Contents: Wattle tree town / Beatrice Ballangarry -- Public notice / Fabienne Bayet -- A handful of beans; The black rabbit; Johnny cake days / John Clark -- Mullian-ga / Ted Fields -- Way to forget / Richard Frankland -- Guilty as charged / Harold Hunt -- Wings / Catriona McKenzie -- Songs we sing / Joh Muk Muk Burke -- The master race; Mammon; Mammon II: The poor must be apprehended / Bruce Pascoe -- Singing Bonny M's song / Rosemary Plummer -- Timor ponies; The old songman / Bob Randall -- Stories of an Aboriginal researcher; The clever ones; The hunters; Going for goanna / Bill Rosser -- Finders keepers; Black knight, black night; Millie; Snow domes / Janice Slater -- The wool pickers; Uncle Jacko / Alf taylor -- Westies vs Bungala 1981 / Jared Thomas -- On my own / Rosemary van den Berg -- In the yard and round the house / Herb Wharton -- The chinky apple tree; When devils call / Alexis Wright
Summary
Collection of stories from 29 of Australia's finest Aboriginal story tellers. Cuts across urban and outback settings - sometimes poignant, sometimes funny
