WALKOUT STATEMENT Aboriginal Embassy Statement from the Sacred Fire

The Referendum Council, their agents and their Conservative Black elite do not speak for the delegates that walked out of their National Constitutional Convention, not the many other First Nations Representatives who walked out of the National Constitutional Convention in opposition to their insidious and unlawful agenda. Nor do they speak for the many thousands of Wiradjuri people and hundreds of thousands of other Sovereign First Nations Peoples.
 
We speak for ourselves in our struggle for self-determination and acknowledgement of our Sovereignty. The delegates from the Dubbo, Melbourne and Canberra Dialogues seemed to represent the group who did not fall for the lies at Ayers Rock Resort near Uluru, who stood tall and walked away as a means of demonstrating opposition to this scandalous, deceitful process.
 
The Conservative white ‘experts’, led by Mr Noel Pearson, told us that the time is now right for a push to be ‘recognised’ in the Australian Constitution by the Liberal Conservative mainstream party, with bipartisan support. According to them, NOW is the only time we have to decide this issue of national significance.
 
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Sell Out On Treaty - The Conservative Push
 
The Government created Conservative Black Political elite have sold us out in their agreement with the Referendum’s Council’s pre-determined agenda. This agenda is to steal the Sovereignty over the continent now called Australia using laws imported by the British Crown.

Where does this compromise of principles lead us? If you listen to the likes of the Government’s paid Referendum Council through Noel Pearson, it will not diminish our argument of never ceding our Sovereignty to the British Crown, when this is exactly what they are seeking to do through their wilful deceit.

The Referendum Council, their agents and their Conservative Black elite do not speak for the delegates that walked out of their National Constitutional Convention, not the many other First Nations Representatives who walked out of the National Constitutional Convention in opposition to their insidious and unlawful agenda. Nor do they speak for the many thousands of Wiradjuri people and hundreds of thousands of other Sovereign First Nations Peoples.

We speak for ourselves in our struggle for self-determination and acknowledgement of our Sovereignty. The delegates from the Dubbo, Melbourne and Canberra Dialogues seemed to represent the group who did not fall for the lies at Ayers Rock Resort near Uluru, who stood tall and walked away as a means of demonstrating opposition to this scandalous, deceitful process.

The Conservative white ‘experts’, led by Mr Noel Pearson, told us that the time is now right for a push to be ‘recognised’ in the Australian Constitution by the Liberal Conservative mainstream party, with bipartisan support. According to them, NOW is the only time we have to decide this issue of national significance.

Their instrument was the Referendum Council, who by their wilful blindness are attempting to sow the seeds for our surrender in our battle to define who we are and what we stand for.

We do not, have not and will not surrender our position as the rightful Sovereign Owners of these, our Lands and Territories.

In all of the Referendum Council’s Dialogues we were placed under duress to force and suspend our Sovereign rights and to believe that only their white conservative constitutional lawyers will deliver us any sort of justice within the national framework of Australia, with their flawed insular model.

The critical issue not on the table, and not explained by the Referendum Council, is that this agreement making does not and will not address the question of ultimate root Sovereignty, which the High Court conveniently left unanswered by their legal reasoning in the Mabo decision. Any attempts by Aboriginal Australia to resolve this issue through political and legal means within the Australian System has always and always will be doomed to failure.

The agreement that Noel Pearson had already made prior to the National Constitutional Convention consists of this false assertion that the illegal sovereignty transported from England back in 1788 is not to be disturbed in any way, shape or form by the Constitutional reform process. Point 10 of the Guiding Principles accompanying the ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart' states that the process: ‘Does not interfere with current and future legal arrangements’. So in one sentence, the compromise is already spelt out quite clearly.

The question of the Sovereignty of pre-existing and continuing First Nations of this island continent now known as Australia is not addressed, nor is the question addressed in 2017, other than the consideration of biased non-Aboriginal ‘experts’, heavily influenced by self-interest in maintaining the skeletal framework of a system designed by a colonial power to usurp and protect their historical and ongoing crimes against Sovereign First Nations.

How much was Noel Pearson and his 'white expert lawyers' paid to dismiss and reach their conflicting expert opinion on First Nations Sovereignty? This critical point had already been pre-determined by people with a conflict of interest in the whole process, in wanting to build a one-way road, the Noel Pearson Road Map that goes nowhere, based on previous failed government experiments. It is there for everyone to see and make their minds up about.

Referendum Council Trail of Tears - Why the URGENT Need for the Charade?

 
The sheer arrogance of the Referendum Council, its servants and players, both black and white, firstly sought to deliberately misinform those delegates of the true nature of the supposed Uluru discussion, and then silenced them when they arrived at Ayers Rock Resort near Uluru. Delegates were expecting open discussions, with a fundamental and vital freedom of speech.

That is the rub. There was no debate, no open dialogue about the one option on the table. One preferred option is not a discussion nor a debate, it is more about conflicting self-interest overruling the interest of a whole race of people and decided in secret back room meetings well in advance of the Uluru dialogue, to the extent that the Referendum Council had already printed off what it saw as the only viable option on the table for discussion.

