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Recent high profile corporate collapses, both in Australia and the USA, have generated considerable debate in the popular press about the role directors play in a company's success. In particular, questions have been raised about how board members are selected for this most privileged level of management. Some commentators have suggested we need to be more vigilant about the selection processes for boards. While it is often claimed that current processes are suspect, and that it is a matter of who you know, not what you know, that prompts invitations to join a board, there is little data currently available on how board positions are filled. One source of information about the filling of board positions is the board members themselves. This article reports on recent research that sought to explore directors' views on the factors they perceive to be important in accessing a board position. Given men's dominance of corporate Australia, I was also interested in investigating whether there were differences between the views of women and men directors concerning factors important in gaining access to board positions. Rather than differences between the groups, generally women's and men's responses were similar. Both groups identified the importance of a strong track record, a good understanding of business principles and business contacts in gaining board positions.

Contemporary Thunderbolt Balladry: Of all the tales of the Australian bushrangers, with the exception of Edward Kelly, none has left behind a richer tradition of lore and legend than the notorious Frederick Ward, alias Captain Thunderbolt. His reign was a long one, beginning in 1863 and ending with his death on May 25th, 1870, a period of seven years. His activities were confined almost exclusively to the New England district.

The sketch of the railway cottage at the front of this issue is a foretaste of the railway history and architecture it is hoped to feature in Journals 19 and 20. The many reductions in both freight and passenger services in the north in 1974 have pointed up anew both the achievements and the glamour of the building of the Great Northern Railway. Indeed, while several of the articles included in the present issue make clear the nature of the initial impact of such transport north from the Hunter River. The personality of Bishop Turner and certain aspects of graveyards will also be treated.

As the contents of this issue will make clear, regional historical interests are obtaining both a depth of scholarship and a wider appeal for our readers in New South Wales and further afield. Thus, while the usual areas of interest are represented, it is not inappropriate that contributions included glance at (related) experience abroad, in Great Britain, in the United States and elsewhere. In this connection, it is pleasing to be able to include an original paper by R.M. Hartwell, Glen Innes born and certainly New England's most distinguished historian of ideas. The British material on architectural archives, country houses,genealogical study and the piece from Mauritius on Matthew Flinders (a belated bicentenary tribute) all alike shed light on issues and problems of Australian history. An unexpected and pleasing paper is that on the late Professor W.N. Benson. The long article on the settlers at New Italy is important, not least because earlier scholarship, such as the book of Josephine Niau, has concentrated on the New Hebrides and the French strand, to the exclusion of consideration of the actual fate of the Italian colonists, while most Australian (demographic) studies of Italians look largely to the greater Perth area or to Northern Queensland. Pleasing aspects of the research work now being published is the linking in with earlier articles. Thus the present issue contains pieces which link very well with our more recently published research, as on: Roman Catholicism in the north; regional groups of Baptists; the history of geological field work: the Bligh family in New England; the early occupants of 'Booloominbah'; or of the culture and endeavour of the Wyndham family over several centuries. The bicentenary of the American Declaration of Independence in 1776 has not been allowed to pass without certain comment. Indeed both this piece and that on anti-capitalism contain salutary and subtle musings which are just as relevant for Australia at present, as they are for their ostensibly distant audiences.

The features of the current issue are the changed cover and the cluster of articles and notes on the nineteenth century railway expansion into New England, officially styled the 'Great Northern Railway'. It is hoped that these both appeal to our widening readership, now drawn from areas far beyond the northern third of the state. The article by the Hon. Mr. A.J. Grassby reminds us of the congress, Ethnic Australia, - 2000, which was held in Armidale in August, 1976, the papers from which are currently at press. It helps to underscore the fact that Australia is not a homogeneous society. Future Journals will explore a number of regional illustrations of the districtive new communities which are emerging.

