Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 [Review Essay] People of the Rivermouth : The Joborr Texts of Frank Gurrmanamana
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'Every once in a while, a scholarly work comes along which, by its very innovation, resists comparison with existing works in the same field. People of the Rivermouth is, I consider, such a work. Taking as its foundation a series of texts developed by Anbarra elder Frank Gurrmanamana (itself an innovative and important enough move), People of the Rivermouth is an interactive, multimedia project which combines those texts with historical and ethnographic material on the Anbarra, and biographical material on the unique relationship between Gurrmanamana and his anthropological collaborator, Les Hiatt. The texts become both a metaphorical and an actual narrative thread which ties together the project’s many and varied elements.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 2 2002 Z1505866 2002 periodical issue

    'Tourism is a major industry in Australia, employing six percent of the working population and directly contributing nearly five percent of GDP in the year ending June 20011. Despite setbacks nationally in provision of transportation and internationally with terrorism fears spooking a major source, the tourism industry appears to continue to develop2, and references to visitor surveys point to widespread and continuing interest in cultural tourism and especially Indigenous Australian tourism opportunities. Various federal, state and territory initiatives exist and are being advanced to support various tourism strategies, including, for example, development of websites as gateways to knowledge of visitor opportunities, and a federally-funded Indigenous Tourism Leadership Group, the latter being a ‘whole of government’ initiative involving co-ordination of the work of several departments, and drawing on a wide range of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian experience and interests. The Commonwealth government released this year a discussion paper summarising a variety of proposals as a stage in the development of a ten-year plan.'  (Editorial introduction)

    2002
    pg. 91-93
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