Girls Can Fly
Reviewed onGirls Can Fly is an inspirational book for younger teenagers, created by Aboriginal writer and artist Sally Morgan and her daughter Ambelin. Together they have written and illustrated this delightful …
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Red Can Origami
Reviewed onWhen young Melbourne journalist Ava lands herself a job in the northwest town of Gubinge, she is warned the ‘country will eat you alive’. Instead, she finds ‘it’s got you …
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Yinti series
Reviewed onYinti is a Walmajarri boy growing up in the Great Sandy Desert in the North West of Australia. The Yinti series (Yinti: Desert Child, Yinti: Desert Dog, and Yinti: Desert …
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Young Dark Emu: A Truer History
Reviewed onBruce Pascoe wants our children to rebel. “We need our children to rebel … If we don’t encourage them to demonstrate or protest, then we need to instil the wisest …
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Kindred
Reviewed onThis wonderful debut collection by Kirli Saunders, a multi-talented Gunai woman, deserves wide acclaim. Her themes are country, family, Indigenous issues, identity, connection, love and loss, and the role of …
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Brontide
Reviewed onBrontide tells the stories of Rob, Pen, Benny Boy and Jack, a mix of Aboriginal and white boys who are in conversation with narrator Sue over the course of a …
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Baby Business
Reviewed onThe women and children of a family group gather to welcome a new baby to Country. The Aunties explain the steps of the traditional smoking ceremony (smoke on the baby’s …
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My Father’s Shadow
Reviewed onKaya and her mother are in hiding. Her father is missing, feared dead following his decision to turn whistle blower. Now suffering PTSD after a traumatic event she cannot recall, …
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Blakwork
Reviewed onAlison Whittaker’s Blakwork is a collection of poetry that presents a counterview of mainstream Australian cultural discourse. A Gomeroi woman and Harvard law graduate, Whittaker has written a work pulsing …
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Ubby’s Underdogs: Return of the Dragons (III)
Reviewed onThe Ubby’s Underdogs graphic novel trilogy is unlike anything else you’ll find in comics. Set in Broome in the late 1940s, our titular teenage heroine, Ubby, is the leader of …
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