DRAFT AGENDA - Sovereignty Workshop & Frontier Wars Memorial March - Canberra 22 - 26 April 2017

AGENDA

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Aboriginal Embassy Canberra - Camp at the Embassy (BYO Everything)

Sovereignty Workshop

Saturday 22 April 2017 - Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra

AGENDA - DAY 1

Day 1:Saturday 22 April 2017 - Location: The Meeting Tent
Circle Topic: Rebutting inclusion in the Constitution, that threatens our Sovereignty

TIME

PRESENTERS

DESCRIPTION

FACILITATORS

8:30 – 9:00

 


REGISTRATION


Christine Palmer, Kayteje:
Krystal Hurst, Worimi

9:00 – 9:10

 


Minute Silence &
Acknowledgement of Country

 

9:10 – 9:40


Bejam,
Dennis Walker - Nunukel


Ucadia - True Sovereign Law is the oral tradition of the tribes. Our struggle is not about Black & White, it's about good & evil.


David Peachey, Wiradjuri

9:40 – 10:40


Isobelle Anderson, Kurjin


Context of official complaint against Referendum Council's Dialogues in Cairns


David Peachey, Wiradjuri

10.40 –10:50

 


Q & A

 

10.50 –11:00

 


Morning tea break

 

11:00 –12:20


Lidia Thorpe
Krautungalung People of the Gunnai Nation


Treaties processes in Victoria after rejecting referendum proposals


Ruth Gilbert, Wiradjuri

12.20 –12.30

 


Q & A

 


12.30 –1:50

 


LUNCH BREAK

+ Frontier Storytelling

 

1:50 – 2:50


Serene Fernando, Gomeroi
Alice Haines, Gomeroi
Ruth Gilbert, Wiradjuri


Anti R & Vote NO:
The Referendum NO case:
Threat to First Nations/Tribal Sovereignty in Constitutional Recognition


Hamid Bin Saad, Nyikina

2:50 –3:00

 


Q&A

 

3:00 – 3:15

 


Afternoon tea break

 

3:15 – 5:00


OPEN FORUM CIRCLE


OPEN FORUM CIRCLE


Marbuk, Barkinji
Fred Russell, Wiradjuri

4:45 – 5:00

 


Q&A

 

5.30 – onwards

 


Dinner
– Bring a plate of food for sharing
@ABORIGINAL EMBASSY

 

6.30 – onwards


Music exchange / cultural exchange


Movies and Music


MC

 

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Sovereignty Workshop

Sunday 23 April 2017 - Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra

AGENDA - DAY 2

Day 2:Sunday 23 April 2017 - Location: The Meeting Tent
Circle Topic: Taking the Grassroots Sovereignty Movement Forward

TIME

PRESENTERS

DESCRIPTION

FACILITATOR

8.30 – 9:00


BANNER-MAKING


REGISTRATION


Krystal Hurst, Worimi, ++

9:00 – 9:45


Uncle Ray Peckham, Wiradjuri


Wisdoms from decades in the struggle


Rick Martin, Wiradjuri

 

9:45 –10:50


Christine Palmer, Kayteje
Raymond Campbell, Kayteje
Narelle Hutchings, Wiradjuri


Towards a Sovereignty School & healing:
Shut Youth Prisons
Dondale & Bush Mob
"The streets ain't gettin' my kid!"

 

10:50 –11:00

 


Q&A

 

11:00 –11:15

 


Morning tea break

 

11:15 –12:20


Dave Peachey, Wiradjuri;
Serene Fernando, Gomeroi;
Narissa of Narjon,
Lidia Thorpe, Krautungalung People of the Gunnai Nation
Alice Haines, Gomeroi
Ruth Gilbert, Wiradjuri;
Krystal Hurst, Worimi;
Sam Muir-Chalmers, Yanyula;
Mark Polina, Nyikina (tbc);
Nelson Polina, Nyikina (tbc);
Roxley Foley, Gumbayggyr;
Rick Martin, Wiradjuri;
Julie Russell, Brinja-Yuin;
all welcome


YOUNGER GENERATIONS CIRCLE
Workshops on ways forward
[Feel free to be a listener if you don't want to talk]


Marbuk, Barkinji
Christine Palmer, Kayteje
Fred Russell, Wiradjuri

12:20 –12:30

 


Q&A

 

12:30 – 1:50

 


LUNCH BREAK
+ Frontier Storytelling

 

1:50 – 3:00


As above -all welcome


YOUNGER GENERATIONS CIRCLE - continued
any issues to be clarified ?


Marbuk, Barkinji
Christine Palmer, Kayteje
Fred Russell, Wiradjuri

3:00 – 3:15

 


Afternoon tea break

 

3:15 – 5:00


As above …


YOUNGER GENERATIONS CIRCLE - continued
Strategies, ways forward, resolutions, actions


Marbuk, Barkinji
Christine Palmer, Kayteje
Fred Russell, Wiradjuri

5:30-onwards

 


Dinner - bring a plate of food for sharing

 

6:30 onwards


Music exchange/
cultural exchange


Movies and Music

 


 

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Sovereignty Workshop

Monday 24 April 2017 - Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra

AGENDA - DAY 3

Day 3:Monday 24 April 2017 - Location: The Meeting Tent
Circle Topic: All day workshop: Defining Sovereignty & how to make it work

