Jackie Huggins

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Jackie Huggins, Is That You, Ruthie? is a remarkable memoir that recounts, with characteristic humour and honesty, a dormitory girl's life on the Mission. 'Is that you ...?' Matron's voice would ring out across the dormitory. In that pause, sixty little girls would stop in their tracks, waiting...

Auntie Rita is a revised edition of the bestselling and award-winning memoir of Aboriginal woman Rita Huggins, first published in 1994. Rita battled dispossession, poverty, personal tragedy, and racism to create a rich and meaningful life, lived out during the momentous changes of the 20th century. 'Most people call me Auntie Rita, whites as well as Aboriginal people. Auntie is...

A new edition of Murri historian and activist Jackie Huggins' seminal Tiddaist classic, featuring timely and compelling speeches and essays. The pieces in this seminal collection represent almost four decades of writing by historian and activist Jackie Huggins. These essays, speeches and interviews combine both the public and the personal in a bold trajectory tracing one Murri woman's journey towards...

It has been over 100 years since our father was born, 80 years since Father enlisted in the AIF, and over 60 years since he died. How do we go beyond what we knew from our Mother's stories of him? The past, present and future need to be spoken about and shared. - Jackie Huggins Born an only child in...