Ngoonjook Edition 20

Ngoonjook seeks to make relevant material available to an Indigenous readership and to all those interested in Indigenous Australian issues. Themes explored include: education, health, cultural identity, natural and cultural resource management, the arts and linguistics.

Articles in this issue:

• Pre-contact Aboriginal, and contemporary fire regimes of the savanna landscapes of Northern Australia: patterns, changes And ecological responses by Jeremy Russell-Smith
• Bininj mak balanda kunwale manwurrk-ken by Dean Yibarbuk and Peter Cooke
• Conflagrations: the culture, ecology and politics of landscape burning in the North Kimberly by David Bowman and Tom Vigilante
• Fenn Gap by Olive Veverbrants
• Desert Fish by Olive Veverbrants
• I don’t know you (MacDonnell Ranges) by Carol Mason
• Reconciling cattle, conservation and culture: the challenge of grazing, controlling and communicating about gamba grass by Trevor Howard
• Styphelia in south-east Sydney by Rod Mason and Tim Whiteside
• Living in the sand by Edna Stuart
• A goal for Protected Area management by Willian Freeland
• Caring for Country: the development of a formalised structure for land management on Aboriginal lands withing the Northern Land Council region of the Northern Territory by Michael Storrs and Peter Cooke
• Indigenous Protected Areas: conserving Australia’s biodiversity by Linda Cuttriss
• Dorothy Napangardi: the Girl from Minamina by Christine Nicholls
• Bukbuk, Bemang and Gowarang by Phyllis Wynjorroc, Henry Long, Penny Long, Nikapinni Avalon, Margaret Coleman, Lynette Ranch and Sonia Tidemann
• Buley Rockhole by Anna Dwyer, Sandra George, Shelia Hector, Jimmy Jones, Sandra Numina, Kenny Williams, Natalie Williams and Kathleen Windy
• A wilderness in Australia’s heartland: Newhaven Station by Kate Fitzherbert