Eve Vincent is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University. This essay is drawn from a forthcoming book, ‘Against Native Title’: Everyday Aboriginal Identities in Outback Australia, which will be published by Aboriginal Studies Press later this year. Eve is the co-editor of Unstable Relations: Indigenous People and Environmentalism in Contemporary Australia (UWA, 2016) and History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies (UTS ePRESS, 2014).