Abbott v Wilson

, 56

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC)

, 132

Aboriginal children in Australia

, 15

Aboriginal Community Liaison Officer (ACLO)

, 89

Aboriginal deaths in custody

, 13

Aboriginal driving criminalisation and reinforcement by courts

, 45–49

Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory) 1976 (Cth)

, 18, 26–28

Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS)

, 35–36, 83

Aboriginal Natives

, 11

Aboriginal Ordinance 1911

, 16

Aboriginal pedestrian deaths in Northern Territory

, 106–108

Aboriginal Protection Acts

, 14, 24

Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897

, 14–15

Aborigines Progressive Association

, 18

Alice Springs/Mparntwe

, 85, 111, 133

Ankinyi Wirranjiki

, 137–138

Aotearoa police

, 81

Assimilation

, 13

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

, 27

Australian Capital Territory (ACT)

, 35–36

Australian cinematic portrayals

, 63–64

Australian Institute of Criminology

, 79–80

Automobility (see also Necroautomobility)

, 19–23

contested community space of night patrols

, 135–143

first nations automobility and sovereignty

, 145–147

night patrols and first nations automobility

, 131–133

shifting western lens on

, 3–5

sovereign service

, 133–135

unsettling automobilities and conflicting sovereignties

, 147–151

women, law and first nations automobility

, 143–145

Backroads

, 64

Black Lives Matter Movement

, 68

Blackroads (Noyce, 1977)

, 23–24

Block, The

, 88

British Crown land

, 104–105

British Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes

, 13

Brutal ‘summary justice’

, 44

Bush Mechanics television series

, 2, 146, 155–156

Carceral

, 154

mobility

, 6

Carceralism

, 154

Carcuro v Norris

, 54–55

Cars and carceralism in Northern Territory

, 30–32

Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Services (‘CAALAS’)

, 45

Central Australian Youth Link-Up Service (CAYLUS)

, 144

Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety–Queensland

, 35

Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The (Schepisi, 1978)

, 19, 68, 70–72, 104–105

Charlie’s Country (2013)

, 146–147

Chase

, 70

Choolum v Heath

, 47–48, 54

Cinematic representations of colonial chase

, 68–75

Colonial automobilities

dialectics of

, 1–2

impacts

, 6

Colonial Automobility

, 5

Colonial carceralism and unsettling sovereignty

, 6–9

Colonial chase

, 64–65

cinematic representations

, 68–75

Colonial highways

, 122

Colonial processes of enforced mobility and immobility

automobility and colonisation

, 19–23

colonial histories

, 11–13

enforced dispossession and immobility

, 13–19

first nations peoples access

, 23–28

Colonial violence

, 12–13

Colonialism

, 24

Colonialism redux

, 58–59

Colonisation

, 19–23

Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1901 (Imp)

, 71–72

Cop It Sweet (Brockie, 1992)

, 23–24, 81–82

Court system

, 43

Aboriginal driving criminalisation and reinforcement by courts

, 45–49

assertions of first nations automobility and judicial responses

, 53–58

broken windows and aboriginal cars

, 52–53

imposition of colonial state’s expectations

, 58–59

judicial narratives

, 49–52

Criminal justice system

, 24

Criminalisation

, 50–51

Cultural imagination

, 64–68

Culture

, 135

Darwin and Alice Springs

, 32

Davis v Howley

, 49

‘Death in custody’

, 80

Deathscape

, 100

Dialectics of colonial automobilities

, 1–2

Dickson v Houseman

, 48–49, 57

Dispossession

, 11

enforced

, 13–19

Doherty, Elijah

, 111–121

court’s construction of vehicle

, 120

downplaying dangerous speed for first nations victims

, 119–120

failure to deter white vigilantism

, 118–119

minimising harm

, 120–121

racial disparities in sentencing dangerous driving

, 116–117

unwilling to recognise recklessness

, 117–118

white settler stories

, 114–116

Driver licences

, 32–36

Driving

, 39

Driving offence trifecta

, 32

Driving trifecta

, 54

European imperial discourses

, 103–104

Fatal colonial hunts

, 105

Finding Dawn by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh (Welsh, 2006)

, 124

First Nations Automobility

, 131, 133, 143, 145, 147

First Nations community

, 24, 116

First Nations deaths

, 80

First Nations drivers

, 29, 46

First Nations law, culture and language

, 136–137

First Nations lives

, 79

First Nations mobility

, 43–44

First Nations peoples

, 1–2, 43, 153

access

, 23–28

alarming source of deaths

, 82

capacity

, 4

containment

, 17

enslavement

, 15

exclusion

, 18

lives

, 79

motor vehicles

, 7

movement

, 7

in remote communities

, 29–30

strengths

, 48–49

systemic racial exclusion

, 25

traffic stops

, 3

treatment

, 11–12

First Nations sovereignty

, 153

First Nations Victims

, 119–120

Forced labour

, 13

Funding of night patrols

, 148

Gordon’s Law

, 84

Gribble Creek Reserve

, 113

Health clinics

, 34–35

Highway ‘sovereignty camp’

, 157

Highway of Tears

, 121–127

decolonising knowledges and justice resources on MMIWG

, 126–127

embodying and resisting lived experience of racial violence

, 123–124

expression in film

, 124–125

indigenous marches and safety campaigns

, 125–126

Hitchhiking

, 126

Homelands

, 27–28

Immobility

, 13–19

Imposition of colonial state’s expectations

, 58–59

Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA)

, 98

Indian Act 1876

, 13

Indigenous families

, 105–106

Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA)

, 89–92

Insurance and road-worthy vehicles

, 32–36

Jakurrpa

, 144

Jalalikari night patrol

, 133

James v Burgoyne

, 48

Jedda (Chauvel, 1955)