TIME

PRESENTERS

DESCRIPTION

FACILITATORS

8:30 –9:00


BANNER-MAKING


REGISTRATION


Christine Palmer, Kayteje

9:00 –10:50


Ghillar, Michael Anderson – Euahlayi
+++


DEFINING SOVEREIGNTY,
Self-determination.
Importance of flags/totems & heraldry


Lidia Thorpe, Krautungalung
People of the Gunnai

10:50 –11:00

 


Q & A

 

11:00 –11:15

 


Morning tea break

 

11:15 –12:20


Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Euahlayi +++


OUR LAW IS THE LAW OF THE LAND:
Continental Common Law
v British Common Law


Hamid Bin Saad, Nyikina

12:20 –12:30

 


Q&A

 

12:30 –1:50

 


LUNCH BREAK
+ Frontier Storytelling

 

1:50 –2:50


Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Euahlayi +++


TREATIES & SELF-GOVERNANCE
International legal norms
Unilateral Declarations of Independence & UDIs ;


Serene Fernando, Gomeroi

2:50 –3:00

 


Q & A

 

3:00 –3:15

 


Afternoon tea break

 

3:15 – 5:00


Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Euahlayi +++


Know when we are winning:
Asserting Sovereignty & UDIs
& in the courts

 

5:30pm for 6pm

 


LOCATION: Top of Mt Ainslie
Side event: Anzac Peace Vigil,
Top of Mt Ainslie walking down to War Memorial & Anzac Parade

 

5:30 onwards

 


or Dinner @ Embassy
– bring a plate for sharing

 

6:00 onwards

 


Movies and Music

 

 

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March for Frontier Wars Massacres and Conflicts

Tuesday 25 April 2017 - Anzac Parade cnr Constitution Ave. Reid

AGENDA - DAY 4

Day 4:Tuesday 25 April 2017 - Location: Bottom end of Anzac Parade, Canberra
Circle Topic: Frontier Wars, Massacres, Conflicts

TIME

PRESENTERS

DESCRIPTION

FACILITATORS

9:30 – 10:00


Maureen Davis, Brinja-Yuin


Appin Massacre Memorial


Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Euahlayi

 

10:00 –10:30


Isobel Anderson, Kirjin


Frontier wars, Massacres, Conflict. The Australian Genocide

 

10:45


Bring banner in memory of the Peoples who died in defence of Homelands


FRONTIER WARS MARCH up Anzac Parade to WAR MEMORIAL. –
Keep calm if provoked by agent provocators/stirrers!!

 

1:00 – 2:00

 


LUNCH BREAK @ Aboriginal Embassy

 

2:00 – 3:00


Gathering of Minds


Open forum –

DEBRIEF and NEW IDEAS CIRCLE


Marbuk, Barkinji &Gomeroi;

3:00 – 3:15

 


Afternoon tea break

 

3:15 – 5:30


Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Euahlayi;
Marbuk, Barkinji&Gomeroi;
Maureen Davis, Brinja-Yuin;
Christine Palmer, Kayteje, and others


OPEN FORUM CIRCLE:
Future strategies for Aboriginal Embassy &
linking with other Embassies.
Meaning of Embassy in international law.


Dave Peachey, Wiradjuri

5:30 onwards

 


Dinner

– bring a plate of food for sharing

 

6:30 onwards


Music exchange / cultural exchange


Movies and Music


Aboriginal Embassy

 

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Sovereignty Workshop

Wednesday 26 April 2017 - Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra

AGENDA - DAY 5

Day 5: Wednesday 26 April 2017 - Location: The Meeting Tent
Circle Topic: Decolonising & Healing

TIME

PRESENTERS

DESCRIPTION

FACILITATORS

8:30-9:00

 


REGISTRATION


Christine Palmer, Kayteje:
Krystal Hurst, Worimi

9:00 –10:35


Ghillar, Michael Anderson – Euahlayi
Nation


PROCLAMATION of First Nations Sovereignty:
Understanding the legal argument of First Nations/Tribal Sovereignty
Establishing 'bone fides' [the real thing]
Taking out their colonial source of power
Key court cases


Ray Peckham, Wiradjuri

10:35–10:45

 


Q & A

 

10:45–11:00

 


Morning tea break

 

11:00–12:20


Ghillar, Michael Anderson – Euahlayi


REPAIRING & REBUILDING OUR NATIONS/TRIBES:
REPARATION & HEALING


Serene Fernando, Gomeroi

12:20–12:30

 


Q&A

 

12:30 –1:30

 


LUNCH BREAK

 

1:30 –2:20


Ghillar, Michael Anderson – Euahlayi


PUTTING OUR LAW ON TOP
CONTINUING SOVEREIGNTY & OLDEST CULTURE


Ruth Gilbert - Wiradjuri

2:20 –3:00


Gathering of minds


OPEN FORUM CIRCLE
Working together
What do we need? What's lacking?
Ways forward, drafting & adopting resolutions
Action plan


Marbuk, Barkinji
Ghillar, Michael Anderson – Euahlayi

3:00 – 3:15

 


Afternoon tea break

 

3:15 – 4:30


Gathering of Minds


OPEN FORUM CIRCLE:
OUTCOMES for NATIONAL GOVERNANCE
Adopting Resolutions
Statements/Communiques


Christine Palmer, Kayteje &

Serene Fernando, Gomeroi

4:30 to 5pm

 


Closing

 
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