References on Fire and Australian Aborigines

• Allan, G.E. 1984. Criteria for the remote sensing of bushfire history, current fuel load and fire behaviour in central Australia, pp.275-280 in [proceedings of] Third Australian Remote Sensing Conference, Queensland, 1984.Allan, Grant E. & Graham F. Griffin. 1986. Fire ecology of the hummock grasslands of central Australia, pp.126-129 in Proceedings of the 4th Australian Rangeland Society Conference. Armidale, NSW. August 24-27, 1986.
• Brandl, M. 1976. Fire and the Australian Aborigines. Fox (ed.) 1976:12-13
• Bunk, Steve. 1988. Science begins to quench the burning question. Territory Digest (September 1988),24-26.
• Catling, P.C. & A.E. Newsome. 1981. Responses of the Australian vertebrate fauna to fire: an evolutionary approach. Gill, Groves & Noble (eds.) 1981:273-310. [p.284 Mala]
• Cleland, John Burton. 1907 Notes on the resistance of the vegetation of Australia to bushfires, and the antiquity of the Australian Aboriginal. Linnean Society of New South Wales -- Proceedings 32.3,554-555. (Peculiarities rendering resistance of vegetation to fire ; Adaptation to arid conditions ; Grounds for attributing considerable antiquity to the presence of fire-producing man)
• de Graaf, M. 1976. Aboriginal use of fire. Fox (ed.) 1976:14-20.
• Fox, R.E. (ed.) 1976. Report on the Use of Fire in National Parks and Reserves. Darwin: Department of the Northern Territory.
• Frith, H.J. 1973. Wildlife Conservation. Australian Natural Science Library. Angus & Robertson.
• Gill, A.M., R.H. Groves & I.R. Noble (eds.) 1981. Fire and the Australian Biota. Canberra: Australian Academy of Science.
• Gould, R.A. 1971. Uses and effects of fire among the Western Desert Aborigines of Australia. Mankind 8:14-24.
• Griffin, G.F. 1981. The role of fire in arid lands. In Bushfires--their Effect on Australian Life and Landscape, ed. by P. Stanbury. Sydney: The Macleay Museum, University of Sydney.
• Griffin, G.F., N.F. Price & H.F. Portlock. 1983. Wildfires in the central Australian rangelands 1970-1980. Journal of Environmental Management 17.
• Griffin, G.F. 1984. Hummock grasslands. In Management of Australian Rangelands, ed. by G.N. Harrington, A.D. Wilson and M.D. Young. Melbourne: CSIRO.
• Griffin, G.F. & M.H. Friedel. 1985. Discontinuous change in central Australia: some implications of major ecological events. Journal of Arid Environments 9:63-80.
• Griffin, Graham F. & Allan, Grant E. 1986. Fire and the management of Aboriginal owned lands in central Australia. In Science and Technology for Aboriginal Development, ed. by Barney D. Foran & Bruce Walker. Alice Springs: CSIRO and Centre for Appropriate Technology. ISBN 0 643 04129 X (CSIRO) ISBN 0 9590953 1 4 (C.A.T.) [unpaginated] Proceedings of TAGAL workshop, Alice Springs, 8-10 October 1985.
• Griffin, G.F., S.R. Morton, G.E. Allan and M.R. Fleming. 1987. Fire-created patch-dynamics for conservation management in the hummock grasslands of central Australia. 10+6pp. offprint from Proc. International Grasslands Symposium, Huhhot, China.
• Hallam, S.J. 1975. Fire and Hearth. Canberra: A.I.A.S.
• Head, Lesley. 1989. Prehistoric Aboriginal impacts on Australian vegetation: an assessment of the evidence. Australian Geographer 20(1) (May 1989),37-46.
• Hetzel, Basil S. & H.J. Frith. 1978. The Nutrition of Aborigines in Relation to the Ecosystem of Central Australia. Papers presented at a Symposium CSIRO 23-26 October 1976 Canberra. [viii]+150pp. Melbourne: CSIRO.
• Hodgkinson, K.C. & G.F. Griffin. 1982. Adaptation of shrub species to fires in the arid zone. In Evolution of the Flora and Fauna of Arid Australia, ed. by W.R. Barker & P.J.M. Greenslade. Adelaide: Peacock Publications.
• Hodgkinson, Ken C. 1983. Influence of fire on arid land vegetation and some implications for management. Messer & Mosley 1983:47-49
• Jones, R. 1969. Fire-stick farming. Aust. Nat. Hist. 16:224-228.
• Kimber, R.G. 1983. Black Lightning: Aborigines and Fire in Central Australia and the Western Desert. Archaeol. Oceania 18:38-45
• Latz, P.K. & G.F. Griffin 1978. Changes in Aboriginal land management in relation to fire and to food plants in central Australia. Hetzel & Frith 1978:76-85.
• Latz, P.K. 1982. Bushfires and bushtucker : Aborigines and plants in central Australia. iv+[428]pp. M.A. (Hons.) Thesis, University of New England, Armidale, NSW.
• Latz, P.K. 1983. The ecological implications of current trends in the use of Aboriginal-controlled arid lands. Messer & Mosley 1983:163-4.
• Loorham, Chris. 1985. The Warlpiri and the rufous hare-wallaby : Aboriginal land rights and wildlife conservation in the Tanami Desert. Habitat (Australia) 13.4(August 1985),8-9.
• Luke, R.H. & A.G. McArthur. 1986 [1978]. Bushfires in Australia. Dept Primary Industry. Forestry and Timber Bureau. CSIRO Division of Forest Research. ISBN 0 642 02341 7 Reprinted with corrections 1986. xii+359pp. Canberra: AGPS.
• Macfarlane, W.V. 1978. Aboriginal desert hunter/gatherers in transition. Hetzel & Frith 1978:49-62.
• Messer, John & Geoff Mosley. (eds.) 1983. What Future for Australia's Arid Lands? Proceedings of the National Arid Lands Conference, Broken Hill, New South Wales, May 21-25, 1982. ISBN 0 85802 074 2 $15 Hawthorn, Vic.: Australian Conservation Foundation.
• Nicholson, Phyllis H. 1981. Fire and the Australian Aborigine--an enigma, Chapter 3, pp.55-76 in Fire and the Australian Biota, ed. by A.M. Gill, R.H. Groves & I.R. Noble. Canberra: Australian Academy of Science.
• Peterson, Nicolas. [1970]. Buluwandi: a Central Australian ceremony for the resolution of conflict. In Australian Aboriginal anthropology: modern studies in the social anthropology of the Australian Aborigines, ed. by Ronald Murray Berndt. [xiv]+341pp. [Nedlands]: Published for the AIAS by the University of Western Australia Press. * Papers presented at Social Anthropology symposium during A.I.A.S. General Meeting, Canberra, May 1968.
• Peterson, Nicolas. 1977. Aboriginal uses of Australian Solanaceae, in The Biology and Taxonomy of the Solanaceae, ed. by J. Hawkes. London: Academic Press. Paper delivered at conference on Biology and Taxonomy of the Solanaceae, Birmingham, 13-17 July 1976. [27pp. mimeo.]
• Peterson, Nicolas. 1978. The traditional pattern of subsistence to 1975. Hetzel & Frith 1978:25-35.
• Ralph, Wayne. [1983?] Fire in the Centre. Ecos pp.3-10

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