 The collection for decades was politically unacceptable for publication in Australia and the United Kingdom.A part of confronting photographs of this collection (90) was originally published in Germany in the 1980s  under the "Bumerang und Bodenschätze" title and , in 2006, published as a nonfictional book by Dingo Books in Australia.In 2019, Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) academic and filmmaker John Mandelberg released a documentary film, "Totem & Ore", inspired by, not replicating the Wongar’s book.