INDEX

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, 5, 160

Aboriginal Corporation, 5

Aboriginal domain, 5

Aboriginal health strategy, 4

Aboriginal Health Worker, 3, 47, 65, 73, 145

Aboriginal Reserve, 2

Aboriginal Traditional Owners. See Traditional Owners

Aboriginality, 71, 100, 112, 157. See also Indigeneity

accommodation, 58, 62, 81, 84, 152–3

Acknowledgement of Country, 16, 87–92, 96, 98–9, 102–8

activists, 3, 5, 16, 21, 58–9, 61, 69, 82, 132, 143, 154

agency, 42

indigenous agency, 42, 44–7, 51

white agency, 12, 14, 45–7, 132–3, 144–6, 149

agnosticism, 27–8

alcohol, 4, 7, 9, 54, 57, 59, 66, 69–73, 77–8, 80, 160, 162

use, 7, 45, 47, 57, 66, 68, 71, 81. See also drunkenness

ambivalence, 10, 12–3, 22, 61, 68, 132, 146, 148, 161

ancestors, 64, 88, 90, 105, 108, 138

ancestry, 6, 55, 64, 108, 168, 172

anti-social behaviour, 74, 76, 81, 85

apology, 60, 99, 102, 159, 161

Arafura Sea, 1

Arnhem Land, 1–2, 17, 25, 40, 59, 65, 69, 79

assimilation, 5, 7, 48–9, 51–2, 101, 110, 116, 126, 129, 131, 137, 141, 159–64

Australian Institute of Health, 4, 6

authenticity, 110, 125, 168

authority, 29, 49, 72, 119, 122, 146

backstage, 12–3, 92–3, 97, 99, 124, 150

belief systems,

indigenous beliefs, 41

white anti-racist beliefs, 6, 13, 27, 29, 32, 33–52, 59, 80, 120, 133, 139, 144–5, 147, 151, 161–7

belonging, 87, 89, 90, 92, 99, 102–6

benevolence, 15, 21–3, 27, 29, 122

blackfella, 81, 101, 125–6

book-up, 76–79

boundaries, 111, 116, 119, 124–5, 127

Bracks, Steve, 88, 99

Bringing Them Home report, 48

Brown, Wendy, 39, 167–9

bureaucracy, 6, 32, 53

Casuarina, 1, 7, 63, 73, 75, 77

Central Australia, 3, 121, 142, 177

child abuse, 38

citizenship, 10, 111–2, 114, 163

class, 11–2, 32–3, 49, 51, 64, 97, 169

closing the gap. See gap

colonialism, 50, 65, 89, 101, 125, 129, 139, 169. See also neocolonialism

colonisation, 1, 2, 4, 9, 24, 29, 32, 34–5, 37, 87, 131, 134–5, 138–9, 149, 168. See also decolonisation

community, 26

acceptance, 6

consultation, 6–7, 73, 75–6, 120, 163

Indigenous, 2, 3, 5–8, 10, 22–3, 38, 40, 48, 57, 62, 65–71, 79–81, 83, 91, 96–98, 110, 119–20, 123, 125–8, 149–54, 160, 163

White, 137

connection, 8, 37, 65, 72, 121, 169

consent, 104, 110, 123, 125–6

conservative, 53

people, 11, 22, 34, 58, 60–1,87, 101–2, 104–6, 137, 142, 159

politics, 87, 88, 90, 91–93, 97–99, 101–2, 160, 168

contact zone, 10, 16, 57–9, 62–5, 68–9, 71, 74, 76–7, 79, 801, 95, 164

culture, 3, 8–11, 13–4, 16, 21, 24, 28, 31–4, 36, 38–9, 50, 52, 58, 60–2, 64, 68, 70–1, 75, 80–1, 88, 92, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 113, 115, 117, 118, 119, 121, 123, 128, 136–7, 144, 160–2, 165–6

appropriateness, 3, 5, 8–9, 28, 90, 126–8, 160, 162

awareness, 32, 88, 118–9

distinctiveness, 10, 39, 50, 52, 71, 90, 113–4, 116, 120, 163

dominant, 33–4, 59, 98, 111, 114, 120, 135,

inappropriateness, 110, 125

intercultural, 32, 60, 97, 155

multiculturalism, 9, 12, 74, 132, 165–70

sameness, 31, 50, 111, 113

See also difference

Darug, 100, 101

Darwin, 1, 2, 9, 13, 15–6, 24–5, 32, 40, 57–9, 62–73, 75–6, 79–81, 93, 119–20, 125–6, 133, 138, 142, 149

