What we have read
2004
The way we civilise – Ros Kidd
Is that you Ruthie? – Aunty Ruth Hegarty
* Forcibly removed – Uncle Albert Holt
Lighting the way: Reconciliation stories – Dianne Johnstone
My place – Sally Morgan
2005
Born a half-caste – Marnie Kennedy
If everyone cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker – Margaret Tucker
Dingo: The story of our mob – Sally Dingo
* Sister girl: The writings of Aboriginal activist and historian Jackie Huggins – Jackie Huggins
Very big journey: My life as I remember it – Aunty Hilda Jarman Muir
The life of Riley – Lin Riley
2006
#Why warriors lie down and die : Djambatj mala - Richard Trudgen
Freedom ride: A freedom rider remembers - Ann Curthoys
A bastard like me – Charles Perkins
Why weren’t we told? – Henry Reynolds
Edward Koiki Mabo: His life & struggle for land rights – Noel Loos & Koiki Mabo
Paddy’s road: Life stories of Patrick Dodson – Kevin Keefe
Saltwater people: The waves of memory – Nonie Sharp
2007
The secret river – Kate Grenville
Faith: Faith Bandler – gentle activist - Marilyn Lake
One hour more daylight: An historical overview of Aboriginal dispersal in South & South West Queensland – Mark Copland, Jonathan Richards & Andrew Walker
Mum Shirl: An autobiography – Mum Shirl
Oodgeroo Noonuckle – poetry – various titles
Jackson’s track: Memoir of a dreamtime place – Daryl Tonkin
* A dumping ground: A history of the Cherbourg settlement – Thom Blake
2008
Auntie Rita – Jackie Huggins
Under the Wintamarra tree – Carol Edwards
Maybe tomorrow - Boorie Pryor
Torres Strait Islander women and the Pacific War – Elizabeth Osborne
Kimberley warrior: The story of Jandamarra – John Nicholson
Songman – Bob Randall (plus video Kanyini)
2009
*Unbranded – Uncle Herb Wharton
The tall man – Chloe Hooper
* Bittersweet journey – Aunty Ruth Hegarty
* The grand experiment – Anouk Ride
* Life b’long Ali Drummond: A life in the Torres Strait – Samantha Faulkner
# Anonymous premonition – Yvette Holt
Stradbroke Dreamtime – Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal)
At North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum for first viewing of Oodgeroo Noonuccal Collection
2010
*Riding the Black Cockatoo – John Danalis
Maralinga: The Anangu story - Yalata & Oak Valley communities with Christobel Mattingley
Footprints: The journey of Lucy and Percy Pepper – Simon Flagg
Ted Kennedy, priest of Redfern – Edmund Campion
The city’s outback - Gillian Cowlishaw
It is no secret - Donna Meehan
* Seven seasons at Aurukun - Paula Shaw
Three warriors within – Marcus Pedro
2011
Jasper Jones – Craig Silvey
Listening to Country – Ros Moriarty
Every secret thing – Marie Munkara
Something like slavery? Queensland’s Aboriginal child workers 1842-1945 – Shirleen Robinson
#Dog Ear Café – Andrew Stojanovski
* Hey Mum, what’s a half caste? - Lorraine McGee Sippel
Throwing off the cloak: Reclaiming self reliance in the Torres Strait – Elizabeth Osborne
# Singing saltwater country: Journey to the songlines of Carpentaria - John Bradley
2012
That Deadman Dance - Kim Scott
I'm the one that know this country - Jessie Lennon
Purple Threads - Jeanne Leane
Grog War - Alexis Wright
The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper
IN CONJUNCTION WITH BLACK HISTORY MONTH & MOVIE SCREENING
The Dreaming and other essays - W.E.H. Stanner
Aboriginal Self-Determination - Gary Johns
Rene Baker File#28EDP - Rene Powell
2013
The biggest estate on earth: how Aborigines made Australia - Bill Gammage
They crossed a continent - Margaret Sommerville *The Lone Protester: A.M. Fernando in Australia and Europe - Fiona Paisley
Grace beside me - Sue McPherson
*Am I black enough for you? - Anita Heiss
* Ina's Story - Catherine Titasey
Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines - David Uniapon
# Good Morning Mr Sarra - Chris Sarra
2014
*Mullumbimby - Melissa Lucashenko
Steady Steady: the life and music of Seaman Dan - Henry "seaman" Dan & Dr Karl Neuenfeldt
