Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 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 -- Backmatter