Suggested books 

1) Retroactive 2; NSW Australian Curriculum History, Stage 5: The Making of the Modern World and Australia.

• Library area: non-fiction
• Difficulty level: B

• This stage 5 History textbook covers the stage 5 syllabus.
• Access the appropriate information via the table of contents at the front of the book. You can easily locate the Rights and Freedoms content, which is further separated using sub-headings.
• Use the index and keywords or phrases to find the exact page/s that cover this content.
• The text has an associated e-Resource available with extra content available, such as a glossary of terms. The front inside cover has instructions and the appropriate code to access this e-Resource version.

 

2) Stolen Girl

• Library area, Picture books: F SAF
• Difficulty level: A

 

• This a fiction picture book, whose author’s grandmother was one of the Stolen Generation.
• The book tells the story of what the author thinks may have happened to her grandmother.
• The preface of the book gives a simple explanation about the stolen generation with Kevin Rudd’s historic apology to the people of the stolen generation as its endpoint. This resource helps you understand the issues on an emotional level.

 

 

 

3) Issues in society, Volume 169; Aboriginal Land Rights

• Library area, non-fiction 346.9404 ABO
• Difficulty level: B

• Edited by Justin Healey, this is one book in the series “Issues in Society”.
• This issue as the title refers concerns itself with Aboriginal Land Rights in Australia.
• This issue covers two specific areas drawn from a variety of sources and these are all included in the contents page.
• At the back of the book, there is a small glossary, with very detailed definitions and an index giving the exact page for the content of your keywords or phrases, and a concise list of statistics taken from the contents of the publication.
• This issue also has a list of Web sites inside the back cover, suggested for further reference and research, and within the introduction, the author references the importance of critical evaluation with some pointers on how to critically evaluate the information with which you have been presented.

 

4) Indigenous Australia for Dummies

• Library Area: non-fiction 305.89 BEH
• Difficulty level: B
  

  Behrendt, L. (2012) Indigenous Australia for Dummies

• A non-fiction text covering many aspects of Australia’s first peoples and their cultures.
• The author is a professor of law and the director of research at the Jumbanna indigenous house of learning. She is also an Indigenous Australian.
• This book covers a variety of issues on the plight of the Australian Aboriginal peoples, it has the useful feature of “contents at a glance”. This is a simplified contents page that helps you to find the broad area you wish to research, and then a table of contents breaks these down to more specific areas should your research require this.
• At the end of the book is a glossary for definitions of keywords and phrases, there is also an index giving the exact page for the content of your keywords or phrases.