The Wire

Not so long ago Aboriginal stories were published without so much as consulting the communities they came from. But Australian publishing has been growing up, and more recently, a set of guidelines has been helping to bring a diverse set of Aboriginal and Islander voices into the spotlight.

Terri Janke is a lawyer and author. Back in 2007, she created a set of ‘Protocols for Producing Indigenous Australian Writing’.She says that these protocols have been helping to bring indigenous voices into the spotlight to tell their own stories.Now, she says, we’ve entered a new phase of Australian writing that’s welcoming a more diverse set of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices.