Autonomy and identity: Aspects of political development on the Gazelle Peninsula

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Abstract
The Mataungan Association is a political body whose central purpose, from its inception in 1969, has been to mobilize Tolai opposition to the Gazelle Multi‐Racial Council, which replaced the former all‐Tolai Gazelle Local Government Council. This paper seeks to set these events in a wider perspective by relating the emergence of Mataungan to a range of forces which are changing the social and political structure of the area, and in particular to a heightening tension between the demands of dependency on the one hand and the drive for autonomy on the other. The analysis goes on to raise a number of questions about ethnicity as a factor in contemporary New Guinea politics.

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