Modelling costs of dementia in Australia: evidence, gaps, and needs.
Abstract With the rapid ageing of the Australian population, dementia has emerged as a major health and economic challenge. Consensus exists that the number of people with dementia will grow significantly because the prevalence is strongly correlated with age. However, there are substantial gaps in our understanding...

Kimberley friction: complex attachments to water-places in Northern Australia.
This article explores water as central to defining complex attachments to place, an approach that is concerned to contribute to discussion beyond water's conceptualisation as a vital and natural resource in need of environmental management. The value of an active discourse and practice that emphasises water as a resource...

Cannibalism: a white colonist fiction?
RECENTLY IN THE Weekend Australian Philip Jones, a distinguished scholar and curator at the Adelaide Museum, deplored Daisy Bates' "insistence on the prevalence of cannibalism in Aboriginal society". He claimed that she "conflated Aboriginal hearsay about cannibalism and mythological accounts". It is hard to fathom why Jones should have...

How many people live on each continent?
Skill: Using a Table NAME: -- Read each question, and write the correct answer. The World's People in 2006 Continents Number of People Asia 4 billion Africa 916 million Europe 730 million North America 520 million South America 380 million Australia/Oceania 33 million...

Who's online?
WHO'S ONLINE? The bard graph shows the percentage of the population that uses the Internet in each region. The pie chart shows the location of Internet users worldwide. North America 73.6% Oceania/Australia 59.5% Europe 48.1% Latin America/Caribbean 24.1% World 21.9% Middle East 21.3% Asia 15.3% Africa 5.3% Note: Table...

The moral lexicon of the Warlpiri people of central Australia.
1. Introduction 2. Words that match 'Good' and 'Bad' 3. Examples of 'Good' and 'Bad' behaviour Good Bad 4. Analysis Proper/Improper Sexual relationships. Affinal reserve. Cannibalism. Generous/Selfish Unaggressive/Aggressive Importunate. Jealous. Pusillanimous. Brave. Homicide. Cooperative/Uncooperative Compassionate. Protecting the weak. Helping relatives. Hard-hearted. Maltreating the weak. Helping relatives. Neglecting, hurting, and...

The poetics of central Australian song.
Abstract: An often cited feature of traditional songs from Central Australia (CA songs) is the obfuscation of meaning. This arises partly from the difficulties of translation and partly from the difficulties in identifying words in song. The latter is the subject of this paper, where I argue it is...

Musical and linguistic perspectives on Aboriginal song.
In the period from 1984 to the present, numerous collections of essays dedicated entirely or partly to Aboriginal song and dance have appeared. (1) Each of these represented a response to particular stimuli. Three publications, Songs of Aboriginal Australia, The Politics of Dance and Landscapes of Indigenous Performance grew...

Discontinuous dreaming networks: analyses of variability in Australian pre-historic petroglyphs.
Abstract. This paper analyses the spatial variation within a corpus of pre-Historic petroglyphs, the Panaramitee, which has been represented in the literature as a homogeneous pan-Australian 'style'. Correspondence analysis and group average cluster analysis found that there were five regional groups that can be distinguished from each other in...

Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, song and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land.
Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, song and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land Fiona Magowan and Karl Neuenfeldt (editors) 2005 Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, vii+171 pp, ISBN 987 0 85575 493 8 There are different ways of understanding a per-formance. One...