This 2016 Assembled issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research relates to an eclectic group of six articles covering a variety of aspects of the use of virtual worlds. Firstly presented is a short history of the virtual world economy that provides the reader with an overview of where the virtual economy began in three virtual worlds and where it is today. The second article discusses the use of non-player characters in courses and how students reacted to these. The third article relates to the use of a virtual world to provide training for office-based medical emergencies. The fourth article explores the relationship between the real and the virtual supermarkets. The fifth article looks at lighting controls used in virtual environments, and the final article is an overview of the use of cloud in connecting video games.

Ancient Assyria was situated adjacent to the mountainous region in the north of modern Iraq. Its main river was the Tigris (Idi-glat, 'arrow-swift') with its two main tributaries the Greater and Lesser Zab rising in the mountains to the east in what is now Iran. To the south lay a once very fertile plain, where the great civilisations of Sumer-Akkad and Babylonia had flourished, watered by the Euphrates (Uruttu, 'copper') river, useful for irrigation andtransport. To the west of Assyria lay a great plain, the Jazirah, extending into modern Syria, giving access to trade routes leading to the Mediterranean and beyond, but leaving Assyria vulnerable to attackfrom nomadic tribes. To the north were the Taums Mountains. Assyria did not lack for natural resources - wood, stone, pasture and grain, bitumen, silver, copper, lead (in Armenia) and iron.It was into the Iron Age (c. 1200 BC) that Assyria began to come into her own, when a combination of weakness in the surrounding powers and astute Assyrian rulers provided opportunity for Assyria to flex her military muscles and start being the subjugator rather than the subjugated one - as she had been under Sargon of Akkad (c.2360 BC), the Ur III rulers and Hammurabi of Babylon (1700s BC).Even then, Assyria's struggle for supremacy in the region was hard won and far from assured. Fortunately for us, the Assyrian kings were keen to trumpet their achievements, and we have copious inscriptions.

The 'Australasian Journal of Regional Studies' is a refereed journal published three times yearly by the Australia and New Zealand Regional Science Association International Inc. (ANZRSAI), which is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of efficient and effective regional development policies through research, education and the discussion of ideas. Its interests cover a wide range of Australian and international regional issues with a major focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Its goal is to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary approach to regional analysis. Submissions which fall within this general framework of regional analysis, policy, practice and development are welcome. The journal includes research notes and reviews of books.

The 'Australasian Journal of Regional Studies' is a refereed journal published three times yearly by the Australia and New Zealand Regional Science Association International Inc. (ANZRSAI), which is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of efficient and effective regional development policies through research, education and the discussion of ideas. Its interests cover a wide range of Australian and international regional issues with a major focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Its goal is to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary approach to regional analysis.

The articles in this issue testify to the roles played by key local actors in shaping regional and local economies, not just in the present, but also in the past.

The 'Australasian Journal of Regional Studies' (AJRS) is a refereed journal published by the Australia and New Zealand Regional Science Association International Inc. This non-profit organisation is dedicated to improving our understanding of regional economic and social conditions and development processes in both the Australasian region and the world at large through research and the discussion of ideas.

This issue provides us with important insights into regional development processes, needs, opportunities, and governance. Regional Science is clearly alive and well in this country and has much to say about who should do what where and when - and about appropriate methods of analysis.

These contributions underscore the slow migration of ANZ regional science from quantitative model-building to document and explain regional economic conditions into evidence-based evaluation of policy and strategy settings designed to remedy perceived spatial problems and inequalities.

Most fresh fruits and vegetables are unbranded. However, buyers are assisted with brands when purchasing most other grocery products. Brands have the potential to be of value to buyers and to the organisations that own them. However, research has shown that brands are only valuable to buyers when the attribute being sought fluctuates and is hidden from them at the time of purchase. Such as tastes with respect to apples. On this basis, for example, brands are relevant for apples, oranges, rockmelons and grapes, but not for potatoes, onions or mushrooms. However, it may not even be possible to develop successful brands with products for which they are relevant. This is due to the difficulty of reducing fluctuations in the attributes sought and hence being able to present a consistent product to the buyer as well as the difficulty of the organisation investing in the brand receiving some benefit. Thus, many fresh fruit and vegetable products are likely to remain unbranded.

