Sovereign Union - First Nations Asserting Sovereignty

After the Native Title Act was introduced, WA introduced 'complementary' State legislation, which was a template for corruption to rob the Peoples of their lands, waters and natural resources. The First Nations Peoples of WA became stuck with Native Title facilitating bodies, which quickly manifested a very rotten strategy, to wind back the clock so that the government could take control of all the lands from the Peoples and unjustly deprive the Peoples of all that was set aside for them and their future descendants. [node:read-more:link]

Join the dots between the current Recognition campaign; Constitutional inclusion; Native Title Act's Preamble; Australia's obligations to the UN and the CERD; Special Measures; the Treaty processes and the insistence that First Nations Peoples are called 'Indigenous Australians' ... then there is the Victorian treaty legislation that introduces itself by stating that the people the treaty is for is Victorian Aborigines. If we are to reach the point where proper treaties are negotiated then we must look at some of the serious ramification that will flow. [node:read-more:link]

The recent Yule River Walkout in the Pilbara demonstrates that owners of Country are working out how to challenge the way their Country is being seized and desecrated by deceit and fraud. West Australia mainstream media did not report the Yule River Walkout on 25 July 2019, but a week later local Ngaarda Media shared some of the contentious Yule River meeting on Facebook in an effort to provide some balanced reporting. Local knowledge informs us that over 9000 cultural sites belonging to three tribal groups in the Pilbara have been destroyed through the Native Title processes. [node:read-more:link]

Our greatest fear is not whether we negotiate a Treaty, but the forcing through of the Recognition campaign for inclusion in the colonial Constitution. Ghillar, Michael Anderson, provides an historical insight into the NAIDOC 2019 theme ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth’, which reveals that each time First Nations Sovereignty rises up too powerfully it is suppressed in favour of the ‘trip wire to assimilation’. The ‘Voice’, of the NAC was shafted in 1984; the NAC ‘Treaty’ framework was dismantled and ‘Truth’ has barely been heard yet. [node:read-more:link]

An invitation to the 'Lest We Forget the Frontier Conflicts March' 9.30 am Thursday 25 April 2019, starts from west end of Anzac Parade, cnr Constitution Ave, Reid, Canberra.

The conflict between the British invaders and First Nations Peoples continue to this very day and the hidden history unveils an orgy of bloodshed without restraint or restriction. First Nations Peoples defended their lands and continue to do so at great loss. [node:read-more:link]