There has been an increasing number of instances of small groups of Aborigines breaking away from missions and settlements and adopting a more remote satellite role. This tendency to form smaller and more homogeneous communities can be understood as one response to the complex problems created by contact with our society - a move towards a more traditional type of relationship between societies based upon agreed mutual obligation without mutual interference.

It is true that the people who are belonging to a particular area are really part of that area and if that area is destroyed, they are also destroyed. In my travels throughout Australia, I have met many Aborigines from other parts who have lost their culture. They have always lost their land, and by losing their land they have lost part of themselves.