldwin, T & K. 2000, Buffame, Darwin
Written by the builders and founders of the Bark Hut Inn on the Arnhem highway it looks at life in the top end in the 70’s and 80’s and the interaction of Aboriginal and non-aboriginal persons and working relationships.
‘Bunji-A Story of the Gwalwa Daraniki Movement’, Day, B. 1994
Looks at the lands rights battle in and around the Darwin area in the 1970’s