Sarah Thornhill - Kate Grenville
#Quandamooka Dreaming - Sandra Delaney
Treading Lightly - Karl-Erik Sveiby & Tex Skulthorpe
Conspiracy of Silence - Timothy Bottoms 10th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
Sisters, Pearls and Mission Girls (Film)
Forgotten War - Henry Reynolds
2015
Dark Emu, Black Seeds - Bruce Pascoe
The Black War - Nicholas Clements
The Swan Book - Alexis Wright
Eded Mer - Thomas Lowah
A Rightful Place: race recognition & a more complete Commonwealth - Noel Pearson
First Footprints - Scott Kane COPIES OF DVD OF THIS TITLE SHARED
The Bush - Don Watson
Benang - Kim Scott
2016
*Not Just Black and White – Lesley and Tammy Williams
*Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane – Ray Kerkhove
On Track: Searching out the Bundian Way - John Blay
Warrior: a legendary leader's dramatic life and violent death on the colonial frontier - Libby Connors
Frontier Justice: a history of the Gulf Country to 1900 – Tony Roberts
*Murri on a Mission - Uncle Albert Holt
Cockatoo: my life in Cape York – Roy McIvor
The Secret War: A true history of Queensland’s Native Police – Jonathan Richards
2017
Talking to My Country – Stan Grant
Maralinga's Long Shadow – Christobel Mattingley
Finding Eliza - Larissa Behrendt
It's Our Country - edited by Megan Davis & Marcia Langton
Swallow the Air – Tara Jane Winch
Code of Silence - Colin Dillon
Ailan Kastom (Island Custom) – DVD
Saltwater – Cathy McLennan
2018
The Oldest Foods on Earth – John Newton
The Forgotten People – Damien Freeman & Shirleen Morris
Barbed Wire & Cherry Blossoms - Anita Heiss
Murder at Myall Creek - Mark Tedeschi
Serious Whitefella Stuff – Mark Moran
From the Edge - Mark McKenna
No Ordinary Judgement – Nonie Sharp
Dancing Home – Paul Collis
2019
Taboo – Kim Scott
Of Ashes & Rivers that Run to the Sea – Marie Munkara
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia - Edited by Anita Heiss
The Missing Man - Peter Rees
Common People (short stories) – Tony Birch
Deep Time Dreaming - Billy Griffiths
The Drover's Wife – Leah Purcell
Moment of Truth, History & Australia’s Future – Mark McKenna
2020
Dark Emu (read 2015) & /or Young Dark Emu & / or Salt – Bruce Pascoe
Finding the Heart of the Nation: Journey of the Uluru Statement to Voice, Treaty, Truth -Thomas Mayor
Too Much Lip - Melissa Lucashenko
Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre - Edited by Jane Lydon & Lyndall Ryan
Adventures with agitators – Paul Richardson
The Yield - Tara Jane Wench
Navigating Boundaries: the Asian diaspora in Torres Strait – Edited Anna Shnukal, Greg Ramsay, Yuiko Nagata
Australia Day – Stan Grant
2021
A Long Way from No Go – Tjanara Goreng Goreng
A Question of Colour: My journey to belonging - Pattie Lees
White Girl - Tony Birch
Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre - Edited by Jane Lydon & Lyndall Ryan
Sand Talk – Tyson Yunkaporta
Truganini - Cassandra Pybus
Fire Country - Victor Steffensen
Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now - Edited by Ellen van Neerven
2022 Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) - Anita Heiss
Black, White & Exempt, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Lives under exemption – (Ed) Lucinda Aberdeen & Jennifer Jones
Wisdom from Australia's Indigenous Leaders - Peter McConchie
Tracker – Alexis Wright
Truth-Telling – Henry Reynolds
History Life and Times of Robert Anderson of Mulgumpin (Moreton Island) - Eve Peacock
Arnie: Pearls and Luggers in the Torres Strait – Arnie Duffield & Lee Duffield
Ninu Grandmother’s Law - Nura Nungalka Ward
2023
Biting the Clouds: Conspiracy of Silence - Fiona Foley
Born again Blakfella - Jack Charles
Tell me why: the story of my life and music - Archie Roach
The Battle of One Tree Hill - Ray Kerkhove
Brisbane: the Aboriginal presence - Rod Fisher
Another day in the colony - Chelsea Watego
Wasi - Erwer Le, Lam
Jack of Hearts: QX11594 - Jackie Huggins
