- 1. Crisis of identity : Aboriginal politics, the media and the law
- The Brewarrina riot : a summary
- The media riot
- The trial riot
- Royal Commission and indigenising crime
- 2. Neoliberalism and indigenous rights in New South Wales
- The new political order
- Repealing the Aboriginal Land Rights Act
- A post-bureaucratic public service
- Self-sufficiency, not dependency
- The Perkins report : strategic retreat
- Removing land rights from the postcolonial landscape
- 3. Firm government : state of siege
- Law and order in New South Wales
- Punishing crime
- Law and order in north-western New South Wales
- State of siege
- 4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the north west
- The north west as contested space
- Policing cultural borderlands
- Postcolonial subjects
- Contingent jurisprudence
- 5. Police testimony and the Brewarrina riot trial (co-authored with Kerry Zubrinich)
- A prosecution account of the riot
- What is a riot?
- Power relations in the courtroom
- 6. Aborigines behaving badly : legal realism and paternalism
- The evidentiary effect of video
- Bodies in pain and paternalism
- Docile bodies and Aborigines behaving badly
- Legal realism and paternalism.
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