Toowoomba First Nations Allies

Listening – Learning – Connecting

Tag: politics

  • Belonging

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    Author Peter Read Year 2000 Title Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership Publisher Cambridge University Press Notes This extraordinary book explores the feelings of non-Aboriginal Australians as they articulate their […]

  • Settling with Indigenous People

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    Author Kathryn Shain, Lisa Palmer, Marcia Langton, Maureen Tehan, Odette Mazel Year 2006 Title Settling with Indigenous People: Modern treaty and agreement-making Publisher Federation Press Notes Settling with Indigenous People describes […]

  • Treaty

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    Author George Williams, Harry Hobbs Year 2020 (2nd Edition) Title Treaty Publisher Federation Press Notes The leading book on the treaty debate in Australia has been fully revised. The second […]

  • Welcome to Country

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    Author Marcia Langton Year 2021 (2nd Edition) Title Welcome to Country Publisher Hardie Grant Notes Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country 2nd edition is the essential follow-up to Australia’s landmark travel […]

  • How to be a First Nations Ally

    How to be a First Nations Ally

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    Amnesty International Australia has published a useful guide: How to be a First Nations Ally (9 MB PDF).

  • Newsletter – September 2024

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    Thanks to editor, Matt Wilson, and other contributors for this edition which has information about TFNA activities and upcoming events that may interest members.

  • Who are the Stolen Generations?

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    The Stolen Generations refers to a period in Australia’s history where Aboriginal children were removed from their families through government policies. This happened from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. There […]

  • Decolonizing Society

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    Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that the predominant impulses which drive middle-class settler activists to support Indigenous people cannot lead to successful alliances and meaningful social change unless they are significantly transformed through a process of both public political action and critical self-reflection.

  • Black lives, white law

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    Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more likely.