Indigenous Australia Resources

For all teachers and schools, PLANN thoroughly recommend the AIATSIS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) Guide to evaluating and selecting education resources. This guide is available for free download via their website here.

This guide was published in October 2022 and helps readers to assess resources based on Indigenous involvement in the production of the resource.

Of interest, also, are the ways in which this Guide has been applied in school libraries - this change to spine stickers at Byron Bay High School is particularly interesting.

Picture Books

Adam Briggs - Our Home, Our Heartbeat

Warren Brim - ABC Dreaming

Adam Goodes - Somebody’s Land

Helen Milroy - The Cockatoo Wars

One Arm Point Remote Community School - Our World Bardi Jaawi: Life at Ardiyooloon

Bruce Pascoe - Found

Jasmine Seymour - Baby Business

Corey Tutt - The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia’s First Peoples

Venetia Tyson - My Lost Mob

YA Books

Jane Christophersen - Kakadu Calling

Sue McPherson - Brontide

Bruce Pascoe - Young Dark Emu

Fog A Dox

David Spillman and Lisa Wilyuka - Us Mob Walawurru

Mariah Sweetman - Robert Runs

Jared Thomas - Uncle Xbox

Fiction

Julie Janson - Compassion

Madukka: The River Serpent

Marie Munkara - A Most Peculiar Act

Every Secret Thing

Non-Fiction

Cathy Freeman - Born to Run: My Story

Marcia Langton - Welcome to Country

Betty Lockyer - Last Truck Out

Aileen Moreton-Robinson - Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism

Bruce Pascoe - Dark Emu

Margaret Tucker - If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed [specifically the new edition, as the first edition of her work was heavily edited to placate white audiences]

Chelsea Watego - Another Day in the Colony

Poetry

Tony Birch - Whisper Songs

Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella - False Claims of Colonial Thieves

Ambelin Kwaymullina - Living on Stolen Land

Kirli Saunders - Returning

Alf Taylor - Cartwarra or what?

Daisy Utemorrah - Do Not Go Around the Edges

Alison Whittaker - Blakwork

Graphic Novels

Lauren Boyle and Alyssa Mason - Storm Warning