This chapter draws on the paradox of the “missing child” in some colonial art to explore the racial dimensions of Australia’s recent Section 22C bail law reforms in New South Wales, suggesting that the Aboriginal child—the subject of the law, the body upon which the law descends, the object of its carceral tendencies—is conspicuously absent from the text. Comparing it to the widely criticized Northern Territory Intervention of 2007, the chapter suggests that the more recent bail laws changes are potentially even more insidious, in obfuscating questions of race while clearly targeting Aboriginal people for the benefit of the (mainly) white community. Drawing on Slavoj Žižek’s distinction between “subjective” and “objective violence”, the chapter argues that these legal discourses serve to deflect a confrontation with the brutality of colonization.