Introduced in 2016, the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) is part of a welfare policy trial designed to restrict and direct the expenditure of Aboriginal people receiving a range of government benefits. In this article, I explain that the CDC, also referred to as the “White Card,” appeases the concerns of non‐Aboriginal residents and broader Australia and that government is attempting to ameliorate Aboriginal dysfunction. I offer an account of income management in daily life from the perspective of those living with the Card in the East Kimberley town of Wyndham. I describe it as interconnected to a broader range of suite of government policies and enmeshed in broader social and political relations. Focused on participant observation and interviews undertaken with Wyndham residents in the period immediately after the introduction of the Card, this perspective is informed by longer‐term research in the region since 2013. I show that the Card acts as a quotidian form of disciplining surveillance against Aboriginal people. It is also a site of reinterpretation and rearticulation through the development of subversive practices by Aboriginal people, what I describe as the labour of endurance: Card holders are trying to endure its effects and manage its invasiveness into their lives.

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“白卡”为灰色：监控，耐力和无现金借记卡

无现金借记卡（CDC）于2016年推出，是一项福利政策试验的一部分，该试验旨在限制和指导接受各种政府补助的原住民支出。在本文中，我解释说，疾病预防控制中心（也称为“白卡”）可以缓解非土著居民和整个澳大利亚的担忧，并且政府正在努力减轻土著居民的机能障碍。我从在东金伯利镇温德姆（Wyndham）持卡的人的角度介绍了日常生活中的收入管理。我将其描述为与更广泛的一系列政府政策相互关联，并陷入更广泛的社会和政治关系中。着重于在引入证卡后的时期内对参与者进行的观察和对温德姆居民的采访，自2013年以来对该地区进行的长期研究为这一观点提供了依据。我证明了该证是对原住民进行纪律监视的一种奉献主义形式。通过原住民的颠覆性实践的发展，这也是一个重新诠释和重新定位的场所，我称之为耐力劳动：持卡人正试图忍受其影响并管理其对生活的侵害。