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    Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
    Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
    Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
    Audiobook10 hours

    Growing up Aboriginal in Australia

    Written by Anita Heiss

    Narrated by Gregory J Fryer, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lisa Maza and

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    About this audiobook

    What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside those from newly discovered writers of all ages. All of the contributors speak from the heart – sometimes calling for empathy, oftentimes challenging stereotypes, always demanding respect.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateSep 20, 2018
    ISBN9781528815086
    Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
    Author

    Anita Heiss

    Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 23 books; non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction and children’s novels. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central New South Wales, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation, and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland. Anita is also the Publisher at Large of Bundyi, an imprint of Simon & Schuster cultivating First Nations talent, and a board member of the National Justice Project and Circa Contemporary Circus. As an artist in residence at La Boite Theatre, she adapted her novel Tiddas for the stage. It premiered at the 2022 Brisbane Festival and was produced by Belvoir St for the Sydney Festival in 2024. Her novel, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, about the Great Flood of Gundagai, won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Indigenous Writer’s Prize and was shortlisted for the 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize and the 2022 ABIA Awards. Anita’s first children’s picture book is Bidhi Galing (Big Rain), also about the Great Flood of Gundagai. Anita enjoys running, eating chocolate and being a creative disruptor.

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    • 3/5
      I found the readings to be fairly educational about growing up indigenous in Australia. Some messages come through consistently.
    • 5/5
      Awesome book. I loved it! It was very well written and gets you thinking about what other people have gone through.
    • 4/5
      This book is challenging and inspiring; every Australian should read this book to get an understanding of the stolen generation, and what it’s like in modern day Australia to grow up aboriginal.
    • 5/5
      Good book to read. Easy to understand and process within