Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Aileen Moreton-Robinson -- Pt I: Law matters. 1. Sett led and unsettled spaces: are we free to roam? / Irene Watson -- 2. Mis construing indigenous sovereignty: maintaining the fabric of Australian law / Philip Falk and Gary Martin -- 3. Indigenous sovereignty rights: international law and the protection of traditional ecological knowled ge / Henrietta Marrie -- Pt II: Writing matters. 4. Dancing with shadow s: erasing aboriginal self and sovereignty / Philip Morrissey -- 5. The sovereign Aboriginal woman / Tracey Bunda -- 5. Writing off indigenous sovereignty: the discourse of security and patriarchal white sovereign ty / Aileen Moreton-Robinson -- Pt III: History matters. 7. 'The invisi ble fire': indigenous sovereignty, history and responsibility / Tony Bi rch -- 8. The Australian Labor Party and the Native Title Act / Gary Fo ley -- 9. That sovereign being: history matters / Wendy Brady -- Pt IV: Policy matters. 10. Indigenous sovereignty and the Australian state: r elations in a globalising era / Maggie Walter -- 11. Locating indigenou s sovereignty: race and research in indigenous health policy-making / S teve Larkin -- 12. Welfare dependancy and mutual obligation: negating i ndigenous sovereignty / Darryl Cronin.