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Languages do not spread in a vacuum. They are not self-contained linguistic events but contingent on the history or prehistory more broadly, as Heggarty (2015:600) describes it, the result of:

[p]rocesses in the real-world context – demographic growth or collapse, migrations, conquest, or more subtle socio-political and cultural changes – are the cause; they alone determine entirely the linguistic effects of divergence, diversity and convergence.'

 (Introduction)

'A team of anthropologists at UQ - Prof. David Trigger, Kim de Rijke, Tony Jefferies and Charmaine Jones - and former Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies Michael Williams recently produced a DVD which contains the digitised ethnographic records of Caroline Tennant-Kelly. These records from the 1930s were recently recovered Kim de Rijke and Tony Jefferies, and they have now been digitised and indexed for the benefit of native title researchers and Aboriginal communities. ' (Source: The University of Queensland website)