Joe Fox, a kartiya (white person) from the South West, came to the Kimberley in 1985, first to Halls Creek as a music teacher then as co-ordinator of Ngaringga Ngurra Women’s Group, where he assisted the group in the establishment of the Yarliyil Arts Centre. He has also worked for the Kimberley Language Resource Centre. Moving to Broome in 1997, Joe worked for a number of small, community-based organisations, before joining the Kimberley Land Council in 2004, as media officer, policy adviser and later as project manager for the KLC’s new office development.

Joe was commissioned by the KLC to prepare this book.