Journal of Northern Territory History 2025

Northern territory historical studies a journal of history heritage and archaeology

Articles

Every Time I Hear the Wind Blow: Songs and Other Music Made in Response to Cyclone Tracy 

Steven Farram

Conquering Distance and Seizing Opportunity: The Contribution of Immigration to the Adelaide to Darwin Railway

Jane Munday

Jewish Life in the Northern Territory: 1880 to 2025

Vida Goodvach

The Leeds Mercury Article and Speculations on a Dutch Settlement in Central Australia

Karen Cook

    Book Reviews

Robyn Smith, Licence to Kill: Massacre Men of Australia’s North

Peter Read

     Clare Wright, Naku Dharuk: The Bark Petitions, How

     the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of 

     Australian Democracy

     David Carment

Li-Yanyuwa Li-Wirdiwalangu (Yanyuwa Elders), Liam M Brady, John Bradley and Amanda Kearney, Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories) Narratives of Rock Art from Yanyuwa Country in Northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria

Diana Wood Conroy

Barry Judd and Katherine Ellinghaus, Enlightened Aboriginal Futures

Glenn Morrison

Andrew Crouch, Connecting the North: From the Diaries of the Overland Telegraph Expeditioners

Lyndon Megarrity

Jane Munday, The Meeting Place: A Social History of the Adelaide to Darwin Railway

Stephen Palmer


Allan O’Neil, Midwives, Merchants and Miners: The Hang Gongs of Darwin and Creswick – An Australian Family

Natalie Fong


Jared Archibald, Caddie Brain and Paige Taylor, Cyclone Tracy – a Cyclone for Christmas

[Janie] Elizabeth Anne Mason 


Lyndon Megarrity, Rex Patterson: A Voice for the North

Rolf Gerritsen


Obituaries

Dr Lyn Reid (1940-2025)

Dr Judy Opitz (1924-2025)


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