Issue 1

Editorial

1

Articles

Nurlu songs from the West Kimberley: an introduction
Ray Keogh

2

Creative (ir)regularities: the intermeshing of text and melody in performance of Central Australian song
Linda Barwick

12

Research Communications

An overview of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music, 1988
Guy Tunstill

29

Is it hands-on or hands-off? Research into the availability and accessibility of micro-computers for Aboriginal school children
Marilyn Fleer

31

Curriculum development in Aboriginal studies: a Yanangu case study
Kevin Keeffe

36

Comment

45

News and information

50

Obituaries

68

• Donald Graham Jupurrula
• Donald C. Laycock
• Father Anthony Peile SAC

Book Reviews

73

Issue 2

Editorial

1

Articles

Ideas linking Aborigines and Fuegians: from Cook to the Kulturkreis school
Philip Jones

2

The interpretive framework of Wardaman rock art: a preliminary report
Francesca Merlan

14

Contemporary island use in the west Kimberley, Western Australia, and its implications for archaeological site survival
Sue O’Connor

25

Population increase, intensification or a result of preservation? Explaining site distribution patterns on the coast of Queensland
M.J. Rowland

32

Aboriginal deaths in custody and social construction: a response to the view that there is no such thing as Aboriginal suicide
Joseph Reser

43

Research Communications

Ned lives!
Debbie Rose

51

A colonial image: penetrating the reality of the message
Nicolas Peterson

59

Archaeology of an Aboriginal historic site: recent research at the Collarenebri Aboriginal cemetery
Graeme Ward, Brian Egloff and Luke Godwin

62

Skin infestations and infections in Aboriginal child inpatients of Royal Darwin Hospital
Mark Ferson, Alan Walker and Kay Withnall

68

News and information

72

Book Reviews

75

Comment

95

Obituaries

98

• Professor W.R. Geedes
• Tom Brady
• Don McCaskill