ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Indigenous Australian literature

Indigenous Australian literature is all the stories, poems, plays and other things people write that come from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who lived in Australia for a very long time before anyone else got there.

These stories are really important because they tell about their traditional beliefs, culture and way of life. Some of the really old stories tell about how the world was made and how things happened.

Indigenous Australian literature is cool because it is different from other stories we read in books. The writers talk about the things that are important in their own lives and their own experiences, and people can learn a lot about their culture and way of life from reading their work.