Making and Breaking the Aboriginal Remote: Realities, Languages, Tomorrows (A Commentary)

The concept of 'remote' has intensified a fundamental misunderstanding of widespread rural Aboriginal situations. More, it has served to mask the causality for current problems, which will remain intractable until causality is effectively addressed. This commentary re-examines how 'remote' is produced, both by and within the dominant state and society and, by means of a reconsideration of demand sharing and long-distance travel, from and within Aboriginal communities. On that basis new kinds of confrontational engagements with the production of remote are suggested.