Darwin Institute of Indigenous Health, 62, 75, 91, 133

death, 34, 80, 94, 102

drowning, 3

suicide, 3, 25, 80

decolonisation, 131

Department of Infrastructure Planning and Environment, 73

descendants, 91, 106, 138, 169

descent, 6, 168

development, 2, 15, 26–7, 121, 139–41

Indigenous, 6, 12–3, 40, 58, 132, 142, 147–8, 150, 153, 166

International, 6–7, 10–1, 13–4, 17, 21–2, 115, 121, 142

worker, 11, 13–5, 22, 67, 115–7, 132, 139–42, 145, 153

Diabetes Australia, 62, 72–6

difference. 9, 10, 15, 16, 31, 32, 34–41, 47–8, 50–3, 69, 71, 76, 80, 111–117, 122–3, 126–7, 133, 161, 164, 167

radical, 8, 10, 35, 38–9, 48–51, 57–8, 71, 74–6, 79, 115, 120, 159, 161

remediable, 16, 32, 35, 38–42, 45–8, 51–2, 110, 115, 126, 133, 155, 159, 161, 164

sanitised, 38, 50–1, 133, 159, 161

unsanitised, 38, 50, 72, 76, 133, 159, 161

disadvantage, 7, 110, 114, 118, 149

indigenous, 6, 9, 23, 28, 31–2, 34–6, 38, 42–4, 46, 48, 52–3, 58–60, 79, 99, 117, 132–5, 141, 151, 161–2, 169

discourse, 4, 11, 17, 24–7, 29, 33, 37, 44–5, 50, 58–9, 71, 79, 92, 99, 113, 115, 121–2, 132, 135–6, 143, 146, 159

discrimination, 9, 60

disease, 3–4, 25, 112

heart disease, 3–4, 9, 41, 43

kidney failure, 3–4, 40, 43, 64

lung cancer, 4, 41

obesity, 3

renal disease, 4, 9, 40, 43

rheumatic fever, 3

syphilis, 3

displacement, 34, 71, 80

dispossession, 3–4, 9, 34, 46, 70, 75, 87, 99, 104, 138, 141, 148

diversity, 5, 63, 168

domestic violence, 38

dominance, 27, 134, 139, 141

doing good. See benevolence

dreaming, 100

drinking. See alcohol use

drowning. See death

drugs, 7, 42

drunkenness, 16, 32, 66–7, 72, 74–6, 78–9, 81. See also alcohol use

education, 2–3, 9, 11, 25, 33, 35, 42, 46, 49–50, 73, 89, 92, 110, 118–9, 126, 128, 134, 138, 144, 162–3

elder, 65, 88–90, 97, 101, 105, 115–6, 129

employment, 35, 42, 64, 73, 77, 112, 115, 119, 138, 162

equality, 16, 34–6, 38–9, 51, 54, 101, 111–3, 144, 148, 159, 166. See also inequality

essentialised. See essentialism

essentialism, 37, 39, 161, 165, 168

ethics, 21–2, 29, 32, 49–9, 52, 109–10, 119, 123, 125–6, 133–4, 149, 151–2

ethnicity, 42

Europeans, 37, 62, 166

exclusion, 167, 36, 111–3, 167–8. See also inclusion

family, 2–3, 9, 31, 42, 46, 60–1, 64, 66, 68, 73, 76–7, 94, 107, 110, 114–5, 119, 123, 137, 144, 150–1, 153

fantasy, 52

space, 132–4, 137, 144, 147–9, 155, 163

fear, 7–8, 10, 14, 23, 48–9, 53, 78–9, 110, 144, 160–2, 164

Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, 5

field of attraction, 116–7

Foley, Gary, 24

food, 1, 3–4, 7, 38, 40, 46, 49, 69–70, 72–3, 77–8, 140, 152, 160

front stage, 12–3, 92, 97

Galiwin’ku, 79–81

galka’. See sorcerer

gambling, 38, 50, 54, 74, 91

gap, 4, 9, 10, 12, 35–40, 49, 50–2, 64, 103, 121, 133, 146, 159, 161, 164

genetic, 35, 43, 138

genocide, 50, 99, 101, 136–7, 141

Goffman, Erving, 12–3, 19, 134–6, 145

Gove, 2

government, 3–5, 7, 10, 13–4, 28, 34–5, 45–6, 49, 59–62, 64–5, 69–70, 72–3, 76–7, 79, 80, 85, 88–9, 91, 98, 101, 102, 112–5, 131, 137, 142, 144, 151, 153, 159–64, 166, 170

