Private Politics, Public Strategies: White Advisers and Their Aboriginal Subjects‪.‬

INTRODUCTION Arguably, there are now more non-Aboriginals working to 'empower' Aboriginals than ever before. In a speech delivered in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in 2002, John Ah Kit--the first Aboriginal to hold a ministerial post in the Northern Territory--pointed to the 'enormous growth in the number of non-Indigenous people' working in Aboriginal community organisations (N.T. News 2002:1). Indeed, in the Northern Territory, a mass of white 'community workers' currently form an extensive network of Aboriginal organisation employees, some of whom have worked for such bodies since their inception.