The Noel Pearson model, endorsed by Pat Anderson, Megan Davies and others, had been bedded down for months, if not years beforehand. The deceit perpetrated on the delegates was shameful. The stacked dialogue was supported by the majority of self-appointed conservative black elites and Representative Bodies, who were servicing their own self-interest to continue to control and gorge themselves of the Government black money stream for years to come.

On the question of ‘delegates’ and the Referendum Council’s paid facilitators, we First Nations Peoples demand clarity about who had voting rights at the National Constitutional Convention. We demand under Freedom of Information that the names of all delegates including all Referendum Council facilitators and convenors (government employees) are released for public scrutiny. We demand to know who was selected at each of the 12 ‘Dialogues’ held around the country and at the one day Canberra ‘Information Day’, from which delegates were chosen, and to know what nations they are from.

We also demand full and transparent information as to which organisations they are employed by, and how many voting participants of the National Constitutional Convention had received monies, and how much, from the Referendum Council to support and vote for the Referendum Council’s agenda.

We demand transparency too about the fact that Delegates and Referendum Council staff had all expenses paid to attend the Dialogues and Convention, including how much was paid to each individual and their employees, agents, facilitators and convenors. We demand complete transparency to allow for full public scrutiny of the Referendum Council’s processes during their operational period.

Why were the Referendum Council’s paid employees given full participation including voting rights at the Referendum Council’s National Constitutional Convention, which is a direct and blatant conflict of interest? Who had voting rights – delegates or facilitators? This was the first question put to the floor on the first day of the National Constitutional Convention.

It was conveniently left unanswered by all in the room except those who repeatedly tried to raise the issue. The facilitators who ran the Dialogues and the Referendum Council’s National Constitutional Convention also endorsed the deceit at Ayers Rock Resort near Uluru, by having voting rights and not once declaring their extraordinary conflict of interest.

The Government’s timeline drove the urgency at the National Convention. The Referendum Council and the Government’s appointed panel of experts have had years to draft their position. The elected delegates from each of the Dialogues had only three days to consider the matter - without even sighting any form of proposed Constitutional amendments at either the Regional Dialogues or the National Constitutional Convention. They were expected to blindly follow the conservative black elite’s and government’s agenda without any time to analyse, digest or seek independent expert advice on matters of such importance, let alone discuss and debate these matters between delegates or consult with or gain a mandate from their own Nations and Peoples.

Compromise for the White Man’s Lies

 
The agreement to take an action that only speaks the truth of the invader’s history, which is steeped in the power of superior force and control over all that is truth by perpetuating their false history, is not addressed in any way shape or form, so the battles of the past are condemned to be the battles of the future. We cannot agree to the white man’s version of history. We cannot agree to expunge the massacres, to forgive and forget the murders and massacres of innocent First Nations land owners, and let the country’s invader be rewarded for its criminal past - and to then project that past into the future.

We call for a Truth and Justice Commission

 
Only one pathway was open for discussion at the Referendum Council’s National Constitutional Convention. Alternative pathways were silenced. The exit route is already in place on the only road on the map for the rich and powerful murderers, rapist, paedophiles, and convicts, to keep the proceeds of their crimes. We believe at the end of the day that those who perpetrated and continue to inflict the terra nullius holocaust on Sovereign First Nations are being given the opportunity to absolve themselves of all crimes they committed against all Sovereign First Nations Peoples in the recent past, present and well into the future.

They are denying the past, denying the future; something Mr Pearson had already given much thought to - how to let white Australia off the hook for their crimes of genocide and continuing gross violations of Human Rights.

The Referendum Council’s wrong way legal advice is perfecting the trickery to coerce First Nations Peoples to be assimilated into the colonial constitution, and in this way, there can no longer be Sovereign Treaty/ies under the international law of the Vienna Convention of the Law of Treaties.

No repatriations, no compensation, no atrocities committed, no terra nullius holocaust, no Sovereignty, – this is Mr Pearson’s Road Map to Nowhere. A one way road to more of the same through mainstreaming, guided by misleading signs to a brighter future lined with empty promises. It’s a road to hell we will not be allowed to come back from, while guaranteeing the black money stream for the self-serving black conservative elite.

Dialogue about real Sovereign Treaties was never on the table, and will never be on any future table, under the Noel Pearson, Pat Anderson, Megan Davies, Mark Leibler (and others) one-lane road to hell.

No Other Option was on the Table – Let’s Discuss Our Own Anyway

 
We Respect the Rights of Mother Earth as fundamentally integral to the wellbeing of humanity.

Ecuador and Brazil’s Constitutions recognise the rights of the Indigenous peoples of that country, eg: “… the original peoples whose rights precede the State of Brazil.” This means, in simple language, that their First Peoples rights override the rights of the State.

WE DEMAND AN END TO THE GENOCIDE FIRST. The harm from this current government, which has also come all previous Australian governments ruling in right of the British Crown, must STOP before any meaningful negotiations can proceed.

We also demand open meetings, all conflicts of interest declared; an Agenda with Reparations, Compensation, Royalties, a Black Parliament freely chosen by First Nations people only, First Nations Law as the only applicable Law, Truth and Justice, and an Acceptance of our pre-existing and continuing First Nations Sovereignty.