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DRAFT AGENDA - Sovereignty Workshop & Frontier Wars Memorial March - Canberra 22 - 26 April 2017

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Aboriginal Embassy Canberra - Camp at the Embassy (BYO Everything)

TIME	PRESENTERS	DESCRIPTION	FACILITATORS
Sovereignty Workshop Saturday 22 April 2017 - Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra
AGENDA - DAY 1
Day 1:Saturday 22 April 2017 - Location: The Meeting Tent Circle Topic: Rebutting inclusion in the Constitution, that threatens our Sovereignty
8:30 – 9:00		REGISTRATION	Christine Palmer, Kayteje: Krystal Hurst, Worimi
9:00 – 9:10		Minute Silence & Acknowledgement of Country
9:10 – 9:40	Bejam, Dennis Walker - Nunukel	Ucadia - True Sovereign Law is the oral tradition of the tribes. Our struggle is not about Black & White, it's about good & evil.	David Peachey, Wiradjuri
9:40 – 10:40	Isobelle Anderson, Kurjin	Context of official complaint against Referendum Council's Dialogues in Cairns	David Peachey, Wiradjuri
10.40 –10:50		Q & A
10.50 –11:00		Morning tea break
11:00 –12:20	Lidia Thorpe Krautungalung People of the Gunnai Nation	Treaties processes in Victoria after rejecting referendum proposals	Ruth Gilbert, Wiradjuri
12.20 –12.30		Q & A
12.30 –1:50		LUNCH BREAK + Frontier Storytelling
1:50 – 2:50	Serene Fernando, Gomeroi Alice Haines, Gomeroi Ruth Gilbert, Wiradjuri	Anti R & Vote NO: The Referendum NO case: Threat to First Nations/Tribal Sovereignty in Constitutional Recognition	Hamid Bin Saad, Nyikina
2:50 –3:00		Q&A
3:00 – 3:15		Afternoon tea break
3:15 – 5:00	OPEN FORUM CIRCLE	OPEN FORUM CIRCLE	Marbuk, Barkinji Fred Russell, Wiradjuri
4:45 – 5:00		Q&A
5.30 – onwards		Dinner – Bring a plate of food for sharing @ABORIGINAL EMBASSY
6.30 – onwards	Music exchange / cultural exchange	Movies and Music	MC

TIME	PRESENTERS	DESCRIPTION	FACILITATOR
Sovereignty Workshop Sunday 23 April 2017 - Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra
AGENDA - DAY 2
Day 2:Sunday 23 April 2017 - Location: The Meeting Tent Circle Topic: Taking the Grassroots Sovereignty Movement Forward
8.30 – 9:00	BANNER-MAKING	REGISTRATION	Krystal Hurst, Worimi, ++
9:00 – 9:45	Uncle Ray Peckham, Wiradjuri	Wisdoms from decades in the struggle	Rick Martin, Wiradjuri
9:45 –10:50	Christine Palmer, Kayteje Raymond Campbell, Kayteje Narelle Hutchings, Wiradjuri	Towards a Sovereignty School & healing: Shut Youth Prisons Dondale & Bush Mob "The streets ain't gettin' my kid!"
10:50 –11:00		Q&A
11:00 –11:15		Morning tea break
11:15 –12:20	Dave Peachey, Wiradjuri; Serene Fernando, Gomeroi; Narissa of Narjon, Lidia Thorpe, Krautungalung People of the Gunnai Nation Alice Haines, Gomeroi Ruth Gilbert, Wiradjuri; Krystal Hurst, Worimi; Sam Muir-Chalmers, Yanyula; Mark Polina, Nyikina (tbc); Nelson Polina, Nyikina (tbc); Roxley Foley, Gumbayggyr; Rick Martin, Wiradjuri; Julie Russell, Brinja-Yuin; all welcome	YOUNGER GENERATIONS CIRCLE Workshops on ways forward [Feel free to be a listener if you don't want to talk]	Marbuk, Barkinji Christine Palmer, Kayteje Fred Russell, Wiradjuri
12:20 –12:30		Q&A
12:30 – 1:50		LUNCH BREAK + Frontier Storytelling
1:50 – 3:00	As above -all welcome	YOUNGER GENERATIONS CIRCLE - continued any issues to be clarified ?	Marbuk, Barkinji Christine Palmer, Kayteje Fred Russell, Wiradjuri
3:00 – 3:15		Afternoon tea break
3:15 – 5:00	As above …	YOUNGER GENERATIONS CIRCLE - continued Strategies, ways forward, resolutions, actions	Marbuk, Barkinji Christine Palmer, Kayteje Fred Russell, Wiradjuri
5:30-onwards		Dinner - bring a plate of food for sharing
6:30 onwards	Music exchange/ cultural exchange	Movies and Music

