Predators and perpetrators: cultures of white settler violence in so-called Australia

White settlers across the continent now known as Australia have violently imposed on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives since first contact and continue to do so through digital communication technologies. This chapter examines how a culture of white violence toward Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples occurs both offline and online, applying Indigenous queer and feminist analysis to situate this violence within broader settings of settler colonialism and colonial heteropatriarchy. The chapter analyzes online discourse and predatory behavior from white settlers within larger systems of violence that service settler colonial societies. It troubles the distinction between offline and online violence and considers how hierarchies of desirability are reproduced in each. Finally, it argues that while there is significant attention to those targeted by white settlers, there is need for greater attention paid to the predators and perpetrators who enact violence in online and offline spaces.