Tim Rowse's book Indigenous Futures: Choice and Development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia, published by UNSW Press, was launched on 26 September 2002 by The Hon. Hal Wootten AC QC, Royal Commissioner into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1988-91). Indigenous Futures synthesises ten years of CAEPR research. In the book launch address reproduced below, Hal Wootten discusses the book and addresses some of its central themes.