So you want to learn more about First Nations Australia but don’t know where to start? Here’s a comprehensive* list of where you can start to engage with First Nations Australia

Becoming a good Ally is a process that involves becoming uncomfortable, learning how to show up and shut up. most importantly it’s a process of learning how to listen.

“You are an amazing Ally if you are able to sit with the discomfort, show up in spaces where you’re putting yourself on the line for an issue that matters to you… and the discomfort people are feeling and the reckoning they’re feeling in and of themselves, should absolutely be embraced.” - Teela Reid, Black Matters Podcast Season 1 Episode 6

 

  • Lydia Fairhall
    Dobby
    Leah Flangan
    ​​Emily Wurramara
    Ziggy Ramo
    Youth Yindi
    The Medics
    Warumpi Band
    A.B. Original
    DENNI
    King Stingray
    Themla Plum
    Christine Anu
    Warumpi Band
    Jimmy Little
    Nooky
    Barkaa
    Shellie Morris
    Microwave Jenny
    Tiddas
    Emma Donovan
    Casey Donovan
    The Stiff Gins
    Dan Sultan
    Jessica Mauboy
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    Janawi Dance Clan
    Banagarra Dance Theatre
    Moogahlin Performing Arts
    Boomalli Artists Collective
    Gapuwik Culture and Arts
    Kylie Cladwell
    Brownyn Bancroff
    Darwin Aboriginal Arts Fair
    Tiwi Design
    Blak Douglas
    Nicole Monks
    Tony Albert
    Djilin Arts
    Mervyn Bishop
    Reko Rennie
    Luke Currie-Richarson
    Buku-Larnggay Mulka
    Injalak Arts

  • Black Matters
    First Things First/Not So PG with Brooke Blurton & Matty Mills
    Pretty for an Aboriginal
    The Real Podcast
    The Palmcast
    Deadly Podcasts
    AWAYE
    Speaking Out
    Yarn Quest
    Brorginals
    Trash Tiddas
    Awesome Black Summer Playlist

  • Children’s Books
    Baby Business by Jasmine Seymour
    Respect by Fay Stewart-Muir and Sue Lawson
    Our Home, Our Heartbeat by Briggs
    Finding the Heart of the Nation by Thomas Mayor
    From Little Things Big Things Grow by Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody’s
    They Took The Children Away by Archie Roach
    Browyn Bancroft Collection
    Hairy Holes by Brenton E Mckenna
    Whylah The Koorie Warrior by Jordan Gould and Richard Pritchard


    For adults and mature readers
    Songspirals - Gay'wu Group of Women
    Ninu Grandmothers’ Law by Nura Nungalka Ward
    Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
    Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
    Throat by Ellen Van Neerven
    Firefront edited by Alison Whittaker
    The White Girl by Tony Birch
    Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
    Tiddas by Anita Heiss
    My Place by Sally Morgan
    Born - again Blackfulla by Jack Charles
    Becuase a White Man’ll Never Do it by Kevin Gilbert
    Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
    Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory by Patricia Hill Collins
    Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
    The Yield by Tarra June Winch
    The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson by Leah Purcell
    Indigenous Australia for Dummmies by Lerissa Behrendt, Stan Grant (forward)
    Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
    Australia Day by Stan Grant
    The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant
    A Rightful Place: A Road Map to Regonigition by Noel Pearson, Stan Grant, Rachel Perkins, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Pat Dodson, Rod Little and Jackie Huggins.
    The Book Thinks Ya Deadly by Corey Tutt
    Plains of Promise by Alexis Wright
    Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
    The Visitors by Jane Harrison

    Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

  • Australian Indigenous Fashion (Instagram)
    First Nations Fashion + Design
    Clothing the Gaps
    Maara Collective
    Myrdah
    AARLI
    Kirrikin Australia
    Gammin Threads
    Ikuntiji Artists
    Mimi & Jinda
    Kykoe
    Koori Threads
    Ngali Australia
    Lillardia Briggs-Huston
    Wah Wah Australia
    Amber Days the Label
    Kaninda Australia
    Magpie Goose
    Gamilarray Gulay
    Jaana Bulaan
    LORE
    Haus Of Dizzy
    Paul MacCann Art

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    Blak Markets
    Blackfulla Bookclub
    Australian Indigenous Fashion
    First Nations Fashion + Design
    Trading Blak
    Darug Custodians
    Awesome Black Org
    First Nations Response
    Wiradjuri Dreaming
    Itsmattymills
    Brooke Blurton
    Tony Armstrong
    NITV_AU

  • The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
    True Colours (SBS/NITV)
    Servant or Slave
    In My Blood It Runs
    The Skin of Others
    Sweet Country
    Mabo
    The Sapphires
    Toomelah
    Emu Runner
    Ten Canoes
    Babukiueria
    Samson & Delilah
    Rabit Proof Fence
    Yolngu Boy
    Beneath Clouds
    Bloodlines
    Freedom Ride
    Bran Nue Dae
    My Brother Vinnie
    Australian Rules
    Spear
    Jedda
    Vote Yes for Aborigines
    Bush Mechanics (on YouTube)
    The Gods of Wheat Street
    Cleverman
    Redfern Now
    ABC Indigenous
    SBS/NITV

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    Culture is Life - https://www.cultureislife.org/
    The Real - https://www.the-real.com.au/
    IndigenousX - https://indigenousx.com.au/
    'Time to embrace history of country': Bruce Pascoe and the first dancing grass harvest in 200 years’
    NITV - https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/
    ABC Walking Together - https://www.abc.net.au/events/walking-together/
    Reconciliation Australia - https://www.reconciliation.org.au/
    White womens fragility - http://blackyouthproject.com/i-keep-writing-about-white-womens-fragility-and-dog-whistle-aggression-because-they-keep-proving-my-point/?fbclid=IwAR1RENoYZ5kVo73OGlR08OVS6NQPekzl3ov7kTGbvzuDdqKYBkE6eQAPwT0
    From The Heart - https://fromtheheart.com.au/
    Ally or Accomplice the language of activism https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/ally-or-accomplice-the-language-of-activism
    Intersectionality and Indigenous Feminism - http://postcolonialist.com/civil-discourse/intersectionality-indigenous-feminism-aboriginal-womans-perspective/
    Intersectionality and motherhood - https://othersociologist.com/intersectionality-equity-diversity-2/#motherhood
    How to raise an anti racist kid - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/well/family/how-to-raise-an-anti-racist-kid.html?surface=home-living-vi&fellback=false&req_id=747208875&algo=identity&imp_id=221800285&action=click&module=Smarter%20Living&pgtype=Homepage
    Black Lives Matter and Murals - https://meanjin.com.au/blog/black-lives-matter-movements-and-murals/?fbclid=IwAR230bNrrzXnD1uYW2jZhD_zO5KMj1FdAcWhXczf3IPW8oY0DioTf0UDc6s
    How microaggressions are like mosquito bites Same Difference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDd3bzA7450

*This list could be endless, there are so many amazing Australian First Nations artists and storytellers but these are some of my favs

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