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The introduction of Indigenous land tenure reform in Australia was accompanied by strikingly neoliberal rhetoric. This chapter compares that language with the outcome of the reforms themselves. It argues that for the most part the reforms are better characterised in terms of paternalism. While it can be described as neoliberal paternalism, it is the paternal elements of the reforms that are most significant.