Dropbear is a 2021 collection of poetry and prose by Evelyn Araluen, an Aboriginal poet of the Bundjalung people.

[1] The collection has been described as part of the Indigenous "literary resistance", with Jeanine Leane writing in the Sydney Review of Books that the work "unsettles settler Australia consciousness with power and precision, leaving no colonial tropes or settler platitudes unchallenged or unscathed".

[2] The Stella Prize judges' report described Dropbear as "a breathtaking collection of poetry and short prose which arrests key icons of mainstream Australian culture and turns them inside out, with malice aforethought".

Araluen critiques the aesthetics of the "pastoral" and the canonisation of Australian literary figures like Henry Lawson, Banjo Patterson and Les Murray.

[2][7] John Kinsella wrote in a review for the Sydney Morning Herald that Araluen "plays back conventional devices and tropes, and undoes them so effectively that no colonial shibboleth is left unchallenged or undecoded".