ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the lighthearted representation of young Indigenous men's movement across their Country as an enactment of mobility justice. It outlines the story presented in Black As as a refusal of the historical and contemporary forces that have sought to constrain Indigenous mobilities and deny Indigenous sovereignty. The series stands as a timely reminder that mobility justice is a quality that inheres not simply in the capacity of individuals to freely move across generic space, which is usually celebrated as a right conferred by modernity. As in Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory, the yard of the Ramingining Police Station holds a number of late-model cars in perfect order — except for a missing transponder key, which is essential to start the engine and unlock the steering. The mobilities portrayed in Black As should be read within the broader context of the Intervention and its ramifications for Indigenous masculinities in remote communities.
