National Reconciliation Week 2025: Bridging Now to Next

National Reconciliation Week (27 May - 3 June) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.

The National Reconciliation Week 2025 theme, Bridging Now to Next, reflects the ongoing connection between past, present and future. Bridging Now to Next calls on all Australians to step forward together, to look ahead and continue the push forward as past lessons guide us.

Updated May 25, 2025
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After story
Behrendt, Larissa
Paper Book
When a mother and daughter take the overseas trip of a lifetime, they discover that the past is never quite behind them. When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer...
Always Was, Always Will Be : The Campaign for Peace and Justice Continues
Mayo, Thomas
Paper Book
In Always Was, Always Will Be, bestselling author Thomas Mayo investigates 'what's next?' for reconciliation and justice in Australia after the failed October 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum. Since the referendum, supporters and volunteers have been asking for guidance as...
Australian Aboriginal Medicine: Caring for People
Hill, Marji.
Paper Book
Discover the extraordinary legacy of Australia's First Nations people in Australian Aboriginal Medicine: Caring for People. For over 65,000 years, First Nations people have thrived as global pioneers-masters of the sea, trailblazers in religion, art, aerodynamics, and innovators in land management,...
Bennelong & Phillip : a history unravelled
Fullagar, Kate
Paper Book
The first joint biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history - the colonised and coloniser - and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Winner of the 2024 ACT Literary Award, Non-Fiction ...
Black witness : the power of Indigenous media
McQuire, Amy
Paper Book
Amy McQuire has been writing on Indigenous affairs since she was 17 years old. Over the past two decades, she has reported on most of the key events involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including numerous deaths in custody, the Palm Island uprising, the Bowraville murders and the...
Broken Heart: ; A True History of the Voice Referendum
Morris, Shireen.
Paper Book
In late 2023, Australians voted 'No' to recognising Indigenous peoples through a constitutional Voice. Broken Heart unpacks the true, complex history of the referendum, illuminating how an alliance between Indigenous advocates and constitutional conservatives fractured under political...
The dreaming path : indigenous thinking to change your life
Callaghan, Paul
Paper Book
Tired of going around in circles? The Dreaming Path has always been there, but in the modern-day world, it can be hard to find. There are so many demands on us - family, health, bills, a mortgage, a career - that it can be hard to remember what's most important: you....
Dying rose
Bermingham, Kathryn
Paper Book
An investigation into the deaths of six Aboriginal women and the police responses that left families reeling 'If you think it's hard being a white woman in Australia, try being a black woman.' These were the words that set a team of journalists at the Adelaide Advertiser on...
Finding the Heart of the nation : the journey of the Uluru statement towards voice, treaty and truth
Mayor, Thomas
Paper Book
This is a book for all Australians. Since the Uluru Statement from the Heart was formed in 2017, Thomas Mayo has travelled around the country to promote its vision of a better future for Indigenous Australians. He's visited communities big and small, often with the Uluru Statement...
Indigenous knowledge : Australian perspectives
Langton, Marcia
Paper Book
How are we to live well with others? How can we sustain abundant environments and nourishing cultures? How might connections to place and generations past strengthen our cultural, political and economic futures? Indigenous knowledge traditions have been fundamental to human life in Australia for...
Innovation : knowledge and ingenuity
McNiven, Ian J.
Paper Book
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt 'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard Flanagan
Jilya : How one Indigenous woman from the Pilbara transformed psychology
Westerman, Tracy
Paper Book
From humble beginnings in the remote Pilbara, psychologist and Nyamal woman Tracy Westerman has redefined what's possible at every turn. Despite neither of her parents progressing past primary school, and never having met a psychologist before attending university, Tracy went on to...
Karkalla at Home: Native foods & everyday recipes for connecting to Country
Woods, Mindy.
Paper Book
Experience the incredible wealth of First Nations foods in everyday recipes for home cooks and families.
Killing for country : a family story
Marr, David
Paper Book
David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed saga of politics and power in the colonial world - of...
The little red yellow black book : an introduction to indigenous Australia
Paper Book
Originally published in 1994, The Little Red Yellow Black Book has established itself as the perfect starting point for those who want to learn about the rich cultures and histories of Australias First Peoples. Written from an Indigenous perspective, this highly illustrated and accessible...
