Abstract
Concept of Aboriginality is examined from ideas of biological descent, cultural maintenance and political resistance; Kevin Keeffe interprets Aboriginality as an ideology of two not necessarily mutually exclusive themes - Aboriginality as persistence and Aboriginality as resistance; discourse of Aboriginality as genetic inheritance or as cultural continuity is limiting, but as resistance, Aboriginality is better able to incorporate all those who identity as Aborigines and to challenge most ideologies on which the category Aboriginal has been historically constructed.