Aboriginal Studies Press products

The great forgetting conveys the forgotten story of Australia during the past couple of hundred years. In poetry and with striking reproductions, it tells of the interaction between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people: the brutality, arrogance, honest misunderstandings, occasional decencies and continuing unresolved problems.

In this wonderful retelling of a Dreaming story of the Wongutha people from the Eastern goldfields, Aboriginal author May O'Brien explains how the Seven Sisters (Pleiades) came to be. Beautifully illustrated by Sue Wyatt, the book offers teachers and librarians a way to introduce traditional Aboriginal beliefs, Dreaming stories and language to their students.

On 3 June 1992, the High Court of Australia handed down the Mabo decision, recognising the continuing rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the original inhabitants of the land under their own law and customs.

The late 1920s saw an extraordinary protest by an Australian Aboriginal man on the streets of London. Standing outside Australia House, cloaked in tiny skeletons, Anthony Martin Fernando condemned the failure of British rule in his country.

The late 1920s saw an extraordinary protest by an Australian Aboriginal man on the streets of London. Standing outside Australia House, cloaked in tiny skeletons, Anthony Martin Fernando condemned the failure of British rule in his country.