First Nations Peoples in Australia are being crushed by governments

 Media Release 'We are being crushed' 7 July 2014 pdf

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Michael Anderson 7 July 2014

Pangarte Rosalie Kunoth-Monks and Ghillar Michael Anderson, head spokespersons for the Sovereign Union had a meeting in Sydney and both agree that our Peoples have reached a point where they feel totally overwhelmed by the tyranny of the Australian government and its state counterparts.

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Northern Territory Intervention
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If we look at the Commonwealth laws in relation to Aboriginal Peoples, the Federal government has created spin, a pretty picture which is only an illusion in respect to our rights. My Mother and Pangarte Rosalie Kunoth-Monks both agree that what we are witnessing now is worse than when they were children growing up under the oppressive laws of that era.

Australians generally have never been subjected to the oppressive legal system that we have been subjected to since the coming of the whiteman. The forced removal of children to de-aboriginalise them; forced into Christian homes and schools to learn about white culture, white beliefs, white values and white customs; endured child slavery where the states were the masters under state and territory legislation; imprisoned without the right of freedom and association; where laws were made for the police to relocate Aborigines and return them to their State of origin, should they attempt to flee the oppressive rules of that State; garnisheed family earnings to pay for children who were forcibly removed from their siblings to pay for their upkeep and welfare whilst in custody; fed flour, sugar and tea as a staple diet; prevented Aboriginal people from burying their dead according to their Law and custom; prevented ceremonial teaching according to our spirituality and religion; destroyed our open temples and sacred places of ceremony; and they called us barbarous, uncivilised savages.

In the debate leading up to the referendum of 1967 in the Federal Parliament PM Robert Menzies advised that deleting the words 'Aboriginal race' from the Constitution meant that the Commonwealth government does not have powers to pass laws for Aborigines in the States. He then reminded them that the Federal Parliament could only use the Race Power to make laws for the Aborigines. He admitted that this took Aboriginal people outside their (colonial) legal system, which was able to be contested by Aboriginal people [see below - Hansard 1 April 1965].

When you read current Commonwealth legislation you will see what Menzies predicted is playing out in the current definitions and interpretations at the commencement of the Acts. Commonwealth Acts relating to Aboriginal people thereafter have as a statement that the Purpose of the Act is for the Aboriginal Race. The Commonwealth parliament cannot make specific laws for Aborigines other than by using the Race Power.

Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) delegation meeting with Prime Minister Menzies in September 1963. 4 years before the Referendum. Left to right: Kath Walker (Ooodgeroo Noonuccle); Ted Penney; Gordon Bryant, MP; Elia Ware; Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister; Unknown, Joe McGinness, President of FCAATSI, shaking hands with the Prime Minister; Pastor Doug Nicholls (Canberra Times - AIATSIS

The laws that Commonwealth diplomats promote to the international community are dressed up with words like for 'redress for dispossession'; for 'economic advancement' of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and 'cultural protection'. When you scratch the surface and look deeply inside there lies the devil-in-the-detail, where the administrative operations of these laws place the ownership into the hands of a white Minister of the Crown. Aborigines own nothing. Just like the Aboriginal Protection Act in NSW 1909, where the details of the Act provided clothing and blankets for winter and summer but they are on loan only and the Minister of the Crown was always the owner. To dispose of them without the authority of the delegated person eg commandant of the mission, our people could be prosecuted for disposing of Crown property.

Nothing has changed. Our people are now being bludgeoned into submission through the imposed tyrannical laws of the Australian State and our people have no redress and/or protection from these evil-doers.

White South Africans who migrated to Australia must be asking themselves: How in the world did we fail? But now, having used their British citizenship, come to this continent, which truly is the last bastion of white supremacy, and help rule Blacks with an iron fist.

On the ground here at home we have a military intervention in the Northern Territory, where the retired senior member of the military forces has the ability to do what he wishes with Aboriginal lands without ever consulting the true owners, nor gaining free, prior and informed consent; controlling their income under the false and deceitful charge; criminalising Aboriginality and that's not just in the Northern Territory.

