NAC Briefing of Draft Considerations for Self-determination 1984

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N.A.C. Briefing of Draft Recommendations and ConsiderationsI hope this draft document prompts some further thinking about where we are being led and maybe we can begin to think for ourselves and prepare our own independent nations approach to a settlement that you and we want not what the assimilated are prepared to give away. The is will be all lost forever to our future generations. Is this the legacy this generation wants to leave for our future generations? ...
- Ghillar Michael Anderson

Don't be fooled! Voice to Parliament and State-based treaties miss the mark

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Mind the State Treaty TrapsBoth major political parties tow the colonial line regarding First Nations rights. Even though Labor promises to put the Voice to Parliament to referendum in their first term of office, if they win the election on Saturday, this misses the mark completely. What is the advantage to First Nations Peoples to have a Voice when the Federal parliament has no obligation whatsoever to take notice of any advice offered by consultation, let alone enforce the advice?

WHERE TO FROM HERE? Decolonisation & Sovereignty ... MEDIA FILES

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Where to from Here‘WHERE TO FROM HERE? Decolonisation and the Sovereign inherent right to self-determination’ insightful conference videos (long form) charting a path towards the Elimination of Racial Discrimination against First Nations Peoples. We are releasing the long form video record of the conference of ‘WHERE TO FROM HERE? Decolonisation and the Sovereign inherent right to self-determination’, which was held on the 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Embassy, 27 January 2022, at the Albert Hall, Canberra.

THE FIRST ASTRONOMERS: How Indigenous Elders read the stars - Book launch - published by Allen and Unwin, 2022

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Growing pains of self-determination

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The ghosts of the past in Black Power movement of the very late 1960s and 70s continue to pervade the politics of Aboriginal/First Nations Affairs and a lot of grassroots people are now asking: Whatever happened to all those good things that we at the grassroots felt emancipated by?
An example that is often given is: Whatever happened to all the housing companies we had? And all the homes and vacant town blocks that were owned by these housing companies?

The 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Embassy: the elephant in the room

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50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal EmbassyThe 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Embassy was an opportunity lost to unite our people in progressing a forward march to the total liberation of our people, freeing us from the tyranny of the British invaders and oppressors.

No. Instead many people took advantage of the situation to try and make themselves relevant and misled people into believing that they had a defined pathway to freeing ourselves from the tyranny of oppression.

The 14th anniversary of Mr Ward’s horrific prison van death in custody

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The prison van death of mr ward

Invasion Day 2022 marks the 14th anniversary of the arrest and horrific death in custody of Aboriginal elder, Mr Ward, just one of more than 500 Aboriginal deaths in custody since the culmination of the Royal Commission in 1991. This year he should have turned 60. In a poignant tribute to his influential life, EMMA PURDY chronicles the shocking failures of the Australian justice system in the events surrounding his death, many of which remain relevant today. Sovereign Union would like to honour his memory through this article.

Keith Windshuttle's attack on the Aboriginal Embassy

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Ghillar Michael Anderson responds to Keith Windschuttle
Windshuttle needs to remove his emotions
Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, provides an insight into how Mr Keith Windshuttle, Editor-in-Chief of the online Quadrant magazine dated 9 January 2022 professes to know what is in the minds and hearts of First Nations people and their supporters, in his article ‘The violent politics of Australia Day’.