Gunbalanya, 57, 59, 65

Hale, Charles, 26

harm, 15, 22–3, 25, 32, 41, 48, 66–7, 75, 91, 129, 141, 144–6, 151–2

health, 2–10, 15, 22–3, 25, 27–8, 32–4, 40–50, 52, 62–3, 65, 72–3, 75, 79, 91, 94, 97, 109–10, 118–20, 122, 124, 132–3, 142–6, 149–158, 160–1, 164, 166

information deficit, 40–2

heart disease. See disease

historical continuity, 51

history, 2–3, 5, 9, 31, 33, 49, 59–67, 101–2, 114, 118, 131, 137–9, 152, 159, 163, 166

homeless, 36, 70, 71, 73–4, 80

hostel, 65, 75, 84

housing, 5, 9, 25, 35, 43, 45, 55, 62–4, 71, 75, 162, 164

hunting, 3, 38, 50, 67, 71, 77, 146–7, 164

identity, 11–2, 17, 33, 38, 44–5, 58, 60–2, 67, 89, 92, 95–6, 98–9, 104, 106, 110–1, 114, 119–20, 123–4, 134–41, 146, 149, 150, 155, 167–72

illness, 28, 35, 38, 80, 94, 109. See also disease

imperialism. See colonialism

incarceration, 94

inclusion, 100, 111, 113, 121, 167. See also exclusion

Indigeneity, 5, 9, 11, 17, 24–5, 31, 49, 54, 73, 79, 90, 94, 108, 113, 117, 120, 130, 161, 165, 167–9, 172

pan-indigeneity, 169

inequality, 8–9, 15, 35–6, 39, 49, 53, 139

Kakadu National Park, 65

kidney failure. See disease

kinship, 1, 38, 50, 54, 58

Kymlicka, Will, 114

land, 1, 34, 37, 49, 65, 79, 83, 85, 88, 96–9, 102, 106–7, 113, 171

claim, 100

council, 5

rights, 5, 49, 61, 69, 107, 115, 131, 133, 160, 171

language, 42, 64, 72, 74, 91, 95, 98, 113–4, 118, 124–5, 128–9, 147, 154, 161, 167, 169

Darug, 101

Gidjingarli, 67, 84

groups, 6, 31, 69, 83, 91, 118

Indigenous, 8, 38, 64, 67, 79, 100, 123, 125, 127, 144

Larrakia, 64, 69, 71, 79, 85

liberal multiculturalism. See culture, multiculturalism

liberalism, 35–6, 113, 119, 165, 167

literacy, 41, 128

long grassers, 16, 24, 57–86

lung cancer. See disease

Maningrida, 57, 59, 67–9, 75, 81

marriage, 60, 112

men, 3, 18, 93, 112, 113

mental illness, 80

mining, 2, 9, 62

Bauxite mine, 2

missionaries, 2, 7, 10, 14, 49, 51, 139–47

missions, 2, 49, 80, 85, 143–4, 157

modernity, 113, 115, 165, 172

moral, 16, 25, 27–9, 35, 37–8, 45, 47–8, 51, 126, 136–7, 139–40, 148, 162, 169–70

dilemma, 23, 25–6, 169

positioning, 12, 23, 26, 28, 42, 47, 50–1, 140, 147

mortality, 3, 36. See also death

multiculturalism. See culture, multiculturalism

Murray, Gary, 97

neocolonial. See also colonial

Ngunawal, 96

Ngunnawal, 88, 96, 105

non-specificity, 122, 124

obesity. See disease

Occidentalism, 37, 134

oppression, 3, 5, 10, 15, 17, 29, 50, 96, 103, 116, 135, 138, 140–1, 148, 167

Orientalism, 16, 37–8, 120, 129, 161, 164, 166

overstructuration, 43, 44–5

ownership, 35, 37, 90, 96–98, 100, 106, 155

Papua New Guinea, 1

Paradies, Yin, 42, 168

participation, 22, 26, 93, 109–10, 118, 120, 128, 131

performance, 12–3, 16, 24, 34, 58, 81, 92, 94–5, 97, 103, 106, 111, 117, 124, 128

petrol sniffing, 67

policy, 8, 10, 24, 26–7, 88, 98, 113, 119, 131, 160–4

political, 5, 15, 17, 22, 25–6, 28, 32, 35, 52–3, 59–60, 62, 69, 72, 87, 89, 92, 96, 98–9, 101, 103, 111, 114, 116, 122, 135, 141–2, 159–60, 163, 166–9

correctness, 43–5, 71

dilemma, 26

politicians, 5, 101, 103

politics, of difference, 39, 53, 129, 167

of embarrassment, 18

racial, 18, 29, 69, 81, 154

of recognition, 39, 111, 114, 116, 129, 159, 165, 169

postcolonial, 9–10, 37, 121, 135, 143

post-settler, 9–10, 16, 35, 58, 76, 80, 90, 95, 100, 132–3, 139, 141, 151, 168

poverty, 2, 21, 35, 37, 139, 142

Povinelli, Elizabeth, 39, 112, 115, 117, 122–3, 132–3

power, 13, 15–6, 21, 26–8, 32, 36–7, 52, 57, 92, 115, 117, 121, 123, 135, 139, 144–7, 155, 167

