In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, the focus of this chapter, the mining boom - or the 'ramp up' in production as it is referred to within the industry - is such that negotiations for land access have intensified and annual payments to the Indigenous organisations examined here have...

Recently referred to as ‘recreational lifestyles’ (Johns 2009:22), the various socio-economic choices that some Aboriginal people make, in remote areas especially, are often contrasted with how these same people should be operating in the ‘real economy’. There is considerable debate...