In this article I examine the ways in which relationships between people and place constitute
the factors that were influential in the historical development of a particular Aboriginal …

Fire has always fascinated our culture in its potential for both gentle comfort and
uncontrollable destruction-the focus, the hearth centre of home contrasted with wild fire …

The traditional rights to land in the Victoria River District (VRD) and neighbouring areas of
the Kimberley Region of Western Australia are the reflection of different traditions of long …

This paper explores variation and change in Aboriginal people's connections to places, and
place‐related identity, as a function of their differential historical relationship to a town …

'There is a part of me that still lingers along the banks of the Cox's beneath that dark and
forbidding expanse of water'. These are the words of Owen Pearce, a descendent of old …

Throughout my life as a plant ecologist, I have yearned to'see'the grasslands and grassy
woodlands as they were in Australia before 1788.1 felt that I might have had the smallest …

IN the second of his 1968 Boyer Lectures, entitled" The Great Australian Silence', WEH
Stanner chided historians for ignoring the Aborigines, for being the high priests of what he …

Nearly 40 years ago an important historical project was launched at The Australian National
University (ANU). It came to be called Aboriginal history. It was the name of both a periodical …

Historically, the interests of Aboriginal people in Queensland have been subjugated by
those of the white majority. This has resulted in a degree of powerlessness which is alien to …