Hidden agenda behind Closing the Gap, Treaty, Reconciliation, Recognise, Statement from the Heart and the Voice.

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9 August 2021

I ask our Peoples – Do you understand what are the hidden agendas behind all these terms - Closing the Gap, Treaty, Reconciliation, Recognise, Statement from the Heart and the Voice?

The terminologies that I have identified in the heading of this statement do not come from paranoia and conspiracy theories, but they come from the real world. In short, all of these colonial strategies are about one agenda only – Assimilation - thereby completing the theft of our Country on a continental scale.

Assimilation by definition is the imposition of a legal and administrative system on a foreign territory and its People, so that their minds become foreign to their own ancient existence. In our case, the military occupying power (now called the Commonwealth of Australia with a constitution that speaks about the federated colonies) is imposing of foreign laws, beliefs and customs upon us under the catchwords identified above. This is true colonialism. Through this belligerent occupation of our lands the colonial power is using various strategies to win over our patrimony by corrupt and deceitful activities.

The holding out of these strategies that are mentioned in the heading are coercive offers by the occupying authorities. It is the equivalent of Captain James Cook’s attempt to make offers of trinkets, axes, knives and beads, in exchange for something. If the People had responded by giving something in exchange, it could be argued that a contract had been effected, but this did not happen. It is recorded that the People left the beads and trinkets where they lay while Cook and his men stole spears and shields from their homes. Therefore, the rejection of Cook’s offers and the way the people left the encampment meant an unqualified NO - Not interested. Therefore, it can never be argued that there was any agreement for Cook to take possession of our Peoples’ countries in the name of King George III.

It is my argument that if there is no proper explanation of the intention to create mutually acceptable legal relations in a common language that is understood by all parties concerned, then the contract is void and the act of receiving an offer cannot be legitimate because of the lack of the Peoples’ understanding of the intention of the offer and exchange. The party making the offer must be very clear about its intention of what it expects the outcome to be. The receiving party must be fully informed of the ramifications and consequences of accepting that which is on offer. If this is not clear for the recipients’ understanding then it is not possible for them to give their full, free, prior and informed consent for that agreement.

It is my argument that if there is no proper explanation of the intent behind the exchange in a common language that is understood by all parties concerned, then the contract is void and the act of receiving an offer cannot be legitimate because of the lack of the Peoples’ understanding of the intention of the offer and exchange. The party making the offer must be very clear about its intention of what it expects is to be the outcome. The receiving party must be fully informed of the ramifications and consequences of accepting that which is on offer. If this is not clear for the recipients’ understanding then it is not possible for them to give their full free prior and informed consent for that action.

All of the identified topics named above in the heading are without proper explanation about what is intended by the offering party, nor is there an explanation of any beneficial outcomes for the targeted group; nor is there any conformance to the primary implied essential term of any contract that the parties will do everything to facilitate the contract’s enjoyment by both parties. I also refer to my previous article ‘Mind the Trap’ dated 19 April 2021, in which I explain the how the concept of ‘inference’ is used to manufacture alleged consent to be governed by a foreign power.

This raises the question as to whether the appointed Black troopers, including ‘Lieutenant’ Ken Wyatt, Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians, are fully aware of the intended consequences and ramifications around all of the offers that are currently on the table. If they do know of the full intent behind these offers, then they are all complicit in an act of treason against our First Nations Laws and customs, because the strategies that they, as the false Messiahs of leadership in Aboriginal Australia, are promoting are acts of outright genocide, over which the Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians has carriage.

So, let’s look at the international law of genocide, the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948. I’ll illustrate the five definitions of genocide:

(a) Killing members of the group:
 
If we examine this in the current Australian context, the governments are fully aware of police killings of Aboriginal people without prosecution and accountability. This is clear and evident from the 1991 report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Deaths in custody are known in international law as being to the same effect as government death squads. Since this Royal Commission, deaths in custody have increased. The international condemnation of Australia in this regard is based on the disproportionality of the incarceration of Aboriginal people throughout this country, including children as young as 10. These state-sanctioned killings are on top of the devastating ‘Frontier Wars’, which had the intent of clearing the land of the sovereign first possessors, under a scorched earth practice.
 

 
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group:
 
The serious bodily harm comes in various forms. From the outset of colonisation, historical documents clearly show that the colonisers brought with them smallpox and the people in the Sydney Basin region were subjected to germ warfare to wipe out the original inhabitants and first possessors of the lands of Botany Bay and Sydney Cove districts. We know this disease travelled much further than this.
 

 
Then there was leprosy that was introduced and spread through the Northern Territory, the Kimberley and the Pilbara region of Western Australia. For many years a wing for leprosy and other exotic diseases was conveniently located at the King Henry hospital at Malabar adjacent to La Perouse, Sydney.

