By examining the root causes of aboriginal problems, Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard expose the industry that has grown up around land claim settlements, showing that aboriginal policy development over the past thirty years has been manipulated by non-aboriginal lawyers and consultants. They analyse all the major aboriginal policies, examine issues that have received little critical attention - child care, health care, education, traditional knowledge - and propose the comprehensive government provision of health, education, and housing rather than deficient delivery through Native self-government.

"Distorbing the Aboriginal Industry does an excellent job of pointing out logical inconsistencies in the aboriginal political movement a matter of great practical as well as academic importance."
- Tom Flanagan, author of First Nations? Second Thoghts