TIME	PRESENTERS	DESCRIPTION	FACILITATORS
Sovereignty Workshop Monday 24 April 2017 - Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra
AGENDA - DAY 3
Day 3:Monday 24 April 2017 - Location: The Meeting Tent Circle Topic: All day workshop: Defining Sovereignty & how to make it work
8:30 –9:00	BANNER-MAKING	REGISTRATION	Christine Palmer, Kayteje
9:00 –10:50	Ghillar, Michael Anderson – Euahlayi +++	DEFINING SOVEREIGNTY, Self-determination. Importance of flags/totems & heraldry	Lidia Thorpe, Krautungalung People of the Gunnai
10:50 –11:00		Q & A
11:00 –11:15		Morning tea break
11:15 –12:20	Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Euahlayi +++	OUR LAW IS THE LAW OF THE LAND: Continental Common Law v British Common Law	Hamid Bin Saad, Nyikina
12:20 –12:30		Q&A
12:30 –1:50		LUNCH BREAK + Frontier Storytelling
1:50 –2:50	Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Euahlayi +++	TREATIES & SELF-GOVERNANCE International legal norms Unilateral Declarations of Independence & UDIs ;	Serene Fernando, Gomeroi
2:50 –3:00		Q & A
3:00 –3:15		Afternoon tea break
3:15 – 5:00	Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Euahlayi +++	Know when we are winning: Asserting Sovereignty & UDIs & in the courts
5:30pm for 6pm		LOCATION: Top of Mt Ainslie Side event: Anzac Peace Vigil, Top of Mt Ainslie walking down to War Memorial & Anzac Parade
5:30 onwards		or Dinner @ Embassy – bring a plate for sharing
6:00 onwards		Movies and Music

TIME	PRESENTERS	DESCRIPTION	FACILITATORS
March for Frontier Wars Massacres and Conflicts Tuesday 25 April 2017 - Anzac Parade cnr Constitution Ave. Reid
AGENDA - DAY 4
Day 4:Tuesday 25 April 2017 - Location: Bottom end of Anzac Parade, Canberra Circle Topic: Frontier Wars, Massacres, Conflicts
9:30 – 10:00	Maureen Davis, Brinja-Yuin	Appin Massacre Memorial	Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Euahlayi
10:00 –10:30	Isobel Anderson, Kirjin	Frontier wars, Massacres, Conflict. The Australian Genocide
10:45	Bring banner in memory of the Peoples who died in defence of Homelands	FRONTIER WARS MARCH up Anzac Parade to WAR MEMORIAL. – Keep calm if provoked by agent provocators/stirrers!!
1:00 – 2:00		LUNCH BREAK @ Aboriginal Embassy
2:00 – 3:00	Gathering of Minds	Open forum – DEBRIEF and NEW IDEAS CIRCLE	Marbuk, Barkinji &Gomeroi;
3:00 – 3:15		Afternoon tea break
3:15 – 5:30	Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Euahlayi; Marbuk, Barkinji&Gomeroi; Maureen Davis, Brinja-Yuin; Christine Palmer, Kayteje, and others	OPEN FORUM CIRCLE: Future strategies for Aboriginal Embassy & linking with other Embassies. Meaning of Embassy in international law.	Dave Peachey, Wiradjuri
5:30 onwards		Dinner – bring a plate of food for sharing
6:30 onwards	Music exchange / cultural exchange	Movies and Music	Aboriginal Embassy

TIME	PRESENTERS	DESCRIPTION	FACILITATORS
Sovereignty Workshop Wednesday 26 April 2017 - Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra
AGENDA - DAY 5
Day 5: Wednesday 26 April 2017 - Location: The Meeting Tent Circle Topic: Decolonising & Healing
8:30-9:00		REGISTRATION	Christine Palmer, Kayteje: Krystal Hurst, Worimi
9:00 –10:35	Ghillar, Michael Anderson – Euahlayi Nation	PROCLAMATION of First Nations Sovereignty: Understanding the legal argument of First Nations/Tribal Sovereignty Establishing 'bone fides' [the real thing] Taking out their colonial source of power Key court cases	Ray Peckham, Wiradjuri
10:35–10:45		Q & A
10:45–11:00		Morning tea break
11:00–12:20	Ghillar, Michael Anderson – Euahlayi	REPAIRING & REBUILDING OUR NATIONS/TRIBES: REPARATION & HEALING	Serene Fernando, Gomeroi
12:20–12:30		Q&A
12:30 –1:30		LUNCH BREAK
1:30 –2:20	Ghillar, Michael Anderson – Euahlayi	PUTTING OUR LAW ON TOP CONTINUING SOVEREIGNTY & OLDEST CULTURE	Ruth Gilbert - Wiradjuri
2:20 –3:00	Gathering of minds	OPEN FORUM CIRCLE Working together What do we need? What's lacking? Ways forward, drafting & adopting resolutions Action plan	Marbuk, Barkinji Ghillar, Michael Anderson – Euahlayi
3:00 – 3:15		Afternoon tea break
3:15 – 4:30	Gathering of Minds	OPEN FORUM CIRCLE: OUTCOMES for NATIONAL GOVERNANCE Adopting Resolutions Statements/Communiques	Christine Palmer, Kayteje & Serene Fernando, Gomeroi
4:30 to 5pm		Closing

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