Indigenous people in remote and rural Australia are frequently moving between places. Movement was and still is the key to the maintenance of both relationships to places and to kin in Aboriginal Australia. This is despite a period of 100 years or more when the government employed strategies to disrupt traditional Aboriginal social and geographic patterns. These movements are motivated by a distinct range of sociocultural, economic and political factors and aspirations. There exists what might be described as a culture of mobility amongst the Aboriginal population of Australia.
