NAIDOC Week 2021: Heal Country!
NAIDOC week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is celebrated by all Australians. The NAIDOC Theme for 2021 is “Heal Country, heal our nation”, recognising that Country is inherent to the identity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It is more than a place, it is family, kin, law, lore, ceremony, traditions and language. Keen to learn more? Explore these audiobooks that embrace First Nations' cultural knowledge and understanding of Country as part of Australia's national heritage.
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    • Loving Country

    • A Guide to Sacred Australia
    • By: Bruce Pascoe, Vicky Shukuroglou
    • Narrated by: Bruce Pascoe, Vicky Shukuroglou
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • In Loving Country, co-authors Bruce Pascoe and Vicky Shukurolgou show travellers how to see the country as herself, to know her whole and old story and to find the way to fall in love with her, our home. Listeners are encouraged to discover sacred Australia by reconsidering the accepted history and hearing diverse stories of her Indigenous people. The intention of this audiobook is to foster communication and understanding between all peoples and country, to encourage environmental and social change.

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    • After Story

    • By: Larissa Behrendt
    • Narrated by: Tamala Shelton, Shari Sebbens
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,483 ratings
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    • 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 together and help them reconcile the past. Twenty-five years earlier, the disappearance of Jasmine's older sister devastated their tight-knit community. This tragedy returns to haunt Jasmine and Della when another child mysteriously goes missing on Hampstead Heath. As Jasmine immerses herself in the world of her literary idols - including Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters and Virginia Woolf - Della is inspired to rediscover the wisdom of her own culture and storytelling. But sometimes the stories that are not told can become too great to bear.

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    • Growing up Aboriginal in Australia

    • By: Anita Heiss
    • Narrated by: Gregory J Fryer, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lisa Maza, Shari Sebbens, Tamala Shelton, Tony Briggs
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 292 ratings
    • 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.

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    • Too Much Lip

    • By: Melissa Lucashenko
    • Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 603 ratings
    • ‘Wisecracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things - her hometown and prison. But now her Pop is dying, and she’s an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley. Kerry plans to spend 24 hours, tops, over the border. She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of grabbing on to people. Old family wounds open as the Salters fight to stop the development of their beloved river. And the unexpected arrival on the scene of a good-looking dugai fella intent on loving her up only adds more trouble - but then trouble is Kerry’s middle name.

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    • My Place

    • By: Sally Morgan
    • Narrated by: Melodie Reynolds
    • Length: 17 hrs
    • Release date: 14-06-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace. What started as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Place is a moving account of a search for truth into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.

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    • Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

    • River of Dreams
    • By: Anita Heiss
    • Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • Set on timeless Wiradyuri country, where the life-giving waters of the rivers can make or break dreams, and based on devastating true events, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) is an epic story of love, loss, and belonging.The powerful Murrmbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its wake. It is a stark reminder that while the river can give life, it can just as easily take it away. Wagadhaany is one of the lucky ones. She survives. But is her life now better than the fate she escaped? Forced to move away from her miyagan, she walks through each day with no trace of dance in her step, her broken heart forever calling her back home to Gundagai.

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    • Dark Emu

    • Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
    • By: Bruce Pascoe
    • Narrated by: Bruce Pascoe
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,696 ratings
    • Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia's past is required.

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    • Song of the Crocodile

    • By: Nardi Simpson
    • Narrated by: Nardi Simpson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • Darnmoor is the home of the Billymil family, three generations who have lived in this 'gateway town'. Race relations between Indigenous and settler families are fraught, though the rigid status quo is upheld through threats and soft power rather than the overt violence of yesteryear. As progress marches forwards, Darnmoor and its surrounds undergo rapid social and environmental changes, but as some things change, some stay exactly the same.

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    • Tell Me Why

    • The Story of My Life and My Music
    • By: Archie Roach
    • Narrated by: Archie Roach
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 713 ratings
    • Roach was only two years old when he was forcibly removed from his family. Brought up by a series of foster parents until his early teens, his world imploded when he received a letter that spoke of a life he had no memory of. In this intimate, moving, and often shocking memoir, Archie’s story is an extraordinary odyssey through love and heartbreak, family and community, survival and renewal - and the healing power of music. Overcoming enormous odds to find his story and his people, Archie voices the joy, pain, and hope he found on his path through song to become the legendary singer-songwriter and storyteller that he is today - beloved by fans worldwide.

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    • Australia Day

    • By: Stan Grant
    • Narrated by: Stan Grant
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. Stan talks about our country, about who we are as a nation, about the indigenous struggle for belonging and identity in Australia, and what it means to be Australian. A sad, wise, beautiful, reflective and troubled book, Australia Day asks the questions that have to be asked, that no else seems to be asking. Who are we? What is our country? How do we move forward from here?

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    • Top End Girl

    • By: Miranda Tapsell
    • Narrated by: Miranda Tapsell, James Colley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • From Kakadu to Cannes, Miranda Tapsell is one of Australia's favourite actors. A proud Larrakia woman, she built a stellar career onstage and shot to fame after growing up in the Northern Territory. Even though she moved south to become an actor, the Territory has never left her. It's the place she goes to when she want to feel whole again. In this engaging and thought-provoking memoir, Top End Girl, Miranda shares the path she took to create a moving film about re-connection to family and culture at the same time as she was planning her own wedding.

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    • Still

    • By: Matt Nable
    • Narrated by: Johnny Carr
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • Darwin, Summer, 1963. The humidity sat heavy and thick over the town as Senior Constable Ned Potter looked down at a body that had been dragged from the shallow marshland. He didn't need a coroner to tell him this was a bad death. He didn't know then that this was only the first. Or that he was about to risk everything looking for answers. Still is an evocative, pause-resisting thriller from a brilliant Australian writer.

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    • The Boy from the Mish

    • Ready When You Are
    • By: Gary Lonesborough
    • Narrated by: Meyne Wyatt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • A funny and heart-warming coming-of-age story, set in a rural Australian community, about 17-year-old Jackson finding the courage to explore who he is, even if it scares him. It's a hot summer, and life's going all right for Jackson and his family on the Mish. Jackson's Aunty and annoying little cousins visit from the city - but this time a mysterious boy with a troubled past comes with them.... As their friendship evolves, Jackson must confront the changing shapes of his relationships with his friends, family and community. And he must face his darkest secret - a secret he thought he'd locked away for good.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.