Issue 1

Editorial

1

Articles

Murnong—Microseris scapigera: a study of a staple food of Victorian Aborigines
Beth Gott

2

Some aspects of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal notions of responsibility to non-human animals
David H. Bennett

19

Blaikman Tok: changing attitudes towards Torres Strait creole
Anna Shnukal

25

Composite stencil art: elemental or specialised?
Grahame L. Walsh

34

Aboriginal perceptions of courts and police: a Victorian study
Gregory Lyons

45

Aborigines and environment in Holocene Australia: changing paradigms
M.J. Rowland

62

Research Communications

We spell it GOONIYANDI: notes on the new Gunian orthography
David Street and Topsy Chestnut

78

Nutrient composition of bush foods
V. Cherikoff and J.C. Brand

78

A note on early sound recordings in the AIAS archive
Alice Moyle

79

Queensland ethnobotanical records: a computerised information retrieval and storage system
Barbara S. Langevard

80

The Library of the Institute of Aboriginal Studies
Egon F. Kunz

81

Grants awarded by AIATSIS Council in October 1983

82

Research proposals awarded by AIATSIS in October 1983

83

News and Information

84

Book Reviews

86

Issue 2

Editorial: Erci Willmot

1

Articles

The size of the Aboriginal population
A. Gray and L.R. Smith

2

Aboriginal infant mortality, 1976-81
Neil Thomson

10

Modes of formal performance in societies without writing: the case of Aboriginal Australia
Margaret Clunies Ross

16

Judy Inglis Memorial Prize

27

Acoustics of the Australian didjeridu
N. H. Fletcher

28

Research Communications

Re-directions in cognitive research with Australian Aborigines
L.Z. Klich

38

Heat treatment of siliceous rocks and its implications for Australian prehistory
J.J. Flenniken and J. Peter White

43

Listening to Aborigines: some communication requirements for non-Aboriginal-Aboriginal contact
G. Davidson, B. Hansford and B. Moriarty

48

On ‘The role of the Institute in land claims research’
Gill Cowlishaw

51

Reply to Dr Cowlishaw
L.R. Hiatt

53

News and Information

ROM in Canberra
Stephen Wild

55

Grants awarded by Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Council, 1982-83

60

New publications

62