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An historic museum in Far North Queensland will be renovated thanks to a grant from the Australian Government.

The National Indigenous Visual Arts Action Plan sets the Australian Government’s priorities to support the visual arts sector over the next five years. The Plan will support Aboriginal and Torres...

Proud altar boys, Glen Walsh and Steven Alward, were childhood friends in their working-class community in Newcastle. Steven went on to become a journalist, Glen a priest. But their lives came to be burdened by secrets kept and exposed. Glen's decision to give evidence of a cover-up of clerical abuse ended in tragedy, while Steven fought to overcome a traumatic past. Shortlisted for the 2020 Walkley Book Award, this is an explosive exposé of widespread and organised clerical abuse of children in one Australian city, and how the cover-up extended to every echelon of the Church.

At a hinge-point in his life, artist and ex-gallerist Tony Oliver travelled to the East Kimberley, where he plunged into the crosscurrents and eddies of the Aboriginal art world. He would stay for almost a decade, working alongside a group of senior Gija artists, including acclaimed figures Paddy Bedford and Freddie Timms, to establish Jirrawun Arts, briefly one of the country's most successful and controversial Aboriginal painting collectives. 'The Stranger Artist' follows Oliver's journey and the deep relationships he formed, an experience that forever altered his life's trajectory. His...

'Ceremony Men' investigates the significance of one of Australia's greatest collections of Indigenous song, story, and ceremony—the collections of the linguist and anthropologist T. G. H. Strehlow. By critically interrogating Strehlow's collection in partnership with contemporary Arrernte and Anmatyerr people, the book challenges the centrality asserted by Strehlow in the making of 'his collection'. Gibson restores balance by highlighting the instrumental role played by the many Aboriginal people that guided and educated Strehlow over four decades and illuminates the depth of cultural...

Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, is where the two early Australias—ancient and modern—first collided. 'People of the River' journeys into the lost worlds of the Aboriginal people and the settlers of Dyarubbin, both complex worlds with ancient roots....

In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present-day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names, and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginal people and convicts in the second penal settlement in Australia....

'Lucky's' is a story of family.A story about migration.It is also about a man called Lucky.His restaurant chain.A fire that changed everything.A New Yorker article which might save a career.The mystery of a missing father.An impostor who got the girl.An unthinkable tragedy.A roll of the dice. And a story of love—lost, sought and won again (at last). Following a trail of cause and effect that spans decades, this unforgettable epic tells a story about lives bound together by the pursuit of love, family, and new beginnings.

Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence....