Native title, fictions and \u27convenient falsehoods\u27

The fiction of Australia as \u27terra nullius\u27 was officially discarded by the High Court of Australia in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992), so far as the preexisting rights to land of Indigenous Australians were concerned. But an alternative fiction continues to perform a similar role, and continues to influence public discourse. It, too, would justify the continuing displacement of what may remain of Indigenous peoples\u27 property rights. The fiction is usually expressed in the catchphrase \u27land management is a prerogative of the States\u27. This fiction is given ample accommodation in the Native Title Amendment Bill 1997 (\u27the NTAB\u27)

Digital work and play: Mobile technologies and new ways of feeling at home

In this article, we advance current discussions by bringing together debates about digital play and digital labour. We consider everyday life entanglements of mobile media and digital work and play at home. To develop this argument, we analyse the embodied and affective dimensions of mundane everyday life at home with digital media through the concepts of atmosphere and ambient play. We argue that attention to how digital play is implicated in the constitution of texture and feeling of the everyday needs to underpin our understanding of how mobile media are participating in shifts in everyday experiences of work and home. In doing so, we draw on ethnographic research undertaken with middle-class families in Melbourne, Australia