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We wait for the results of the full investigation to understand what really took place and how the ceremonial fire became a conflagration. We need to acknowledge Albert Hartnett’s eye witness account that what was a smoking ceremony appeared to be inflamed by two Police men who came from the inside of Old Parliament House with what he thought was pepperspray, or a spray to douse the fire ...
This 50th Anniversary must now unify and direct the fire in our bellies. We can only achieve positive change if we set our sights on clear objectives for the future. In this regard, there will be a presentation on Thursday 27 January in the Albert Hall, 100 Commonwealth Ave, Yarralumla, next to the Hyatt Hotel, where it is proposed to set a direction towards decolonisation and self-determination and re-establishing our Nations’ power and authority under our Laws and customs
Ghillar, Michael Anderson, the last surviving member of the founding four of the Aboriginal Embassy in 1972 articulates his personal position on where we are now. On 27 January. He and some experts in their field of law and society will talk about sovereignty and land rights. “We all have a common enemy," he says. "I recognise and acknowledge all those who have contributed over the years to keep the Aboriginal Embassy out there in front for all to see. They must all be applauded for their commitments."
The governments are totally confused about where and how they want us to fit within their autocratically ruled Australian society. The colonial education system is designed with the purpose of training our minds to think like them, that is, assimilation by design and purpose. The policy-making and programming in government circles is the absolute frustration for our people to get anywhere near our grassroots' aspirations and ambitions, because of the prevention of progress which stops us from succeeding and fulfilling these ambitions.
. 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 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.
An invitation is extended to all First Nations Peoples across Australia to bring their flags, aspirations, ideas and strategies for achieving self-determination to Canberra, 26th-28th January 2022. This Anniversary is the greatest opportunity for the grassroots voices to be truly heard as one. So, this 50th year of that silent confrontation established by four men, now creates an opportunity for Australia to truly hear the voices of the silent majority of First Nations Peoples of this Country, and we invite all true supporters to be with us on this momentous occasion.
The so-called state 'treaty process' of today threatens the inherent sovereign rights of First Nations. State agreements are not 'treaties' between Nations, they are private agreements.
Proper sovereign treaties have to involve negotiating rights between sovereign powers and negotiations commence on a full agreement that sovereignty was never ceded by First Nations in Australia, who continue to hold proprietary rights to all lands and waters in this country, as was confirmed in the Mabo case.
The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation (ILSC) are attempting to dispossess the Euahlayi Nation's Ghurrie clan of their land on the NSW/QLD border which was purchased for them by the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) back in 1998 as redress for dispossession as an admission of the wrongdoings perpetrated against them.
"When we marched the streets for Land Rights in the 1970s, it was impossible to conceive that, if and when we won Land Rights, these things would occur,' Ghillar, Michael Anderson, the last surviving member of the founding four of the Aboriginal Embassy said.
Many of our People are now engaging in and considering Treaties with Australian State and Territory governments. Initial stages for a Treaty with the Commonwealth government and the National Aboriginal Conference was agreed to by the Fraser Liberal Coalition government in 1979, after Kevin Gilbert and others set up the National Aboriginal Government on Capital Hill, Canberra (before the new Parliament House was constructed), and called for a Sovereign Treaty and Bill of Rights.
An insight into the proposed 'Indigenous voice co-design process' based on assimilation, which is in opposition to First Nations voices on the assertion of sovereignty.
First Nations true Voice is the Sovereign Voice of the owners of this ancient land who hold the oldest continuing culture on earth. The current ‘Indigenous voice co-design process’ is a cynical assimilationist affront to our right to self-determination and self-governance.