Our journal, 'Australian Folklore', is now issuing its twenty-fifth volume, and, like the world titles across our field, this publication has become - in effect - a representative, and selective, yearbook - and it is endeavouring to move far beyond its formative origins and concerns, those still seemingly in British (antiquarian) post Industrial Revolution thought. For we are now accepting much more deliberately our Pacific location in the twenty-first century, in order to re-appraise the better our non-European setting and an ever more confident sense of identity.

In this issue we have followed the more recent habit of clustering into larger groups the papers now selected for publication, and also offer now the accumulating food pieces which were referred to in 'Australian Folklore' No 20 (on p. vi of that volume.) This group is most helpfully introduced by Donna Lee Brien's reflective essay on the largely television-popularised Celebrity Chefs, whose personal presentations and influence alike constitute a most formative influence on the hitherto cautious Australian foodways. The Railway Conference report promised did not eventuate, but two Prominent figures from the Sesqui-centennial Conference have combined to offer us a provocative paper on the amazingly precious site in Sydney, certainly unique in the world, which is threatened at the present time. We are also informed that an east coast Cooperative Rail Research Centre is in the process of formation, a vital development, since so much of the lore associated with heavy industry is in danger of being forgotten without a drive to preserve as much as possible of Australia's great industrial age which has long been passing.

This volume - one issued a little belatedly for the year 2002 - has followed the format of 'Australian Folklore' Number 16, in that (1) its contents and themes are clustered more than in the past, and we have taken some note of tragic events both in Australia and worldwide occurring in later 2002 - and so of the new 'folklore of terror' that has come with the millennium; and(2) that we have also included again some materials first presented at/ offered to the National Biennial Conference held in 2000. It is also the case, with this volume, that the folkloric work currently being done in Australia has a much wider range than might have appeared possible a decade ago. In this country there is also now a much wider recognition of the role that the folklores of the southwest Pacific region can and do play in the Australian cultural continuum, and how we are at certain levels international and,perforce, global. Thus the two letters to the editor are concerned with matters that, at first sight, might seem somewhat peripheral.

This present volume, the annual scholarly publication of the Australian Folklore Association, follows the general style of earlier numbers of the journal, and it also takes up many of their more recent thematic interests, as well as those to be found in the Proceedings of earlier conferences in which the Association participated. It is the case, too, that many of the concerns of our sister national/international journals - in Canada, in the United Kingdom, for East Asia, and from various regions of the United States of America - are to be found in this volume and planned for No. 16 of 'Australian Folklore'. This latter volume, that for 2001, as well as being commemorative of the centenary of Australian Federation, is also the year of Australia's hosting in Melbourne in July of the World Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research. (The preferred areas of interest and the final call for papers for the Congress are both published now.) This last focus links particularly well with the April 2000 National Library of Australia conference, 'Challenging Australian History: Discovering New Narratives', one particular purpose of which was to explore 'the place and the importance of remembering' and another 'the influence of cultural studies on the history profession'. This volume - like the earlier ones featuring the work of Russel Ward, Dal Stivens, Bill Wannan and (separately) of Alan and Bill Scott - is concerned to celebrate the work of a distinguished folklorist, John Meredith, who turned eighty this year.

