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What the Colonists Never Knew paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up Aboriginal in Sydney, alongside the colonists, from 1788 to the present.Peter Read's exploration of the history of Aboriginal Sydney is interwoven with Dennis Foley's memories of his own Gai-mariagal country, taking readers on a journey through the region's past. This book offers an honest account of the disappointment, pain and terror experienced by Sydney's First Peoples, and celebrates the survival of their spirit and their culture

AbstractIndigenous employment has been the subject of numerous policies in Australia, with governments aiming to increase the workforce participation rate amongst Indigenous people in recent years. Indigenous‐owned businesses, formally defined as businesses that are at least 50% Indigenous‐owned, have been demonstrated in previous research to maintain substantially higher levels of proportional Indigenous employment than non‐Indigenous businesses. This suggests that Indigenous‐owned businesses maintain work environments that are more supportive of and conducive to Indigenous employment, meriting the influence of Indigenous‐owned businesses' workplace practices in future Indigenous employment policy design. Using administrative data from two Indigenous business registries (Black Business Finder and Supply Nation), this paper provides an updated empirical analysis of the Indigenous business sector. This paper demonstrates that Indigenous‐owned businesses of all sizes, industries, locations and profit statuses consistently average proportional Indigenous employment rates higher than the Indigenous proportional population. Of all the people employed in Supply Nation‐listed businesses, over 35% are Indigenous. The potential impact of the Indigenous Procurement Policy is illustrated by differentials in the size of businesses and their capacity to employ Indigenous staff. This paper provides analysis of the Indigenous business sector that can inform future policy direction for both Indigenous employment and Indigenous business policies.

AbstractPrevious research demonstrates that businesses that are Indigenous‐owned are far more likely to employ Indigenous people than non‐Indigenous‐owned businesses (Hunter, 2015). The majority of the literature on Indigenous employment uses a deficit discourse, describing factors that prevent or exclude Indigenous people from non‐Indigenous‐owned organisations. There is markedly less literature using a strength‐based approach, detailing how Indigenous‐owned businesses create workplaces without barriers to Indigenous employment. Through 32 semistructured interviews with Indigenous business owners, managers, and Indigenous employees of Indigenous‐owned businesses, this paper provides insights into how participants' businesses create workplaces that are more supportive of, and conducive to, Indigenous employment. This paper finds that Indigenous approaches to governance inform an organisational level of cultural competence, which creates tailored and specific practices that support better Indigenous employment outcomes. This resonates with the concept of Indigenous ways of "knowing, being, and doing," and how this framework encompasses participants' approaches to business operations. In the light of increasing public and private policy commitments to improve Indigenous employment outcomes, it is imperative that the Indigenous business sector's best practice inform said policies, given its successes. However, inherent in these findings are broader discussions into more systemic and societal issues that go beyond workplace policy.

ANNA MAY WONG'S LUCKY SHOES: 1939 AUSTRALIA THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ART DECO DIVA, DERHAM GROVES (2011) Ames, IA: Culicidae Press, 103 pp., ISBN: 978-1-257-71315-8, p/bk, AUS$39.95
WHACKADEMIA: AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF THE TROUBLED UNIVERSITY, RICHARD HIL (2012)
Sydney: New South Press Press, ISBN: 9781742232911; 240 pp., p/bk, RRP AUD$34.99
CAMOUFLAGE AUSTRALIA: ART, NATURE, SCIENCE AND WAR, ANN ELIAS(2011) Sydney: Sydney University Press, 239 pp., ISBN: 9781920899738, p/bk, AUD$60.00
WITNESSES TO WAR: THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN
CONFLICT REPORTING, FAY ANDERSON AND RICHARD TREMBATH (2011) Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 500 pp., ISBN: 2780522856446, p/bk, AUS$36.99, ISBN: 9780522860221, e-publication.
ENDING WAR, BUILDING PEACE, LYNDA-ANN BLANCHARD AND LEAH CHAN (EDS) (2009) Sydney: Sydney University
Press, 187 pp., ISBN: 781920899431, p/bk, AUS$35.00
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE: WRITINGS ON CRICKET AND ITS DISCONTENTS, GIDEON HAIGH (2010) Melbourne: Victory Books, 386 pp., ISBN: 978-0-522-85787-0, p/bk, AUD$ 34.99
RE-AWAKENING LANGUAGES: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE REVITALISATION
OF AUSTRALIA'S INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES, JOHN HOBSON, KEVIN LOWE, SUSAN POETSCH AND MICHAEL WALSH (EDS) 2010 Sydney: Sydney University Press, 457 pp., ISBN: 9781920899554, p/bk, AUS$65.00.
GLOBAL TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE: FROM HARD TECHNOLOGY TO SOFT TECHNOLOGY, ZHOUYING JIN (2011)
2nd ed., Bristol, UK: Intellect, 366 pp., ISBN: 978-1-84150-376-9, p/bk, AUS$69.95