Education as a tool for change

Your welcome! Thanks to my deadly colleague Erica Schurmann for the share via Rebecca Sparrow blog. Education is one of the most powerful tools we have, so here are a few Indigenous Australian authors to be inspired by:

Picture Books

• Little Bird's Day - Sally Morgan; illus. Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr
• Respect - Aunty Fay Muir; Sue Lawson; illus. Lisa Kennedy
• Family - Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson; illus. Jasmine Seymour (Coming in July)
• Cooee Mittigar: A Story on Darug Songlines - Jasmine Seymour; illus. Leanne Mulgo Watson
• Wilam: A Birrarung Story - Aunty Joy Murphy; Andrew Kelly; illus. Lisa Kennedy
• Mum's Elephant - Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O'Keefe; illus. Christina Booth
• Baby Business - Jasmine Seymour
• No Way Yirrikipayi! - written and illustrated by students from Melville Island with Alison Lester.
• I Saw, We Saw (Djamarrkuli'wu Yolgnumurru Dh?ruk) - by Yolgnu students at Nhulunbuy Primary School
• Coming Home to Country - Bronwyn Bancroft
• Our Home, Our Country - Adam Briggs
• My Culture and Me - Gregg Driese
• Tell em! - Katrina Germein; R. Sullivan; illus. Karen Briggs

Junior Reads

• Sister Heart - Sally Morgan (author of My Place) - suitable for 10+
• Finding our Heart: A Book about the Uluru statement for Young Australians - Thomas Mayor
• Young Dark Emu: A Truer History - Bruce Pascoe
• Wombat, Mudlark and Other Stories - Helen Milroy
• My Place for Younger Readers - Sally Morgan
• Who Am I - My Australian Story - Anita Heiss
• My Australian Story: Our Race for Reconciliation - Anita Heiss
• My Girragundji - Meme McDonald; Boori Monty Pryor
• Nginingawila Ngirramini - Tiwi College Tiwi College Alalinguwi Jarrar
• Black Cockatoo - Carl Merrison; Hakea Hustl
• Shallow in the Deep End - Tiwi College Al Alalinguwi Jarrakarlinga

Young Adult Reads

• Shauna's Great Expectations - Kathleen Loughnan
• Catching Teller Crow - Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina
• Ghost Bird - Lisa Fuller
• Songs That Sound Like Blood - Jared Thomas
• Swallow The Air - Tara June Winch
• My Father's Shadow - Jannali Jones
• The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf - Ambelin Kwaymullina
• My Place - Sally Morgan
• Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia - Anita Heiss
• Meet Me at the Intersection - (anthology)
• Welcome to Country (Youth Edition) An Introduction to our First Peoples for Young Australians - Marcia Langton
• Becoming Kirralee Lewis - Jane Harrison
• Living on Stolen Land - Ambelin Kwaymullina
• Two Ways Strong - the Deadly Mob from Concordia

Adult Fiction

• The Old Lie - Claire G. Coleman
• Terra Nullius - Claire G. Coleman
• The Yield - Tara June Winch
• Homeland Calling - Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices Ellen Van Neeren (editor)
• Throat - Ellen Van Neeren
• Too Much Lip - Melissa Lucashenko
• The White Girl - Tony Birch
• Taboo - Kim Scott
• Blakwork - Alison Whittaker
• The Drover's Wife - Leah Purcell
• Dancing Home - Paul Collis

Adult Non-Fiction

• Not Just Black and White - Lesley & Tammy Williams
• Salt: Selected Essays and Stories - Bruce Pascoe
• Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture - Bruce Pascoe
• Talking to My Country - Stan Grant
• Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music - Archie Roach
• Born Again Blakfella - Jack Charles
• Top End Girl - Miranda Tapsell