Kine, Kin and Country - the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory 1911-1966

The Victoria River District of the Northern Territory (NT) exerts a strong attraction on the people who have lived and worked there. Despite the harshness of the District’s climate, its remoteness from civilised facilities, its loneliness and its isolation, Europeans write of it with admiration and affection. Aborigines incorporate into their ritual song cycles descriptions of the country and its bounty. They acknowledge, understand, and work with the climate. Few people having had the experience of living in the District ever go away with a negative impression

The Gateway and the Gatekeepers : An examination of Darwin's relationship with Asia and Asian, 1992-1993

The acceptance by the Federal Government that Darwin's geographic position might give it a special role in linking Australia to East Asia was acknowledged in late 1993

"We had good meals, plenty of nice vegetables, plenty of fish, plenty of ducks and geese..." : food and eating in outback Territory 1900-1950

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).Date:1997A talk given in 1994 in the State Library of the Northern Territory's 'Under the Banyan Tree' lunchtime lecture series

Growing up in the pastoral frontier : conception, birth and childhood on cattle stations in the Northern Territory, 1920-1950

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).Date:1989Continued in: Recreation and Entertainment on Northern Territory Pastoral Stations, 1910-1950

Categorical effects in children's colour search.

In adults, visual search for a colour target is facilitated if the target and distractors fall in different colour categories (e.g. Daoutis, Pilling, & Davies, in press). The present study explored category effects in children's colour search. The relationship between linguistic colour categories and perceptual categories was addressed by comparing native speakers of languages differing in the number of colour terms. Experiment 1 compared English and Kwanyama (Namibian) children aged 4 to 7 years on a visual search task, using target-distractor pairs (blue-green, blue-purple, red-pink) for which the Kwanyama did not have distinct names. The presence of a category advantage in the English, but not in the Kwanyama, suggested that linguistic boundaries may affect search performance. Experiment 2 examined visual search performance in the green-yellow and the blue-green region, in English and Himba (Namibian) 6-year-olds. The number of distractors was varied to assess search efficiency. Cross-category search was more efficient than within-category search in the English group, but this advantage was absent in the Himba. Increasing the number of distractors affected search speed in the English group, but not in the Himba. Overall, these findings suggest cross-language differences in categorical effects on colour search, but also in the way the children performed the search. The nature of the category effect in search is discussed with respect to these findings. </p