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...
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 ideas to help us change the world
Callaghan, Paul Raymond
Paper Book
Drawing on ancient Aboriginal wisdom, a leading Indigenous Australian healer and an Elder show you how to find contentment, purpose, and healing by learning to reconnect with your story--and ultimately the universe. Dr. Paul Callaghan belongs to the land of the Worimi people who live north...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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