So, I've moved to Australia from the UK about 8 months ago. I have a wonderful Australian fiancee and it's an awesome country, with great weather, food and people (but too many spiders).

I now realise though that I know very little of its history post colonisation. We aren't taught it in school in the UK apart from the fact that people left the UK for it at various points. The more I watch TV and listen to decent radio (thanks Triple J!) the more I realise aboriginal people are still at a disadvantage and some pretty terrible things were done (e.g. the 'stolen' generation).

So my question is, what books would Reddit recommend as an introduction to the history of Australia post colonisation? I don't want to be ignorant of the issues that eventually I'll be expected to vote on, and as a teacher I feel like I need to better understand some of the students I'm expected to teach.

Thanks for your help folks :)