Issue 1

Editorial

1

Articles

The old paternalism: Queensland land rights from a Northern Territory perspective
Frank McKeown

2

Pacific Islanders and Torres Strait 1860 1940
Anna Shnukal

14

The articulation of style and social structure in Australian Aboriginal art
Claire Smith

28

Support for conservation of rock imagery in Australia: results of the second two years of the Institute’s Rock Art Protection Program
Graeme K Ward

35

Doubtful dates for Karolta engravings
Alan Watchman

51

Further support for the antiquity of South Australian rock engravings
Ronald I Dorn and Margaret Nobbs

56

Composition, formation and age of some Australian silica skins
Alan Watchman

61

Delamere 3: further excavations at Yiwarlarlay (Lightning Brothers Site), Northern Territory
Ian McNiven, Bruno David and Josephine Flood

67

World view, language and the ‘neo-Whorfians’: a reply to McConvell
Margaret S Bain

74

Research Reports

Initial radiocarbon determinations from Nurrabullgin
Bruno David

77

Book Reviews

80

News and information

102

Obituaries

106

Janet Mathews

Issue 2

Editorial

1

Articles

The Wentworth Lecture: Aborigines and policing: Aboriginal solutions from Northern Territory communities
Marcia Langton

2

Culture and economy in border regions: the Torres Strait case
Bill Arthur

15

The dominant female: politics in the local Aboriginal community
Edward R Davis

34

Publish or perish?: observations on the reasons for writing in Aboriginal languages
Mary-Anne Gale

42

Contemporary problems of the Northern and Far Eastern peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in an Australian perspective
Vladimir Kabo

49

Research Reports

Hearing loss in urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander schoolchildren
Bradley McPherson and Elizabeth Knox

60

Wurdayak/Baman (Life History) Photo Collection: report on the setting up of a life history photo collection at the Djomi Museum, Maningrida
Roslyn Poignant

71

Mintaba: an evaluation report of the Jurnkurakurr mud brick training program, Tennant Creek, 1989-90
Keith Gasteen

78

Settlement patterns in the Kakadu wetlands: initial data on site size and shape
Peter Hiscock, Fiona Mowat and Daryl Guse

84

Book Reviews

90

Comment

112

News and information

117

Obituaries

Noel Malcolm Wallace

127