Abstract
In this chapter, I explore the Commonwealth Government’s Intervention into seventy-three targeted Aboriginal communities across Northern and Central Australia. I argue that a site of Indigenous resistance constructed by the Alyawarr people, Protest House, powerfully articulates the ways in which this policy continues the biopolitical regimes of racial warfare instantiated with white invasion. The chapter demonstrates how race operates within the settler-colonial state’s neoliberal agenda, notions of “private property”, and representations of housing in an attempt to reproduce and secure white sovereignty.
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Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 (NT).
Northern Territory Aboriginals Ordinance 1911 (Cth).
Northern Territory Aboriginals Act 1910 (SA).
Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 (Cth).
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Kramer, J. (2016). Securing Sovereignty: Private Property, Indigenous Resistance, and the Rhetoric of Housing. In: Randell-Moon, H., Tippet, R. (eds) Security, Race, Biopower. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55408-6_10
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