Issue 1

Editorial

1

Articles

The moral lexicon of the Warlpiri people of central Australia
LR Hiatt | abstract

4

Mobs and bosses: Structures of Aboriginal sociality
Patrick Mullins | abstract

31

Recognising victims without blaming them: A moral contest? About Peter Sutton’s ‘The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Policy in Australia since the 1970s’ and Gillian Cowlishaw’s replies
Maïa Ponsonnet | abstract

43

'You would have loved her for her lore’: The letters of Daisy Bates
Bob Reece | abstract

51

What potential might Narrative Therapy have to assist Indigenous Australians reduce substance misuse?
Violet Bacon | abstract

71

Bone points from the Adelaide River, Northern Territory
Sally Brockwell, Kim Akerman | abstract

83

A different look: Comparative rock-art recording from the
Torres Strait using computer enhancement techniques
Liam M Brady | abstract

98

Sources of bias in the Murray Black Collection: Implications for palaeopathological analysis
Sarah Robertson | abstract

116

Resource

1

AP Elkin interviewed aout Daisy Bates
Bob Reece

131

Research Reports

A late Pleistocene site on Watarrka Plateau, Central Australia
June Ross and Michael A Smith

138

Book reviews

144

News and information

156

Obituaries

165

Issue 2

Editorial

1

Articles

Musical and linguistic perspectives on Aboriginal song
Linda Barwick, Bruce Birch and Nicholas Evans | abstract

1

Iwaidja Jurtbirrk songs: Bringing language and music together
Linda Barwick, Bruce Birch, Nicholas Evans | abstract

6

Morrdjdjanjno ngan-marnbom story nakka, ‘songs that turn me into a story teller’: The morrdjdjanjno of western Arnhem Land
Murray Garde | abstract

35

Sung and spoken: An analysis of two different versions of a Kun-barlang love song
Isabel O’Keeffe (nee Bickerdike) | abstract

46

Simplifying musical practice in order to enhance local identity: Rhythmic modes in the Walakandha wangga (Wadeye, Northern Territory)
Allan Marett | abstract

63

‘Too long, that wangga’: Analysing wangga texts over time
Lysbeth Ford | abstract

76

Flesh with country: Juxtaposition and minimal contrast in the construction and melodic treatment of jadmi song texts
Sally Treloyn | abstract

90

The poetics of central Australian Aboriginal song
Myfany Turpin | abstract

100

Budutthun ratja wiyinymirri: Formal flexibility in the Yolŋu manikay tradition and the challenge of recording a complete repertoire
Aaron Corn with Neparrŋ a Gumbula | abstract

116

Australian Aboriginal song language: So many questions, so little to work with
Michael Walsh | abstract

128

Research Reports

Linking ecosystem services to well-being: A case study of Aboriginal communities in northern Australia
Kamaljit Kaur

145

Comment

A Kimberley concept of socially useful work
Richard WC Murison

144

Book Reviews

150

News and Information

191

Obituaries

199