ABSTRACT
Peter Sutton's monograph The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus had drawn much interest since its publication in 2009, as it argued that the well-publicized conditions of remote Indigenous communities in Australia were in a substantial way the result of their residents' persistent "classical social behaviors". Noel Pearson's reform agenda hopes to help Indigenous people move between cultures from Cape York to New York. A sociological framework underpinned the medical and moral policies, many administrators professing that employment and cultivated monogamous patriarchal and matriarchal obligation would elicit all the desired elements of a settled life and social responsibility. Pearson's conceptual solutions to the deficit of responsibility have emerged in the years since Our Right and primarily revolve around a teleology of individualism. The twin to the governmental dream is the reality of the recent policy interventions in Cape York Peninsula, where the result has been an institutionally dense administrative order of rolling reform.
