[wg-review] FW: Press Release from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra,Australia.

[Len Lindon <info@humanrights.com.au>]

Essential reading for anyone planning to come to Melbourne in March
for the ICANN Carnivale. Presumably those coming will want to seek
formal permission from the Original Owners of the Land to "camp" in
Melbourne for a week.
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PRESS RELEASE
from the 
Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, Australia.
The Aboriginal People of this country will congregate at
the Tent Embassy to oppose the celebrations of
Federation
11am
New Years Day 2001
We are not dancing on our peoples’ graves
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy In Canberra, Australia wishes to state the
following in the memory of our Ancestors and the
survival of our much loved people.
To those who are in denial of the true meaning of the Federation, this
is to remind you that a war began in
this continent in 1788 by the British Crown against unarmed human
beings, who will continue to stand,
defending our sacred lands, as our ancestors did before us.
The original Colonial Validation Acts (setting up the colonies) never
gained informed consent from original owners. These
illegal colonies were then combined to form the Federation of States in
1901, without consultation with the 500 Aboriginal
Nations, who are the custodians of the most sacred Lore/Law on earth,
caretakers and guardians of this Country, Sacred
Land of the Dreaming, now known as Australia.
From 1770 to 1992 the acts of invasion were perpetuated under the legal
myth of terra nullius (land belonging to no one). In
1992 the continuation of this cover up came in the guise of the Churches
attempt to exonerate their guilt under the smoke
screen of Reconciliation which also urges Aboriginal people of the
continent and Aboriginal Nations to embrace
multiculturalism. Yet multiculturalism does not embrace and recognise
Aboriginal Sovereignty.
Today, illegal aliens celebrate the one hundred years of these notorious
legal fictions which attempt to legitimize occupation
of our lands and the continued attempt of genocide.
Australia is one of the last countries in the world that still has a
Racially Discriminatory Constitution. This was recognised in
the Hindmarsh Island Case (Katinyeri v The Commonwealth [1998] HCA 22 (1
April 1998)).
The case described the Section in the Australian Constitution 51(xxvi…)
as racially discriminating as the terms of reference
allows the Australian Government to constitute laws that subjugate
Aboriginal People for the colour of our skin, our belief in
Mother Earth and our understanding of the Universe. The High Court used
this section to intentionally continue the overt system of apartheid.
In this case Justice Kirby equates the Australian Constitution to " the
laws of Germany and South Africa …" . Kirby also
issued this warning "Both in Germany and South Africa the special laws
enacted would probably have been regarded as
unthinkable but a decade before they were made. They stand as a warning
to us in the elaboration of our Constitution. ".
United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has
placed Australia on their early warning and urgent
action procedures because of the racially discriminatory Native Title
Acts which extinguish the land rights of Aboriginal
Peoples in favour of non-Aboriginal vested interests. The Native Title
Act requires the Traditional Owners of the Aboriginal
Nations to prove their Aboriginality. In response to this demeaning and
disrespectful process "We challenge the Federal
Court to prove we are not."
The current coercion for the rapid development under the Indigenous Land
Use Agreements seeks to utilise land at the
expense of the environment and against the wishes of the Aboriginal
Custodians of the land, by way of forcing negotiations
without full consultation of all Aboriginal people concerned. The
Australian Government has teamed up with private and
foreign investors to utilise the 1998 Amendments to the Native Title Act
for profit in a corrupt process that is a conflict of
interest by the Australian Government at the expense of Aboriginal Human
Rights. The Australian government justifies this
as being in the "National Interest" on behalf of Advance Australia Fair.
The answer is No, because the developers are illegal occupants of this
continent and so all negotiations and contracts are
not legal and binding. Despite the current government laws Aboriginal
people assert our right to veto mining, other
developments and sales of our land to foreign investors and absentee
landlords.
Without our right of veto it is an apartheid system that enables
Genocide with a clear intent to destroy a race of human
beings who are the oldest cultures known on Earth.
The celebrations of apartheid and genocide are condemned by the owners
of this country and wish to express our sadness
for the victims that have experienced the human violations of the
British Empire and their constituents since 1788.
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, Australia would like to notify
Australia and the Australian Government that the
Indigenous people of this Country will not dance on our Ancestors
Graves.
To the five hundred Indigenous Nations of Australia we must live as our
ancestors have lived and obey the Sacred Lore/Law
that has been left in our care.
The Australian Governments Hidden Agenda must be exposed and the
continual denial of an Aboriginal History in this
country needs to be confessed.
To the Celebrations of the Federation the war of resistance has not
ceased and the Indigenous people of this country
continue to struggle in all aspects of life.
The Aboriginal Nations of this country continue to challenge the British
Crown and the Commonwealth of Australia’s usurped
sovereignty of this country, now called Australia.
The Aboriginal Nations of this Country would like to "relay" to the
pseudo ­ government appointed Aboriginal leaders that
they have no womandate/mandate to make decisions on behalf of Aborigine
Australia and in many cases not even their own
communities. These leaders should recognise them selves as agents of the
colonisers and that Indigenous Nations political
structure is egalatarian.
The Australian "National Interest" is still defined by the first Prime
Minister, Mr Edmund Barton when he quoted Professor
Pearson in 1901.
" The fear of Chinese immigration which the Australian democracy
cherishes… is in fact, the instinct of self ­ preservation,
quickened by experience … .We are guarding the last part of the world in
which the higher [sic] races can live and increase freely
for the higher civilisation [sic]….The day will come … when the European
observers will look around the globe girdled with a
continuous zone of the yellow and black races. It is idle to say that if
all this should come to pass our pride and place will not be
humiliated. We are struggling among ourselves for supremacy in a world
which we thought of as destined to belong to the Aryan
race: and to the Christian faith: to the letters and arts and charms
which we have inherited from the best of times.’ (Federal
Parliament Debate 7th August 1901."
Aboriginal Sovereignty to this country has never been
ceded, never will be and never can be.
Always was and Always will be
Aboriginal Land
Unity
Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, Australia.
Ray Swan & Alison Hoolihan : (02) 62950493
Marie Bennett: Mobile; 0418 224 046
FAX: (02) 62950493