Other bodily harm was inflicted on our people who were imprisoned in the guise of being ‘protected’, which is a textbook instance of torture, under the Torture Convention. Being confined to government and church mission stations, made the land barren of First Nations’ human life, so that the lands could be classified as wastelands, thus giving the Crown the alleged right to assume a fictitious and false claim to ‘unoccupied’ desert and uncultivated lands, which facilitated land theft. The measly rations that were given out caused much harm to healthy bodies. We must recall that part of the punishment on government missions was to withhold rations for disenchantment and/or dissent against the managers/commandants. In other parts of the world there were similar situations and a classic example is how the Chang Kai Check government had locked up all the food supplies in Shanghai warehouses, thereby starving the people and raising food prices. In Australia today, the food distribution in rural and remote communities has extremely inflated food costs and made them prohibitive to people who have a very limited income. The corporates blame the exorbitant costs on long-distance transportation.
 
The brutal imposition of a foreign religion on the oldest living culture and spirituality in the world has caused and continues to cause extreme mental harm in First Nations.

In a Vatican Apology to Oceania, the Catholic Church expressed ‘deep regret and asked forgiveness where her children have been or still are party to these wrongs. Aware of the shameful injustices done to indigenous peoples in Oceania, the Synod Fathers apologized unreservedly for the part played in these by members of the Church, especially where children were forcibly separated from their families.’

The churches are seen to be in bed with the government, which was once a no, no. There was always a plain and unambiguous agreement that church and government should be independent of each other. The return of ‘graces and favours’ should not be the order of the day. The discourse of Australian legislation in respect to First Nation Peoples has always been one of silently agreeing to the passing of atrocious laws that have perpetually kept Aborigines back as second-class citizens in the land of their inheritance. As C.D. Rowley stated in his book The Destruction of Aboriginal Society that the religious teachings were that Aboriginal people can expect Land Rights in Heaven.

The 2018 Royal Commission into child sexual abuse has uncovered a large chunk of the festering sore by compiling the irrefutable evidence of the horrific crimes inflicted on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children by the ‘men of the cloth’ and the way the hierarchy covered up the crimes. The accusations go to the pinnacles of the churches in Australia. Former Governor-General Hollingsworth had to step down from the priesthood and Archbishop Wilson reluctantly resigned in August 2018.

The role of nuns in child sexual abuse is yet to be exposed. When I was Director of the Deaths in Custody program in New South Wales in 1995-1996 I interviewed Mr. Y in the Goulburn prison, who was serving a lengthy sentence for paedophilia. I asked “Why do you do it?” His answer was words to the effect of, “When the nuns admit what they did to me was wrong, then I might reconsider if I am guilty.”

Records show that during colonial times when imprisoning First Nations people, the colonial administrators agreed that neck-chains were the preferred method of restraining the prisoners, whose only crime, I might add, was being there as first possessors and resisting the theft of their lands.

When imprisoning First Nations people during colonial times, records show that the colonial administrators agreed that neck-chains were the preferred method of restraining the prisoners, whose only crime, I might add, was being there as first possessors and resisting the theft of their lands.
 
In respect of mental harm to the group, we know that our people suffered deeply from the modern psychological term called solastalgia – in short, the feeling of homelessness when you are still at home. This caused so much mental harm that the suffering was very difficult to bear by many of the Elders and families, who fretted for their Country and despaired at the destructive actions of the colonialists, from then to now. This impact is much more prevalent today than it ever was.
 

 
If we look at the recent Close the Gap statement this is an aspect that they are trying to address, but it is unlikely to work effectively because it is a top down approach and yet another imposition of government policy without the free, prior and informed consent of the targeted group.
 
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part:
 
The policy of assimilation is just that. The original aim was that First Nations people would attain the same standard of living and be influenced by the same beliefs and customs of all Australians. This policy was aimed directly at erasing our languages and our ancient Laws and customs from our memory and to stop the practices of our ancient customs, in order to become the true ‘Indigenous Australians’, leaving our culture, language, art and ritual statutes to be merely exhibition pieces belonging to museums and galleries with our dance and art to become tourist attractions.
 
One of our struggles is against governments’ legislation to assume ownership of our languages. The legislation should merely be establishing a right for us to maintain and continue our languages. It is not for a Minister foreign to our culture and an agent of the foreign parliamentary law-making system to have ownership and control through the occupying power’s laws.
 
The introduction of Native Title may well have been well-intended but in reality it has caused great mental harm to our Peoples, and we must remember the English legal maxim that “a man is taken to have intended the natural consequences of his actions”. This is represented by the angst and anxiety amongst our people, because the so-called experts, in the guise of anthropologists and the foreign occupier’s trained lawyers, are common law centrics who only look at the black letter law, as opposed to going beyond the Native Title Act to secure the true sovereign rights of First Nations as sovereign first possessors. There is also solid evidence that the lawyers are a power group who routinely make deals with the crown for their own benefit. Henry VIII did this when restoring his feudal revenues. They stay strictly within the current black letter law of the occupying State, thereby restricting our claims to unoccupied and vacant Crown lands. That is to say – where the white man is not using the lands for any purpose – yet!
 
