An introduction to Indigenous Australia written from within lived political and cultural struggle.

Structured as a series of lectures, the book addresses history, law, language, education, health, and resistance, insisting on sovereignty, continuity, and the centrality of Indigenous knowledge systems against colonial narratives of absence or deficiency.

Mudrooroo frames history as an active site of contestation, foregrounding dispossession, survival, and cultural endurance. The book belongs to a mid-1990s moment in Australian publishing when Indigenous intellectual work began to circulate more widely beyond activist and academic contexts, while retaining its confrontational clarity.

Edition note: First Australian paperback edition, first published 1995. Printed in Australia. Light shelf wear; interior clean.