
Mandy Paul is the director of the Migration Museum, a museum of the History Trust of South Australia, and has previously worked in museums around Australia and in the United Kingdom. She has a long history of working in Aboriginal Australia, which began when she was native title historian at the Central Land Council, Alice Springs. She has postgraduate qualifications in history and museum studies, and her research interests include South Australian migration and Indigenous history and historical practice in the context of museums and native title law.

Michelangelo Bolognese is a senior curator at the National Motor Museum, and has previously worked at the British Museum and London Fire Brigade Museum.
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'There are cars and car parts aplenty in the pages of this unusual foray into deep indigenous Australia: technical details as well. What ingenious repairs and workarounds and "good tricks" - or, to use the Warlpiri term of art, "Nyurulypa" - the team of desert mechanics came up with!' - Nicolas Rothwell, Australian