Table of Contents: President’s Message; Caledonia Fire: The Aftermath; Smoke on Tamboritha John Walker; We Couldn’t Take them Home to Paddocks Full of Dirt Steven Higgins; Drought, Fire and Ideology Gone Mad W.L. (Bill) Cumming; Renewal of Seven Year Alpine Park Grazing Licences; Gordon’s Song Paul Hutchison; Obituaries: Norma Commins, Mary Fitzgerald, Sharon Pendergast, Simone Jewson, Jim Angus; Rose River Get Together 1998, Bush Hut Ballad Dorothy B. Watt, Congratulations Ron Connley; The Legend Toland Whip Johnny Faithfull; Brenda of the A.V.O. John Morrissey; MCAV Photographic Competition; Bogong Jack’s Muriel Howman; Common Sense Rod Poulton; Minutes of the 1998 Annual Meeting; Acknowledgements