Ngoonjook Edition 23

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:

• Wellspring of knowledge by Marie-Elena Ellis

Part 1: Views from the Northern Territory

• Maintaining Australian Indigenous languages: get serious about it, before it is too late by Dana Ober
• Gapuwiyak: our learning journey by Harry Brown
• Community versus campus by Stephen Anderson
• Galiwin’ku Dh’wumirr Djorra by Graham Lymbery
• 'It won’t matter soon, we’ll all be dead’: endangered languages and action research. Wadeye Aboriginal Languages Project by Lysbeth Ford and Maree Klesch
• Back to the future: reflections of an adult educator by Jack Frawley

Part 2: Views from elsewhere

• From Batchelor to the Bantustans—leg in the journey to post colonialism by Ailsa Purdon
• The learning journey by Karen Gillespie
• From south east Arnhem to south east Asia by Richard Geeves
• East Timor: community self-management in a new State by Rod Nixon
• The Highland Children’s Education Project, Cambodia and the Remote Area Teacher Education Program, Australia—some connections by Ron Watt