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  • Nguzu Igililmay Yah

    by Paul Ban ...
    From the islands of the Torres Strait to the chambers of Queensland's Parliament, Ivy Trevallion's quiet strength has helped change the course of Australian history.Raised in community and culture, Ivy became the first Torres Strait Islander to qualify as a professional social worker in Queensland. But her true legacy lies in the decades-long fight to achieve legal recognition of traditional ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Piri Piri Mab

    The Journey to Legal Recognition of the Torres Strait Islander Child Rearing Practice

    by Paul Ban ...
    Paul Ban takes readers on an historically important and remarkable journey of the Kupai Omasker Working Party. In Queensland, whilst we have attained legal recognition of Torres Strait Islander traditional child rearing practices, the real driving force behind this world first achievement was a small band of Torres Strait Islanders and a handful of philanthropists who formed the Kupai Omasker ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Offla's Children

    "Offla's courage and resilience has inspired and comforted us throughout our lives. This is how we remember him."So concludes this poignant story of Zoltan Ban, a post-war Hungarian refugee living with mental illness, who desperately struggled to keep his young children after Jean, his English-born wife, died of breast cancer in 1963.Offla, as his children affectionately called him, was a highly ... Read more

    $7.50 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Demon Fish

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  • Finding the Heart of the Nation 2nd edition

    The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues

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  • Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia

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