"Our people are absolutely devastated by the continuing oppressive rules applied to our people. We are being crushed." Pangarte Rosalie Kunoth-Monks stated.

The laws in the States, which are being changed with the approval of the Commonwealth, are now winding back the gains made in Mabo and the white courts of Australia are shielding the rights of the whites. There appears to be no justice. We certainly do not stand equal before the law when the courts in Australia protect white law, irrespective of whether it breaches international law, as if to say: What we do in Australia is our business. Yet they will join forces and go to war with their big bother America and their mummy England to fight and kill others over the right to be inclusive and the democratic process, forcing them to obey the rule of international law and to desist from violating human rights.

With Australia a temporary member of the UN Security Council it is surprising that Australia can get away with what it is doing. Clearly the UN means little to so many Australians, who participate in spin merely to paint a pretty picture of themselves for the benefit of the international community.

In last Thursday's (3 July 2014) Queensland Supreme Court decision in The Rates Dispute Ngurampaa v Balonne Shire Council the Judge Phillipides agreed with the opposition barrister that we cannot contest Australia's sovereignty and if Euahlayi are asserting sovereignty we should not be in their court, to which the judge agreed. This means our territorial integrity must also be recognised and cannot be challenged in their courts. In essence we are sovereign, we behave sovereign and govern within our own land, then what we do under our Law on our lands as a self governing Nation of Peoples can no longer be challenged by or within the Commonwealth and State jurisdictions.

The people promoting Recognise campaign for a referendum on constitutional recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples should surely feel insulted by PM Tony Abbott's statement later the same day -when he resurrected the whole concept of terra nullius in his economic speech to Australian-Melbourne Institute [http://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/this-is-how-unsettled-australia-w....

While we push to have sovereignty accepted, the Australian governments are paying to make new Black trackers in the guise of those running the "Recognise" campaign for constitutional recognition. These people think they are doing something nice and good but they do not understand the legal implications of what they are co-operating with. Our total demise as a race of people with a proud history and culture and the oldest people on earth will be the legacy that will be left by these new Black trackers who are promoting our demise. Good blackfellas paid by the whiteman do not help our Peoples.

We call upon all those persons to resign their positions in Recognise campaign for constitutional recognition in protest for what is happening on the ground with our people. We are not Australians. We belong to our own pre-existing and continuing sovereign Nations. To be assimilated into the illegally occupying power's British Constitution spells our demise.

The question is how members and supporters of the Recognise campaign justify supporting a racist constitution from Britain. How can they try and reconcile differences while being part of a racist and fascist regime that is ripping our people apart and wilfully destroying us and everything we stand for. How can the big R change the laws that send our people to prison and thereby decriminalise Aboriginality? How can recognition in the Constitution ensure our full entitlements of our inherent rights and protect our culture and gives us compensation from mineral resource extraction, etc?

We have survived an undeclared war and are now experiencing it over again minus the guns but through the legislative process and the promoting our demise under the banner of freedom of speech. They would never get away with these actions in the USA or Canada, but then many of our people are not that politically aware. Our mob has a great tendency to not bite the hand that feeds them such is the extent of the assault and demise of any dignity that we may have.

How can you promote the whiteman's wish while the parliaments create laws that criminalises Aboriginality. If you don't believe me, consult the recent statistics on imprisonment rates; children removed form families to adult prisons and the deaths by suicide of our youth and the self-destructive practices being committed by our young people against their own person in total frustration and inner anger. Our people need help to release us from the oppressive laws and subjugation and need it fast.

We need a reparation recovery framework to fix the trauma of the genocidal past that continues to permeate throughout our communities in order to re-emerge as the pre-existing and continuing sovereign Nations and Peoples that we are. .

Reacquaint yourself with the reality of life at grassroots.

Background document:

In the Australian parliamentary debates on the proposed amendment to the two sections of the constitution, Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies expressed concern about the possible legal outcomes when he said at 533 and 534 Hansard No. 13, Thursday, 1 April 1965 TWENTY-FIFTH PARLIAMENT FIRST SESSION-THIRD PERIOD:

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