restricted women's knowledge, which they refer to as "women's business", was not a genuine Ngarrindjeri tradition'. In his 'Reasons for Decision' of August 2001, von Doussa noted 'the evidence received by the Court on this topic is significantly different to that which was before the Royal Commission. Upon the evidence before this Court I am not satisfied that the restricted women's knowledge was fabricated or that it was not part of genuine Aboriginal tradition'. As to Ngarrindjeri key witness, Dr. Doreen Kartinyeri, he wrote, 'I am not persuaded that I should reject Dr. Kartinyeri's evidence and find that she has lied about the restricted women's business'. On 4 May 2009, 'The Meeting of the Waters', the site complex the Ngarrindjeri women had sought to protect through the courts, was registered by the State Government of South Australia. On 6 July 2010, on behalf of the SA Government, Paul Caica, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, acknowledged von Doussa's Decision that Ngarrindjeri knowledge was a genuine part of Aboriginal tradition and apologised for the great pain and hurt to the community. Notwithstanding the von Doussa Decision, the SA Government apology and site registration, there remain commentators who hold to the opinion that the 'usual suspects again have been promulgating the cultural fabrications of the island'. Bell became involved in this matter of gender-restricted knowledge after the Royal Commission. On the basis of her research in the SA archives and fieldwork with the women in 1996–8, Bell was convinced there was sufficient evidence to support the women's claims that there was gender-restricted knowledge in Ngarrindjeri society and that the women had told the truth. Bell's subsequent monograph, Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin (1998/2014), won the NSW Premier's Gleebook Award for cultural and literary criticism in 1999. The book was also short listed for 'The Age Book of the Year' and the Queensland Premier's History Award in 1999 and the Gold Medal of the Australian Literary Society in 2000. Bell's most recent writing with Ngarrindjeri women, Kungun Ngarrindjeri Miminar Yunnan (2008) is a further contribution to collaborative research and writing and documents the impact of the contesting of cultural knowledge on the Ngarrindjeri. From 2005 to 2013, Bell lived on Ngarrindjeri lands as she researched and wrote the Connection Report for their Native Title Claim. Creative writing Bell's first published novel, Evil, addresses secrets within the church and is set on the campus of a fictional American liberal