, 19, 70–71

Jongmin v Phipps

, 49

Judicial narratives

, 44, 49, 52

#JusticeForElijah movement

, 112

Kelly v Winzar

, 47

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

, 132–133

Lajamanu community

, 39

Lalara v Malogorski

, 55–56

Law

, 143–145

Licensing Pilot Project

, 35–36

Lutumba v State of Western Australia

, 118

Māori death chases

, 79

Marshall v Court

, 57

Massacre Map

, 11–12

Memorandum of understanding (MOU)

, 148–149

Mick v Burgoyne

, 53

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

, 122

decolonising knowledges and justice resources on

, 126–127

Missionaries

, 15

Moral indignation

, 47

Motor vehicle

, 4, 7, 9, 19, 23, 73–74, 123, 153, 155–156

Motor Vehicle Act 1949 (NT)

, 31

Motor Vehicle Registries (MVRs)

, 26

Mt Theo Youth Diversionary Program

, 144

Necro-transport

, 79

Necroautomobility

, 1–2, 6, 63, 155

cinematic representations of colonial chase

, 68–75

lack of accountability for

, 87–100

Merbyn Drage and Trisjack Simpson

, 94–95

necrochase in colonial Australia

, 64–68

Pacer Willacy-Scott and Hoani Korewha

, 98–100

police chase through cinematic lens

, 75–77

Raymond Noel Thomas

, 96–97

TJ Hickey

, 87–94

Necrochase in colonial Australia

, 64–68

Necropolitics

, 1–2

Neo-colonial interventions

cars and carceralism in Northern Territory

, 30–32

driver licences, insurance and road-worthy vehicles

, 32–36

unroadworthy roads

, 36–37

Warlpiri responses to Northern territory government’s driving regulations

, 37–40

Neutral laws

, 37

Ngurra Kurlu

, 144

Night Patrols

, 131–133

authorities and community

, 138–139

contested community space

, 135–143

initiatives

, 2, 9

and multifaceted safety roles

, 140–143

Non-First Nations drivers

, 43–44, 46–47

North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (‘NAAJA’)

, 45

Northern Territory (NT)

, 18, 44

cars and carceralism in

, 30–32

Intervention

, 5, 7, 24, 26–27, 132–133

legislation

, 110–111

National Emergency Response

, 5

Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 (Cth)

, 24, 26–27

Occupier colonialism

, 11

Oppression of colonisation

, 1

Outstations

, 27–28

Ownership

, 57

Patriarchal white sovereignty

, 32

Patrol vehicle

, 135

Patrollers

, 139

Peach v Toohey

, 52

Pedestrian deaths

, 106

Police brutality

, 79

Police chase

, 63

through cinematic lens

, 75–77

Police death chases in Urban Australia

, 81–83

Police pursuit

, 82, 85–86

Police vehicle

, 79

Policing blitz

, 29

Post-millennia colonial cop chase and apologists

, 83–87

Post-segregation policing

, 7

‘Proclamation of Governor Bourke 1835’, The (UK)

, 11

Rabbit Proof Fence (Noyce, 2002)

, 20, 68, 73

Race neutral laws

, 32

Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)

, 27

Racial disparities in sentencing dangerous driving

, 116–117

Racial violence, embodying and resisting lived experience of

, 123–124

Redfern Police

, 81–82

Remote Areas Licensing Program

, 35–36

Remote communities

, 34–35

Rigby v Benfell

, 52

Road safety

, 36

Road Traffic Act 1974

, 115

Ross v Toohey

, 57

Royal Commission

, 80

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC)

, 83–84

Ryder, Kwementyaye

, 108–111

family and community

, 111

Ute 5 trial

, 109–111

Safety

, 135

Security vehicle as site of death

, 100

Settler necroautomobility

, 103

aboriginal pedestrian deaths in Northern Territory

, 106–108

Elijah Doherty and Settler Hunt in Kalgoorlie-Boulder

, 111–121

Highway of Tears

, 121–127

Kwementyaye Ryder

, 108–111

Settler relations

, 103–104

Settler-colonial authority

, 79

Settlers

, 103

Slave Map

, 16

Sovereign service

, 133–135

Sovereignty

, 1–2, 145, 147

Speed cameras

, 30

State carceral formations

, 103–104

State of Western Australia v Francis, The

, 119

Stolen Generations

, 20–22

of First Nations children

, 7

Stronger Futures Act 2012 (Cth)

, 24

Submissions

, 54

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

, 44

Supreme Court of Western Australia

, 116

Systemic racism in colonial police chase

, 79–81

Tanami Network in Yuendumu

, 132–133

Tangentyere Patrollers

, 138–139

Tennant Creek/Jurnkurakurr

, 133

Terra nullas

, 153

Terra nullius

, 11, 71, 104

Timbrell v State of Western Australia

, 119–120

Traffic Act 1987 (NT)

, 31, 46

Traffic regulations

, 30

Unearthing Justices Resource Collection (UJRC)

, 127

Unroadworthy roads

, 36–37

Unsettling Colonial Automobilities

, 2

Ute 5 trial

, 109–111

Vehicle responsibility

, 57–58

Violence of colonisation

, 1

Violent racism

, 112

Warlpiri responses to Northern territory government’s driving regulations

, 37–40

Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation (WYDAC)

, 38

Warlpiri youth group

, 35

Warlukurlangu Arts Centre

, 144

Western Australian Aboriginal Legal Service

, 100

White possessiveness

, 106

White power

, 150–151

White settler stories

, 114–116

White vigilantism

, 118–119

Whiteness

, 81

Women

, 143–145

Yuendumu Warlpiri community

, 24–25

Zero tolerance policing

, 39