Picture Gallery

The images in this picture gallery supplement the material in The Little Red Yellow Black Book. Taken together, they provide examples of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and contemporary culture.

Aboriginal Studies Press has sourced these images and sought copyright permission to use them. If you wish to use an image for any purpose, you must contact the relevant copyright holder (see captions).

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Online exhibitions

The following exhibitions have been created by the AIATSIS Library. They contain many valuable documents, transcripts, diary entries, music scripts and photos on subjects as diverse as Maningrida community’s newsletters, the Dawn and New Dawn magazines, the NAIDOC posters from 1972 to 2007, and information about the music collected and recorded by musicologist, Alice Moyle.

Indigenous Australians at War by Garth O'Connell
This site provides information on Australia's Indigenous servicemen and women, past and present.

YES! The 1967 Referendum Newspapers, reports and campaign material relating to the 1967 Referendum.

Day of Mourning and Protest - 70th Anniversary Marks 26 January as the day when Aboriginal civil-rights protestors met at Australian Hall, Sydney to draw attention to their plight, 70 years ago.

To Remove and Protect State legislations identified in the Bringing Them Home report which enabled the forced removal of Aboriginal Children. Annual reports of all state and territory ‘Protection Boards’ and subsequent government agencies.

The Freedom Ride Selections from the collection featuring the diary of Professor Ann Curthoys.

Collectors of Words Indigenous word lists compiled by Robert Brough Smyth and Edward Micklethwaite Curr.

The NAIDOC Posters Features the NAIDOC posters from 1972 to 2007

The Sorry Books Selected messages from the Sorry Books held in the AIATSIS Library’s manuscript collection.

Dawn and New Dawn magazines were published between 1952 and 1975 by the New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board.

Treaty An overview of the history of the debates about a Treaty.

AIATSIS Library Rare Book Collection Selections from the collection.

Musical Connections - the life and work of Alice Marshall Moyle Features correspondence from the Moyle collection.

The Wentworth Lectures Presenting the papers from the Wentworth Lectures since 1978.

Community Newsletters Currently presenting Maningrida Mirage spanning from 1969 to 1974.

Ethnomathematics in Australia Featuring selected material relating to Ethnomathematics.

Alyawarra Ethnographic Archive by Woodrow W Denham.

Audio and Video

Mimi, short film (video clip). Courtesy Blackfella Films.
A short drama about a young Western art collector who gets more than she’s bargained for when she purchases Indigenous art pieces that include a Mimi statue and a painting of a barramundi. Director–writer Warwick Thornton (Kaytej), producer Rachel Perkins.
Mimi short film mp4 (11.2MB)

Video clip, Charles Perkins. Courtesy Screen Australia.
Charles Perkins on the Freedom Ride, an excerpt from an episode of Australian Biography Series.
Charles Perkins mp4 (2.9MB)

Station Manager Dot West talks about the history of Goolari Radio. Courtesy CBOnline
Community members can be presenters or contributors of news and information. The station is a registered training organisation and hosts reality-based training programs for local Indigenous people.
Dot West mp3 (288k)

Tom Calma’s response to the Australian government’s apology to the Stolen Generations. Courtesy The Australian Human Rights Commission.
Tom Calma is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
Tom Calma mp3 (8.8MB)

Aboriginal Studies Press sells a range of CDs with Aboriginal music from traditional to 1950s styles and;

DVDs with films on varied subjects