NAIDOC Week

The NAIDOC 2025 theme – "The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy" – celebrates not only the achievements of the past but the bright future ahead, empowered by the strength of our young leaders, the vision of our communities, and the legacy of our ancestors.

Updated June 23, 2025
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Right story, wrong story
Yunkaporta, Tyson
Paper Book
SAND TALK, Tyson Yunkaporta's bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, 'an extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming'. RIGHT STORY, WRONG STORY extends Yunkaporta's explorations of how we can learn from Indigenous thinking....
Sand talk : how indigenous thinking can save the world
Yunkaporta, Tyson
Paper Book
A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability--and offers a new template for living. As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems...
Sorry and beyond : healing the stolen generations
Butler, Brian
Paper Book
Brian Butlers grandmother was taken from her family in 1910. She was 12 years old. Twenty years later her daughter, Brians mother, was taken. Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, like Brian Butlers, have been coping with the trauma of child removal for more than a century....
The last daughter : a true story of love, loss and reconnection
Matthews, Brenda
Paper Book
When Brenda Matthews was two years old, she and her siblings were taken from their parents. For the next five years she was a much-loved daughter in a white family, a happy child in a country town on the outskirts of Sydney, unaware of the existence of her Aboriginal family or how hard her parents...
Black and blue : a memoir of racism and resilience
Gorrie, Veronica
Ebook
Song of the crocodile
Simpson, Nardi
Paper Book
'SONG OF THE CROCODILE is a moving, wise and deeply rewarding novel from an astonishing writer' - Emily Maguire, author of AN ISOLATED INCIDENTDarnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in...
Enclave
Coleman, Claire G.
Paper Book
  , 'These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the voice of the Chairman said. 'I can continue to assure you of this: within the Wall you are perfectly safe.' Christine could not sleep, she could not wake, she could not think. She stared, half...
Talking to My Country
Grant, Stan.
Paper Book
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture and national identity by one of Australia's leading journalists.
The Great Undoing
Allsopp, Sharlene.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE COURIER-MAIL PEOPLE''S CHOICE QUEENSLAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD ''Sharlene Allsopp''s The Great Undoing is groundbreaking storytelling -...
The yield
Winch, Tara June
Paper Book
Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Shortlisted for the VPLA. Winner, Book of the Year, People's Choice, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at NSW Premier's Literary Award. Shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Just tell the truth and someone...
A Piece of Red Cloth
Norrington, Leonie.
Paper Book
A powerful, unique novel based on the oral history of the Yolngu people from north-east Arnhem Land that tells the story of a grandmother who stops at nothing to protect her granddaughter.
Main character energy: ; how to own the narrative of your life
Hunt, Bianca.
Paper Book
Bianca Hunt has hosted TV shows, rocked runways, given multiple TEDx talks and founded a talent agency - all before her mid-twenties. But while her ambition was to take centre stage in her own life, limiting expectations hadn't always given Bianca top billing in her own story.Not content with the...
Murriyang : song of time
Grant, Stan
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2025 ABIA Awards, Social Impact Book of the Year Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, he offers a means of moving beyond the binaries and embracing a path to peace and forgiveness, rooted in...
Dirrayawadha: ; Rise Up
Heiss, Anita.
Paper Book
'Dirrayawadha is full of heart and hope, truth-telling and history - and shimmers with language too' Guardian 'A story from the past given vivid life for new understanding'​ Kate Grenville __________________________...
Always will be
Saunders, Mykaela.
Paper Book
In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question- what might country, community and culture look like in the Tweed if Gooris reasserted their sovereignty? Each of the stories in Always Will Be is set in its own future version of the...

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