A Shared History

General

The School Libraries and Information Literacy unit of Professional Support and Curriculum Directorate produce reviews of resources. A quarterly review of recent books, video, teaching kits and Internet sites are compiled. The reviews can be found on the School Libraries section of Curriculum K-12 Directorate Internet site.

The Equity Resource Library provides a borrowing service for teachers in DET schools.
Phone: (02) 9582 5860
Fax: (02) 9550 2874
Address: 11-13 Swanson Street, Erskineville 2043
Email: equity.sydney@det.nsw.edu.au
Online query form: http://equityresourcelibrary.det.nsw.edu.au

National Archives of Australia Education section contains teachers kits and CD-ROMs
Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
National Library of Australia
State Library of New South Wales
PictureAustralia
ANTaR
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
Message Stick (Australian Broadcasting Commission)
Deadly Vibes (Aboriginal media, communications and events management agency)
ABC learn Online, Indigenous search (Australian Broadcasting Commission)
ScreenSound Australia
Ronin Films

NSW Department of Education and Training resources

Stages 1 to 3

Aboriginal languages map
Discovering Democracy units of work
One world, many democracies; citizens of the world

Stage 1

Treasures
Multistage units
Celebrating together

Stage 2

Talking Identity
Multistage units
It didn't always look like this
Celebrating together

Stage 3

Multistage units
Celebrating together
By word of mouth
Sites and scenes
Belief in Action

Books

Benson, D. H.and Howell, J. (1995) Taken for granted : the bushland of Sydney and its suburbs
Kangaroo Press in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kenthurst, N.S.W.

Butlin, Noel. G. (1983) Our original aggression, Aboriginal populations of southeastern Australia, 1788-1850 George Allen & Unwin, Sydney

Elder, B. (1988) Blood on the wattle: massacres and maltreatment of Australian Aborigines since 1788
Child & Associates, Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.

Fletcher, B. H. (Australian ed.) (1975) Collins, David, An account of the English colony in New South Wales, with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, etc. of the native inhabitants of that country Reed in association with the Royal Historical Society, Sydney.

Healy, R. & Douglas, C. (1995) Towards a new Dreaming: future directions for land management in Australia Clean Up Australia Ltd Pyrmont, N.S.W.

Hinkson, M. (2001) Aboriginal Sydney : a guide to important places of the past and present Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra

Horton, D. (ed), 1994, The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History, Society and Culture, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.

Kohen, J. L. (1993) The Darug and their neighbours : the traditional Aboriginal owners of the Sydney region Darug Link in association with the Blacktown and District Historical Society Blacktown, N.S.W.

Marsden, J. & Tan, S. (1998) The Rabbits, Lothian Books, Melbourne.

McLeod, Pauline. (1994) Aboriginal art & stories Intechnics Pty Ltd., Carlingford, N.S.W.

Miller, J. (1985) Koori, a will to win : the heroic resistance, survival & triumph of black Australia Angus & Robertson, Sydney

Newbury, P.W. (ed.) (1999) Aboriginal heroes of the resistance: from Pemulwuy to Mabo Action for World Development (NSW Inc.), Australia

Nicholson, J. (1995) The First Fleet: A New Beginning Allen & Unwin, Sydney.

Richardson, A. & Trudgeon, T. (1987) Australia in the Making: An Investigation of Nineteenth-century Australia, Nelson, Melbourne.

Reed, A. W. (2000) Aboriginal place names New Holland, French's Forest, N.S.W.

Stanbury, P. & Clegg, J. (1990) A field guide to Aboriginal rock engravings : with special reference to
Sydney University Press, Sydney.

Stewart, K. & Percival, B. (1997) Bush Food of New South Wales: A Botanic Record and an Aboriginal Oral History Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

Thieberger, N. & McGregor, W. (eds.), 1994, Macquarie Aboriginal Words: A Dictionary of Words from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, Macquarie Library, North Ryde, NSW.

Trezise, P. (1988) The Peopling of Australia Collins, Sydney. ·

Troy, J. (1994) The Sydney Language, AIATSIS, Australian Dictionaries Projects, Canberra.

Turbet, P. (2001) The Aborigines of the Sydney District Before 1788 Viacom Company, Sydney.

Wheatley, N. (1987) My place Addison Wesley Longman, South Melbourne

Yarwood, A .T. (1984) Growing Up in Phillip’s Sydney Kangaroo Press, Sydney.

Richardson, A. & Trudgeon, T. (1987) Australia in the Making: An Investigation of Nineteenth-century Australia, Nelson, Melbourne.

Willmot, E. (1987) Pemulwuy, the rainbow warrior Weldons, McMahons Point

Kits and videos

Whose place is it anyway?: a teacher's resource kit (2000) Historic Houses Trust, Museum of Sydney, Sydney.

Aboriginal Literacy Kit, 1996, Sydney, NSW Board of Studies

Invasion and resistance: untold stories : Aboriginal voices in Australian history (1995) [kit] Aboriginal Curriculum Unit, Board of Studies NSW, North Sydney NSW.

Big mob books for little fullas the Aboriginal emergent readers kit, 1996,
NSW Board of Studies, Sydney, NSW.

Burridge, N, 2000, Nallawa [kit] achieving reconciliation in NSW schools Macquarie University, Sydney
Talking Lapa : a local Aboriginal community history of La Perouse, 1995, NSW Board of Studies, North Sydney.

Rainbow serpent (1985) [video recording] SBS TV Sydney, N.S.W. (6 episodes)

Windradyne : Wiradjuri resistance, the beginning (1993) [video recording] Aboriginal Education Unit, NSW Dept. of School Education, Sydney.