The last decade has seen a flourishing of scholarship which examines the importance of the movement—coerced and free—of Indigenous peoples around Australasia and beyond. This round table showcases the importance of paying attention to a broad spectrum of Indigenous movement than has to date been attended to by scholars working in the area. We pay attention to the issue of scale—how, in the context of Australian settler colonialism, small movements into and out of particular buildings, across highways and along roads, had meanings that could make them momentous. How long distance travel impacted the histories and sovereignty of specific Indigenous nations.  And how the government archive barely captured much Indigenous movement – or its significance – such as the movement of a family from one town to another in search of employment or housing. The roundtable will also address the ethics and efficacy of the framework of mobility. Does a focus on mobility fall into a similar trap as that laid by global and transnational turn: can it make us miss the specifics of the Aboriginal experience and collapse the category of Aboriginal nations? Or, does it also open up the possibility of using Aboriginal mobilities, forced and free, to think about the formation of new identities over time that operate on different scales? Can mobility help us think about the openness, flexibility, and resistance of Aboriginal political formations? Or is there a danger that the framework of mobility will simply reinscribe colonial categories and geographies, continuing to silence and marginalise Indigenous perspectives?