A talk by Dr Laura Rademaker at the Northern Territory Archives Centre , Darwin , will trace establishment of the Church Missionary Society on the island in 1943 and attempts to engage Aborigines through language themes , including English literacy , bilingual education and Bible translations . She is working on a history of the Tiwi Islands .
Last year, on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow , displayed items included artefacts and photographs said to have come from Groote Eylandt and New Guinea in the 1960s .
