A timely read, and frequently enjoyable and illuminating, though I found myself skimming after a while - an anthropologist's perspective on the policy-makers, program managers and public health practitioners involved in the NT's Indigenous health system, the human and social dimensions of the systems of the state, the 'magical' quality of the policy process (in the sense of the qualities attributed to various rituals and artefacts of the process - workshops, inductions, strategic policy statements, etc), and its self-perpetuating nature in its framing of problems and interventions at the interface with Aboriginal communities, experiences and health outcomes.