The present volume builds on its predecessors and on an ever-widening circle of contributors and readers, as well as on the several journals and societies with which it exchanges publications. It is also a milestone issue in that it both celebrates the work of two of Australia's most significant folklorists and is a sesqui-centennial tribute to the founding of the discipline in England in 1846, and to its remarkable renaissance in the late twentieth century. It is a great pleasure to be able to commemorate now the work of the compassionate Australian folk writer, Dal Stivens (b. 1911), in his eighty-fifth year. More to the point, we are concerned to articulate that the driving force behind all his tales - and his stories have been published in more than 50 anthologies - is his concern to interpret the experience, wit and poignancy of the lives of Australia's folk. Further, like Frank Hardy, he had turned to urban lore long before this became a proper subject for collection and narration. We also note a tragically early passing. Alan Scott's career has been curtailed when his brilliant recording work was becoming more widely recognized. However, his National library recordings will remain as a haunting evocation of singing styles that have now almost passed, and his achievement is justly linked with that of his older brother, whose most recent work is also treated in the present yearly volume.

This issue, one somewhat delayed, is, by its contents and thought, a living proof of the increasing dynamic of the discipline of folklore - and of the greater understanding of all folkloric matters, in this country, even as it is also a defiance of the now so fashionable MOOCS (multiple online on line courses, and their bland and yet often sweeping conclusions) as exist on this same field. And it indicates also the need for the general reader to realize, and to reflect deeply, on the mass of significant, but abrasive and temperamentally destructive issues that come under this rubric, and that are filling to overflow our once more traditional daily lives. Accordingly, we have taken the perhaps quaint step of indexing our journal's pages into the divisions of Names (personal and place), and then of Subjects / Themes as they are to be found in the articles in this issue.

'Australian Folklore' is the journal of the Australian Folklore Association, Inc. It is published yearly in the Southern Hemisphere Spring, i.e. in August/September. Prices and details of back issues available are listed inside the back cover. 'Australian Folklore' is a peer-reviewed journal, maintaining its high quality through the engagement of Australian research with the global research community. It has long been listed by the Modern Language Association, and many papers from it cited in the MLA's selective Annual Bibliography and indices. A similar treatment is accorded by the Modern Humanities Research Association in its ABELL, both in its Traditional Culture and other appropriate sections. In Australia, it is an ERA-listed journal.

This, the thirtieth issue of the annual and now both national and internationally reaching and respected publication, 'Australian Folklore', is one that marks a pleasing and most significant milestone in the recording and analysing of the customs, beliefs, and the various records of the habits and general and more particular mores of the Australian people and of the whole general society of this continent, without, however, treating of the more intimate culture of the Indigenous people. It is also a journal that has always taken due notice of the outside world folklore that interests Australians, much as has been the case with the open files of the British and folklore mothering major early journal, 'Folklore', one which allows itself a sweeping view of interesting research and significant recording, particularly across the English-speaking countries. Pleasingly, too, the Northern European e-folklore has more than one Australian scholar in its more regularly appearing authors.

This volume follows the format of recent issues in its thematic clustering of topics and in our continuing concern to cover a broad range of the folklore work now done in Australia, as well as of that fieldwork and scholarship which may be said to be more narrowly focused on Australian themes, experiences and attitudes. In this connection it is interesting that a record number of Australian universities and departments are represented in the valued and supportive contributors to this issue. As usual we endeavour to report on the work of individual scholars, collectors, performers and / or writers in our field, and we have, sadly, to record yet again the passing of several towering figures, two of whom in later 2003 were accorded state funerals by the appropriate state governments.

The format of this volume of Australian Folklore, like some of the more recent, has been divided into several loose clusters, as is clear from the table of contents. Thus there is a grouped focus on several of the larger areas of the folklore work now being worked on in this country. Again the annual issue covers a multiple number of research approaches to the field, although almost all of the items now included have a strong link with Australia and with materials largely generated by the various regions, societies and belief systems of the continent. We have been able to reprint - with Fabula's gracious permission - a paper given to an international congress in Melbourne but which had appeared in print first in Germany, and we have also been able to publish an account of fieldwork being done in the Indian sub-continent. Significantly, we have been in scholarly contact with/ exchanged journals with various equivalent major societies and publishers in the field, including those edited in Canada, China, Estonia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, in particular.