The injustices inherent in the Native Title processes are based on the High Court’s struggle in Mabo (No.2) to attempt to legalise the colonial land tenure by relying on the feudal fiction that the Crown holds the land and makes grants of land title to stolen lands. What follows is only a thieves’ title.

So, if we are to close the gap of injustice then Native Title, as legislated for, must be reconsidered and amended. Our people are suffering because they are constantly arguing that wrong people are speaking for their Country and Native Title determinations permit wrong people to have control after the determinations are made.
 
The mental harm being suffered by the real ancient owners of Country is NOT being measured and the conflict within communities and regions is being shielded by the powers that be, because they do not want the Australian public, or the world, to understand the gravity of the damage and mental harm that has been done, and continues to be done, to our people.
 
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group:
 
There are two shocking elements that must be acknowledged because Aboriginal people throughout Australia constantly refer to these concerning policies and suggestions. But before I do that let me just revisit the 1937 Aboriginal Welfare Conference hosted by the Commonwealth government for all Aboriginal ‘Protectors’ in the colonial states. One of the key agenda items was the need to establish a policy around banning and or preventing the ‘half-caste’ men or women from marrying back into their own kind. The suggested reasoning behind this was their concern of not knowing the type of person who would be born of this relationship, because their fear was that the influence of the white mind could cause possible revolt in the future.
 
There is evidence of sterilisation on government mission stations and church-controlled missions. In fact, in recent times, it was openly espoused that Aboriginal women be subjected to the injection of Depo Provera to prevent pregnancy.
 
Then there was the now infamous statement by Lang Hancock, the WA mining magnate, who openly suggested to government that Aboriginal women should be sterilised. He even promoted putting sterilising chemicals into the water that Aboriginal people drank. Clearly, Mr Hancock was looking well into the future for mining in WA, that is, miners would not have to deal with such things as Aboriginal Land Rights and negotiating royalties.
 
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group:
 
We have had the acknowledgement and apology by former PM Kevin Rudd for the stolen generations, but he emphasised that there would be no compensation. Shamefully, in New South Wales we had an Aboriginal person, now Linda Burney MP Shadow Minister for Families and Social Services and Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians, who was herself a member of the stolen generation, permit large numbers of Aboriginal children to be removed from their families when she was the Minister for Community Services in the New South Wales government, 2008 - 2011.
 
It should be noted that more children NOW are being removed from families than at any time in Australian history.
 

 
I return now to the heading: Closing the Gap, Treaty, Reconciliation, Recognise, Statement from the Heart and the Voice. May I just simply say to all First Nations that the hidden agenda behind each of these topics is to deceitfully obtain your consent to being engaged in these processes. Your participation, goodwill and engagement are being obtained under false pretences without you truly understanding the underlying agenda. Your apparent willingness to participate can infer you are consenting to something, but you know nothing about the terms of the intended outcome.

When our people realise that we have been duded and tricked it will be too late because they will say you participated willingly in these things - you should have known and you should have asked the real questions about what all this is really leading to. [Just like with the Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) when the agents of the coloniser ask you to sign so as to validate their illegal land title, that is in the past, now and in the future. Without knowing it you have given your land away for nothing.]

The Closing the Gap funding and program is about addressing the disparities between the living conditions and life expectancies, all of which are human rights available to all. There is nothing special about this.

If we are to succeed in improving our station in life then we must demand that, if we are to Close the Gap between the haves and the have-nots, then our First Nations must have the right to be self-determining at the grassroots level. As a human right, we must have the right for every First Nation to define its nationality, religion, way of life, and be truly self-determining. The $1billion that is being boasted by Minister Wyatt must go directly to the First Nations, not to government bureaucrats and consultants.

If we are to address this Gap that they speak of then they must focus on changing all legislation in this Country to recognise our rights under international law to be self-determining in all aspects with the key subject being First Nations’ Sovereignty continues to exist. Until that is addressed we will continue to have conflict at all levels. No amount of trickery and deceit will erase from the minds of our Peoples our right to freedom from the oppressive control of the occupying power.

Be careful!

 
Be careful of the Close the Gap initiative because if it is not properly managed and executed as the grassroots people wish it to be, then it could lead to exacerbating the genocide that I speak of. Intentionally or unintentionally, genocide will be the outcome if we are not careful.

Assimilation is using genocide to deceive people into enslavement.

Contact: Ghillar Michael Anderson
Convenor of the Sovereign Union,
Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic
Contact Details here