Long Yarn Short: ; We Are Still Here
Turnbull-Roberts, Vanessa.
Paper Book
At just ten years old, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts was forcibly removed - stolen - from her family, community and kinship systems. After eight years in various out-of-home care placements, Vanessa fled the system, reconnected with kin and returned to country for the very first time. Only then did she...
Marramarra : Indigenous artists making history visible
Andrew, Brook Garru
Paper Book
marramarra (a Wiradjuri word meaning to create, make or do) explores how contemporary Indigenous artists and their communities are revealing hidden histories and finding pathways to healing. marramarra shares conversations with leading contemporary artists, including Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin...
Monumental disruptions : Aboriginal people and colonial commemorations in so-called Australia
Carlson, Bronwyn
Paper Book
What is the place of Australia's colonial memorials in today's society? Do we remove, destroy or amend? Monumental Disruptions investigates how these memorials have been viewed, and are viewed, by First Nations people to find a way forward. In June 2020, on the heels of Australia's James Cook...
Praiseworthy
Wright, Alexis.
Paper Book
**Winner, Stella Prize 2024** **Winner, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award** **Winner, The James Tait Black Prize, Fiction 2024** **Shortlisted, The...
Protecting Indigenous Art
Golvan, Colin.
Paper Book
There is the country non-Indigenous people can see, and then there is the country Indigenous people see that the rest of us can barely comprehend, but glimpse through the vivid colours, shapes and imagery of their artworks, and their visual recounting of ancient stories and settings....
Reaching through time : finding my family's stories
Bostock, Shauna
Paper Book
The powerful story of a Bundjalung woman's journey to uncover her family history.
Return to Uluru
McKenna, Mark
Paper Book
When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 - the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokunnuna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subsequent Commonwealth inquiry - stood out as a mirror of racial politics in...
Shapeshifting: ; First Nations Lyric Nonfiction
Leane, Jeanine
Paper Book
Shapeshifting, co-edited by Jeanine Leane and Ellen van Neerven, is a wide-ranging collection of nonfiction by First Nations writers that breaks new ground. These lyric essays push the boundaries of nonfiction beyond the biographical or the academic, with pieces that experiment with form and...
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....
Speaking my mind : common sense answers for Australia
Mundine, Nyunggai Warren
Paper Book
After undergoing heart surgery in 2012 and facing his own mortality, Warren Mundine realised he might not get another chance to say what he thought. By that time he had already delivered dozens of speeches and written numerous newspaper articles but he began to write and speak more frequently and...
Statements from the soul : the moral case for the Uluru Statement from the Heart
Morris, Shireen
Paper Book
'Statements from the Soul sets the standard for conversations not just about the Voice, but the value and urgency of true reconciliation.' -Celina Ribeiro, The Guardian In this ground-breaking collection of essays, diverse religious leaders and thinkers come together to advocate...
Taboo
Scott, Kim
Paper Book
From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin AwardFrom Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two...
Tasmanian aborigines : a history since 1803
Ryan, Lyndall
Paper Book
The story of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania, from the arrival of the first whites to the present. While it contains much that is tragic, it is also a story of resilience and survival in the face of great odds.
Truth-telling : history, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement
Reynolds, Henry
Paper Book
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole...
The Voice to Parliament handbook : all the detail you need
Mayo, Thomas
Paper Book
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means. 'We...
Warra Warra Wai: ; How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell of the coming of the ghost people
Rix, Darren.
Paper Book
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook's arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans. Winner, First Nations History award, Canberra Critics' Circle Awards 2024 Both 250 years late and...
Women & children
Birch, Tony
Paper Book
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum...
Words to sing the world alive : celebrating First Nations languages
McGaughey, Jasmin
Paper Book
Words to Sing the World Alive celebrates First Nations languages from across the continent. Forty First Nation writers and thinkers, journalists and lawyers, artists and astronomers come together to reveal their favourite and significant words. Words that evoke the power of childhood and the...

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