Sovereign Union - First Nations Asserting Sovereignty

Ghillar Michael Anderson announces today that, after years of discussion and consultations with senior Law men and senior Law women, they have now founded the Wati Law Council in the Western Desert cultural block and, in the case of the Euahlayi Nation in the east of Australia, the Euahlayi Law Council. Discussions are continuing with other Nations’ ceremonially educated Law-holders. The processes and procedures that have been adopted are to formalise the ancient Customary Law procedures for the modern era. [node:read-more:link]

The story of Lieutenant James Cook and British Sovereignty over Australia has been overcooked. At no time on any of Cook's three voyages to the Pacific was he intending to go anywhere near New Holland. He did chart the east coast of New Holland in 1770, but that was not part of his Instructions. The whole story about Cook and his association with the claim of British Sovereignty over the lands now known as Australia is retrospective, rather than consistent with the events of the time. Cook's initial "mission" was to get to Tahiti to study the Transit of Venus, and to then look for the fabled Great Southern Land, Terra Australis. [node:read-more:link]

Colonial law is a law that cheats all our Peoples out of our ownership of all our lands, water and natural resources and ownership of all of our native flora and fauna, which are our families through our Totemic Law rules.
Native Title laws keep us outside in the drought without shade and we are burning up, just like our native bush. The 'two bob black trackers' control all negotiations and dictate what they say our people should get and agree to. [node:read-more:link]

These State and Territory Treaty processes are not focusing on the key issues that our Peoples have been marching for on the streets. Whether Australians like it or not there are two regimes operating today in Australia: The Law of the Land belonging to Sovereign First Nations and Peoples under our own Laws and customs and the imposed colonial system originating from Britain. As Nations and Peoples, we need to stand strong and firm in our commitment to get it right, to assert our sovereign rights. We owe it to our future generations. [node:read-more:link]

To assert our sovereignty effectively we need to watch out for the colonial trickery and traps. Whilst the occupying power of the Crown may say they recognise that First Nations' sovereignty has never been ceded the fact is, in some States like Victoria, the government has already totally assimilated the people through their Treaty Commission legislation, which specifies that a treaty is between the colony of Victoria and Aboriginal Victorians. So, with this the case, inherent First Nations sovereignty is being usurped by the colonial jurisdiction. [node:read-more:link]