“…In combining 150 program areas down to five priorities, the national IAS argued a framework within which children attend school and adults go to work in safe communities will ensure the wellbeing and health of residents (Australian Government, 2014b). This does not readily account for the ways that markets may intersect with and value remote Aboriginal custom, capacity or advantage (Larkin, 2009;Lovell, 2015;Zander et al, 2014), nor value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander longitudinal temporal and sovereign corporate knowledge (Ardill, 2013;Babie, 2013;Morrison, 2015). The IAS is aligned with Australia's liberal welfare policy, which is one of the major mechanisms through which the nation redistributes wealth in ways that provide for the marginalised and disadvantaged (Whiteford, 2015).…”