ABSTRACT
Neoliberalism' recognises no tension between equality and equity: it is all about assimilation, mainstreaming, integration and normalisation. There is little room for cultural diversity and difference or for engagement with democratically elected Indigenous voices. The binary relationship, though shifting back and forth, will always return a position of power to non-Aboriginal people as they are the most powerful in their own construction. Aboriginal people find themselves forever trapped in an ongoing process of colonisation in such a way that colonisation becomes almost the perfect system of invasion and assimilation, unavoidable and unstoppable. The idea that racism is engrained in the fabric of society is not unique to Australia where critical race theory determines that institutional racism is embedded deep within the psyche of the dominant white culture, which is far more influential and damaging than any individual racist.