This volume - issued a little belatedly for the year 2001 - is somewhat different from its predecessors in that (i) its contents have been more shaped and delayed, as we have tried to take account of the intended recipient's death occurring when we were about to go to press and at that stage with much less material about her publications and manuscript collections; and (ii) the fact that it was decided to publish in 'Australian Folklore' a number of the papers given at the National Biennial Conference of 2000 in the next two issues of the journal (i.e. No. 16 and No. 17). It may also be noted that in general, as the Conference itself made very clear, it and the journal are more and more concerned with Folklore Study done in Australia and its region, and not totally focussed on Australian collecting of, and research into, material largely generated by the societies of this continent. This change or decision to include (revised) some of the 2000 Biennial Folklore conference papers was approved not least since these will, thereby, be the more easily and widely located in libraries worldwide, rather than their being published in an irregular format and circulation, as wall the earlier Proceedings of their Conference. (And, as would be noted elsewhere, the Conference title had the more Comprehensive wording Folklore/Folklife, both because of the greater international use of the last term and from its wider use in Victoria, especially, to refer to aspects beyond the verbal or printed form.)

The annual volume from the Australian Folklore Association is a sequel to both that body's own earlier publications and to the various and developing strands observable in folklorics both here and overseas. ... Our international exchanges have continued and been added to, as has the list of countries whose scholars we have published. The distant refereeing of longer theoretical and comparative pieces has continued and in next year's issue we hope to list our wider range of consultant board members contributing editors. The present volume is also concerned to honour the several decades of highly significant folkloric and folk-sympathetic writing and collecting by William Neville (Bill) Scott in this his seventy-fifth year. Due to publishing deadlines, it has not been possible to include an overseas tribute to Bill's contemporary legend work by the eminent English scholar, Gillian Bennett in the present issue, but it will appear in 'Australian Folklore' No. 14 in 1999.

The present annual volume, the largest by the Australian Folklore Association, Inc. so far, is in some part built on both themes treated in earlier issues and on the steadily widening number of contributing scholars and subscribers, as well as on the support readily available from many comparable bodies and their serial publications. It features a most significant article on Australia's bush songs, from Hugh M. Anderson, now a septenarian, who has been influential in the collection and publication of ballads and colonial music for more than forty years. As the 1994 volume honoured Russel Ward in his 80th year and before his death, so No. 11 (1996) celebrated the achievements of Dal Stivens (b. 1911) who, very sadly, died on 15 June 1997. He was memorably praised by Barbara Jeffries for 'The Age' in her obituary entitled 'Folklorist who loved the land' (30 July, 1997).

This issue of 'Australian Folklore' follows the editorial policy of No. 8 (1993) in endeavouring to publish the work of as wide as possible a range of scholars, collectors and experts in particular aspects of the vast field of Australian folkloric studies. It is also pleasing that we have been able this year to attract pieces from distinguished scholars in four overseas countries, including a version of one recently presented in Lithuania.

In this last year there have been many indications that the Folklore discipline is gaining considerably in both academic and general recognition in this country, much as it is abroad. Specifically, not only have there been our own Association's members contributing to major folklore and related conferences in North America and the United Kingdom, but Graham Seal was invited to give a keynote opening address - on concepts concerned with ANZAC - to a special inaugural Folklore Conference at the Victoria University of Wellington, in the New Zealand capital. Like grand theme conferences continue to be associated with the National Library in Canberra, while more applied ones are linked with state libraries and regional festivals. Similarly, it is pleasing that a long 2005-written paper from an AFA member has more recently appeared in the electronic journal, 'Folklore' edited in Estonia. It may also be noted that Australian scholars represented in this present issue reach out to field materials in Burma, Canada, and elsewhere, while many of their themes are 'global contemporary'. We have also been interested in the way in which Folklore and Ethnography, perhaps, rather than Anthropology, may be said to be coming together. Of course, this has been the case in some sense, for many years, and the matter has been discussed in our pages.

