Issue 1

Editorial:  Geoffrey Gray

1

Articles

James Cowan and the white quest for the black self
Mitchell Rolls | abstract

2

From 'Australia Aborigines' to 'white Australians'
Cora Thomas | abstract

21

The forlorn hope:  Bennelong and Yemmerrawannie go to England
Jack Brook | abstract

36

Sizing up prehistory: sample size and composition of artefact assemblages
Peter Hiscock | abstract

48

Research reports

Technological change in Wardman Country: a report on the 1999 field season
Chris Clarkson

Correspondence

A Dutch influence on Nhanda?:  A reply to Blevins
Rupert Gerritsen

70

A Dutch influence on Nhanda?:  Malya Kanagga!
Juliette Blevins

75

Book Reviews

78

News and Information

87

Obituary:  Frank Flynn

93

Issue 2

Editorial:  Richard Davis

1

Articles

Anthropology and public policy: an introductory comment  
Kingsley Palmer

1

'Never ask a question unless you know the answer': anthropology and the formation of public policy
Kingsley Palmer | abstract

4

Can quality independent research in Indigenous affairs be influential? Personal relections on the Reeves Land Rights Inquiry and its aftermath
Jon Altman | abstract

12

Anthropology's contribution to public policy formulation: the imagines other
Julie Finlayson | abstract

18

Abrogating responsibility? Applied anthropology, Vesteys, Aboriginal labour, 1944-1946
Geoffrey Gray | abstract

27

Homeswest versus Aborigines: housing discrimination in Western Australia
Quentin Beresford | abstract

40

Conceptualising Aboriginality: reading AO Neville's Australia's Coloured Minority
Alan Charlton | abstract

47

Correspondence

The Aboriginal Morton Bay fishery: two things I still know—a response to Ross and Coghill
Ian Walters

61

The Aboriginal Mortom Bay fishery: using archaeological evidence to reply to Walters
Anne Ross

63

Book Reviews

66

News and Information

75

Obituaries

82

Graeme Pretty

Ken Hale

Condolences