ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the citizenship of Australian Indigenous women. The contemporary Australian political discourse on Indigeneity is the overtly compelling element in how Indigenous women's citizenship is socially and structurally enacted. As a primary institution of the modern democratic state, citizenship sits at the center of deliberations of globalization's impact on nation-states. The chapter explores the impact of globalization on citizenship rights, especially for Indigenous women, is illustrated by case studies of recent policy changes. The abandonment of self-determination as the official philosophy underpinning the relationship between Indigenous people and the state is manifested in the 2005 demise of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). In the neoliberal discourse of globalization the debate on which cluster of rights has primacy has taken a steady turn in favor of civil and political rights. The scale of the Northern Territory Intervention and its ongoing developments limit the ability to fully review its relationship to civil citizenship.