This issue of Australian Folklore follows the current editorial policy of endeavouring to publish the work of as wide as possible a range of scholars, collectors and experts in both particular and general aspects of the vast field of Australian folkloric studies, as well as both theoretical and field studies by scholars from around the world. Although less international than usual, this issue contains a record number of Australian contributors, which is particularly appropriate in a volume presented to Bill Wannan, Australia's greatest folklorist, in commemoration of his eightieth birthday. As the bibliography of Wannan monographs makes clear, his output has been phenomenal, continually savoured and deemed 'bench mark' for the comparative study of colonial culture in various other (English speaking) countries.

It is now inevitable that most journals in the field of folklore should refer to the ever changing nature of their discipline in recent years, this almost inevitable since the world's smaller countries' populations are scarcely able to remain history - remembering and regional, or cohesive and firm in their culture; nor are they found to be clear in their conceptions of their own inherited identity, or of the issues that are truly central to the thoughts and anxieties of their current society and so much more mixed peoples /races. Interestingly, too, so many hitherto quietly distinct regions are now become both seemingly new and even permanent locations and places of refuge for very different ethnicities and cultures, and this to an extent not encountered earlier. Further, so many of 'our people' have travelled remarkably far - whether for education, for pleasure, or from the need to escape intolerable stresses and oppression. Accordingly, it is very much the case that that this journal is now offered for due consideration very many research papers that cover issues and themes that may well be regarded as, variously, proximate to our 'Australian' title /focus and location in the world. However, they often seem helpfully informative in their content for those concerned with the mores and lore to be encountered ever more frequently in 'Australia'.

As with the last issue of 'Australian Folklore', this volume has its contents divided into several thematic areas or clusters which reflect more or less the work on lore and persistent custom currently being done in this country. The article on the sense and evolution of 'Heritage' is, however, more focused on the British Isles, although it is possible that some of the less positive nuances of the word there may replicate themselves in the Southern Pacific countries. As is pointed out by Dr Keith McKenry in his more recent - and now gratefully reproduced and generous reflective appraisal of the journal for international readers - there are a larger number of contributions that are obviously from universities. Indeed, a careful reading of the issue will reveal that contributors come from some nine Australian universities, and from three in North America. Moreover, the journal, in its contents, has again maintained its well-established connections with academic colleagues in the U.S.A., Canada, Japan, and various other Australian universities, as well as recording fieldwork done in Indonesia, New York, the Torres Strait area and in the far extremities of both Western Australia and Tasmania. (Indeed, it is pleasing that there are two articles based on earlier work done in that too often folklorically neglected state.) Most of the other items are from (private) collectors and scholars still studying and writing, but not so formally employed. Yet many of them are remarkably observant and they are now recording their observations and recollections from decades earlier, as with Rebekah Brammer, and with some of John White's even going back to the 1920s. We are pleased to include a paper on aspects of the threat/challenge offered by the computer to certain aspects of identity, and we record that the Sesquicentennial of Rail was celebrated at Werris Creek (New South Wales) and in adjacent Tamworth, in late September of this year, and hope to publish in 2006 some reflections on the four day occasion by the Conference Convenor, Dr Andrew Piper. As always, the future of folklore will rest in the hands of children - those transmissible elements, both old and new, which help children to probe meanings and potential speech/actions within their culture will survive well. Issues of access arise in these times of much change, and the role of schools as sites of transmission, both formally and informally, may be increasing in importance. Thus it is pleasing to have several papers surveying the issues of children and folklore.

This annual volume from the Australian Folklore Association is a sequel both to that body's earlier publications and to the Proceedings of the earlier Conferences (issued under various auspices and in differing formats). Its style and contents have, alike, been shaped in response to the various developing strands observable in folkloristics both in Australia and overseas.It is thus concerned to reflect something of the mood of general appraisal which has been felt in the field recently, particularly in Britain. Attention has also been paid to the various surveys that have been felt appropriate here in Australia as Federation approaches, and as we reflect on the fact that, in 2001, this country will host for the first time in its forty year history the prestigious World Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research.