ambiguous, 122–4

privilege, 2, 11–18, 23, 28, 42, 49–50, 52, 54, 93, 98, 111, 133–41, 47, 151–2, 154–5, 169

progressive, 2–4, 6, 11–2, 17, 22, 24, 32–4, 38, 59–61, 92, 102, 113, 131, 135–7, 143, 160–1, 163, 167

public spaces, 12, 74

race, 2–3, 9, 11–3, 15, 17, 23–4, 29, 42, 50, 53, 59–60, 64, 69, 81, 95, 111, 113, 136, 140, 144–5, 166–8

critical, 140

hierarchies, 113

mixed, 63–4, 135

racial. See race

racialised. See race

racism. See race

racist, 10–2, 23, 27–8, 33, 37, 49, 58, 69, 73, 81, 89, 91–104, 110, 116, 124–5, 135, 148. See also race

rationality, 37, 114

recognition, conditional, 16, 111, 115, 117, 146

contingency of, 128

cunning of, 112, 115, 122

mutual, 109–130

space of, 17, 111, 115–121, 123, 129, 164

state, 111

see also politics of recognition

reconciliation, 59, 61, 87, 90–1, 98, 100–101

remediable difference. See difference, remediable

remedialism, 16, 36, 48, 49–50, 120, 129, 161, 166. See also difference, remediable

renal disease. See disease

representation, 8, 10, 23–4, 28–9, 43, 93, 98, 100, 118, 121, 144

rheumatic fever. See disease

rights, 10, 71, 112–4

human, 48, 114, 163

Indigenous, 11–2, 29, 33, 35, 58, 61, 96, 101, 107, 111–2, 114–5, 119, 126, 131, 135, 163, 165

land. See land rights

ritual, 16, 87–92, 96–106, 120

Rowse, Tim, 54, 164

Royal Darwin Hospital, 64

Russell, Lynette, 169

sameness. See culture, sameness

school, 2, 7, 9, 23–4, 35, 38, 40, 42, 46–7, 60, 62, 64, 66–8, 71, 114, 121, 160. See also education

self-determination, 2, 5–7, 9, 21, 28, 34, 51, 131–3, 144, 148, 150, 159–64, 166, 168

self-identification, 5

settler colonialism. See colonialism

sexuality, 42

smoking, 4, 7, 9, 40–1, 45, 47, 49

ceremony, 89, 97

social,

exclusion, 36, 111–13, 167–8

justice, 53, 103, 113, 132

life, 5, 38, 46, 64

outcomes, 9, 15

system, 34

world, 31

sorcerer. See sorcery

sorcery, 58, 79–81, 85

stigma, 16, 47

white, 17, 34, 92, 95, 104, 131–58, 164, 169

Stolen Generations, 3, 48, 60, 64, 99, 103, 159, 161, 172

structure, 13, 42, 45, 111, 148

subjectivity, 11, 13, 18, 24, 33–4, 38, 48–9, 52–3, 93, 109, 116, 118–22, 132–4, 141, 148, 163, 169

substance abuse, 38, 42, 54, 161. See also alcohol

suicide. See death

symbolic, 58, 69, 87, 96, 98–100, 104, 122, 124, 141, 155

syphilis. See disease

system,

belief, 33–4, 36, 39, 41, 47–8, 51, 113, 120, 144, 151, 161–2, 164, 167

knowledge, 6, 33, 59, 69, 71, 79, 95, 124

social, 34, 54

Taylor, Charles, 39, 114

tobacco, 7, 41, 58, 80–1. See also smoking

tokenism, 90, 94, 97–8, 102–3

tradition, 6, 67, 71, 87–8, 90–1, 115, 121, 124, 129

Traditional Owners, 1, 16, 64, 65, 71, 85, 87–91, 93, 96–8, 103–6

tribe, 33, 62, 91, 96, 115

values, 5, 8, 102, 114, 126, 144

liberal, 44

violence, 4, 9–10, 25, 29, 38, 50, 66, 71–2, 80, 94, 99, 104, 152–3, 155, 160–2

epistemological, 24, 101

Welcome to Country, 16, 24, 87–108

welfare, 6, 38, 64, 76–7, 112, 126, 133, 160, 162, 171

dependency, 35, 119, 160

whitefella, 98

whiteness, 9, 11, 16, 24, 31, 92, 104, 117, 134–6, 138–41, 145–51, 153–5, 169

studies, 11–2, 17–8, 135, 137, 155, 157

women, 2, 3, 14, 60 66, 93, 112, 146, 152–3

World Health Organization, 2

Yolngu, 79