Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Authors -- Introduction -- An overview of Australian traditional languages -- Yolngu language habitat: Ecology, identity and law in an Aboriginal society -- Indigenous languages: Transitions from the past to the present -- Language maintenance, shift - and planning -- Linguistic responses to contact: Pidgins and creoles -- Aboriginal English: Restructured variety for cultural maintenance -- Aboriginal language habitat and cultural continuity -- The Aboriginal contribution to Australia's language habitat -- Issues and policies in school education -- Bridging the language gap in education -- Aboriginal English in the criminal justice system -- Aboriginal language habitat in research and tertiary education -- Tyikim/Blekbala perspectives on language -- Name and author index -- Subject index.