We are deeply appreciative of the range of thoughtful and even provocative and discipline-extending articles currently being made available to our journal, thus making possible a challenging selection that covers many aspects of the further development of Australia's 'more traditional' culture. Again, too, it is pleasing to be able to record now our scholars' ongoing interest in several of the more regional and ever more impinging - and distinctive - cultures, as with some engagement with New Zealand, and with various of the South Pacific island nations. Further, we now also publish a much earlier reflection on industrial lore and a timely commentary on the (possible) American influences on the commercialization of certain sectors of Australian music, and on its industrial style. In yet another perspective, it is a fruitful activity to read a further musing from David Cornelius on the folk's passing in 'Wessex', in one of our 'home' countries - both for its impact on Australian settlement, and as we reflect on similar identity-threatening events taking place in the Australian outback at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This is the first journal from your new editor who was elected by the outgoing editors and the executive of the Australian Folklore Association the members of which are concerned that the journal and thence its scholarly recording of Australia's traditional and largely unwritten culture should be assisted by an appropriate professional group. The Australian Folklore Association itself had become a member body of the Australian Folk Trust Inc. in early 1992, with their trustee, at least until the AGM later this year, the well known poet Keith McKenry.

This present journal can be said to have many more contributors than any of its predecessors. This is the result of a deliberate policy of involving numerous persons, both collectors and analysers, in the task of recording and publishing materials from this vast and largely neglected field of Australian narrative, custom, lexis and behaviour pattern. Thus lore, folk speech, nicknames, multicultural activity and certain religious observances all find their place in this issue. The number of notes and comments, like that of the book reviews, also shows an increase.

Once again we have been delighted at the richness of both biographical and evaluative materials being offered to 'Australian Folklore' for possible publication, even as we note the steady increase in the number of private scholars,particularly women, who are now working in the field. These individuals and their several organisations are regularly offering for consideration both articles and reports on significant aspects of the traditional culture of Australia and also on its relations, past and current, with: neighbouring societies, antecedent ones, and those which offer contrasts to things Australian. To anticipate, we wish to record now the likelihood soon of significant material on the South Pacific and also from New Zealand. Readers will also notice that our sister journal, 'Asian Folklore Studies', has changed its focus somewhat and is now called 'Asian Ethnology', with a special focus on the folk culture of Viet Nam in its first issue. Pleasingly one of its former editors is continuing working from the Research Institute in Nagoya, Japan. In the case of Australia itself, there would appear to be a stronger wish to record and evaluate the work of earlier folklorists, as is obvious from the range of pieces now included on some of the key figures of the folk renaissance from the 1950s. In this connection, it is intended that the 2009 issue will contain a number of the papers from the forthcoming seminar on the lives and writings/ contributions of the late Keith Garvey and the more recently deceased Col Newsome, both of whom were anachronistic in many ways, not the least of which was: their style of 'publication', of revisiting in their writings the regional frontier of northern New South Wales', of their recensions of the traditional pastoral history of the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, in particular.

The content of the current issue highlights the international nature of scholarship in the study and practice of hypnosis. ... With contributions from Australia, North America, the U.K. and Hong Kong in a routine edition, it is apparent that AJCEH has the potential to serve not only the local community of hypnosis practitioners but also to draw upon and reach out to a much wider and genuinely global network. The development of such networks is a challenge and an opportunity for ASH and the immediate hypnosis community of practitioners and researchers. In order to do so we must identify and implement the steps necessary to ensure wide electronic availability of the journal and the listing of its contents in recognised international academic databases.

Since moving to an online format available not only to ASH members but as an accessible resource to practitioners and academics throughout the world, the 'Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis' has occupied an otherwise vacant niche which over time offers to vastly widen the scope of its readership and its contributor base. Collectively the contributors to this combined edition demonstrate the potential of AJCEH (we will need to disambiguate our acronym) to make an impact through the world wide web.