Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 [Review Essay] An Aboriginal History of Ayers Rock
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'There are few places in Australia which rival Ayers Rock for sheer visual spectacularity. Justly, because of its starkness and beauty, it has become the major landmark of the fifth continent. Ayers Rock—or Uluru as its Aboriginal name is—is also probably Australia's largest sacred shrine, a visible embodiment of the Dreamtime. In recent years the round, chubby rock has become a major symbol, and target, of the nation's booming tourist industry—worth between five and fifteen million dollars in tourist revenue, as the book states—which in itself must have posed for its traditional owners no mean anguish, seeing hordes of tourists, women and children among them, year after year, day after day trampling all over it. As a belated redress, Aboriginal title to Uluru was finally acknowledged on 11 November 1983 by the Hawke government and a measure of control restored to the local community.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 2 1987 11959313 1987 periodical issue

    'It is with some reluctance that I write an Editorial on the subject of the repainting of Wandjina rock art sites (see paper by Mowljarlai and Peck in this issue). The reluctance stems from the feeling that this is one of those classic cases in Aboriginal affairs where all answers (or no answers) are right. In addition, as is frequently the situation in such cases, even my right to comment will be questioned. In fact this latter aspect goes right to the heart of the matter.' (Editorial introduction)

    1987
    pg. 93-94

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A Rejoinder to Kolig Robert Layton , 1988 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 1988; (p. 82)

'In his review of Uluru: an Aboriginal history of Ayers Rock, Erich Kolig asks whether anyone had ever said that religion is a reflection of traditional economic roles...'

A Rejoinder to Kolig Robert Layton , 1988 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 1988; (p. 82)

'In his review of Uluru: an Aboriginal history of Ayers Rock, Erich Kolig asks whether anyone had ever said that religion is a reflection of traditional economic roles...'

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