CURLEWS ON VULTURE STREET CITIES, BIRDS, PEOPLE AND ME Claire Beattie For perhaps fifty thousand years

For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal people have lived

Tracker Tilmouth returned home to transform the world of Aboriginal politics

puzzling and unprecedented actions by a government in Australian history – the 2007 NT Intervention by the Howard Government- has resulted in an ongoing and flagrant breach of human rights

Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native Police in Central Australia during the 1880s

CURLEWS ON VULTURE STREET CITIES, BIRDS, PEOPLE AND ME Claire Beattie For perhaps fifty thousand yearsIn Curlews on Vulture Street, acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones reveals the not so secret lives of the most common birds that share our towns and cities. Despite the noise, heat, dust and fumes, the ceaseless movement, light and toxins, many birds successfully live their lives among us. And not just furtively in the shadows. Ibis steal our lunch, brush turkeys rearrange gardens and magpies chase us screaming from near their nest. From his