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'In November 1991 Bill Reid heard that there was to be a meeting at Brewarrina Aboriginal Cultural Museum to explore ways for local people, especially children in school, to learn back some of their language heritage, making use of the archival material at AIATSIS. He made sure that he got a lift across from Bourke, from Peter Cooper, then working there for Radio 2WEB. At the museum Bill kept quietly singing a little tune beside me, so infectiously that I was soon singing too, and couldn't wait to ask him what it was. 'That's the curlew's love song!' Then he said with a gleam in his eye, I know the dance for it too'. Terry offered his skills with the video camera, and in next to no time they had arranged to go to a suitable riverbank spot after returning to Bourke, where Bill sang and danced for Peter and for posterity.' (Introduction)
