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actors (remote nurses) have to demonstrate that the interests of all (emphasis added) other actors lie in attaining the same goal(s). For example A, the controlling actor seeks to enrol B and C. If B wants to achieve a similar goal conjointly with A, for whatever reason, and C hopes to preserve their beneficial relationship with A, for whatever their reasons, then C must know and want to ‘answer’ the problematised question postulated by A, while recognising that their alliance around this question benefits each of them. Psychiatrists want to achieve the alleviation of mental health suffering, police strive for low levels of societal (community) unrest and disruption in remote communities arising from mental health issues and RFDS endeavour to be the most efficacious in the rationing of its resources when providing services (and providing a quality service). Actors will become enrolled in the network because they perceive that their interests align with others within it (i.e. helping remote nurses deliver mental healthcare). Enrolment is not automatic but occurs through negotiation and persuasion to convince them that the controlling actor’s (remote nurses) network will assist them in achieving their own goals (Latour, 1987). The primary actor can tap into each of these to seductively ensure assistance. Enrolment is not a unilateral imposition. It entails both the capturing of the other actor’s willingness and them yielding (Callon, 1986a). For Latour (1986), power is not a possession, but an arrangement of assent: Power is always the illusion people get when they are obeyed … [they] discover what their power is really made of when they start to lose it … it was [made of] the wills of all the others...power [is] a consequence and not a cause of collective action. (p. 173)