Australian History from an Aboriginal perspective (Robbie Thorpe PART 2 of 5)
Part 2: Robbie Thorpe, of the Gunai people in S/E Victoria, giving a talk to Law students at Deakin University (Geelong, Australia) on 15 May 2009. **IN 5 Parts**
Subjects include:
1. The Legal questions of GENOCIDE and JURISDICTION. Do Australian courts have the jurisdiction to charge Aborigines in Australia? Under what jurisdiction? What is the real LAW of the LAND?
2. Climate change and Environmental Sustainability. Indigenous culture managed to sustain their way of life for 60,000+ years; European colonizers have almost destroyed the Australian ecosystem after barely 200 years of settlement. Is the ecocide fundamentally connected to the genocide and to European colonization and its industrial revolution?
3. Thoughts on the Native Title process, of which Robbie has recently started collaborating in preparing the Gunai/Kurnai claim for his mob. STAY TUNED to TheJuiceMedia for updates on this claim!
4. An overview of Aboriginal Activism and HISTORY key people tied to the topics of Sovereignty, Treaty, Terra Nullius the Aboriginal Embassy.
Barbara Shaw, from Mt Nancy town camp near Alice Springs, talks in Melbourne on 27th August 2009 about the Northern territory Intervention, which began in 2007 under the Howard Government and is being extended under the Rudd Labour Government.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin announced in July '09 that Town Camps in the NT would be paid $100m to sign 40 year leases making the residents tenants under the Territory Government. Should they refuse, Macklin threatened, the Government will compulsorily acquire the town camps under the special powers provided by the Emergency Response Legislation, which was pushed through Parliament in 2007.
In response, Barbara Shaw has lodged two injuctions - or 'stays of execution' - against Macklin, stating that she did not inform the tenants that their right were going to be extinguished. The Federal Court will now proceed to a full hearing on Monday August 31st.
More to come in the next few days...
Fore more information, check out these articles:
Crikey: 'Alice camps injunction is down to Macklin'
http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/07/alice-camps-injunction-is-down-to-macklin/
Crikey: 'Macklin botches Alice Springs town camp compulsory acquisition'
http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/27/macklin-botches-alice-springs-town-camp-compulsory-acquisition/
Also, very importantly, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples, Prof James Anaya, has recently visited the Northern Territory on a 11 day trip (17-28 August 2009). He also met with Barbara Shaw, who introduced him to one of the town camps near Alice. His report has condemned the Northern Territory Intervention as 'Racist' and he has urged Canberra to reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act asap. Anaya will present the Report to the UN at the next Human Rights Council meeting. Take a read of the Report here:
http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/313713727C084992C125761F00443D60?opendocument
Both the Government and the Opposition have responded in the most embarrassing manner possible, by choosing to completely disregard the Report of this distinguished Rapporteur:
Tony Abbott: 'Abbott says calls from UN expert Anaya "nonsense"'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25992824-29277,00.html
And Warren Mundine:
'Warren Mundine ~versus~ James Anaya'
http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=6610
And of course, Rupert Murdoch's opinion in The Australian: 'He came, he saw and missed the point'
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25995837-16741,00.html
We're still waiting' - Robbie Thorpe (Gunai/Kurnai people of S/E Australia) addresses the interfaith community at the Parliament of World Religions (9 December 2009, Melbourne).
'Australia is a war crime scene, an unresolved one ... and saying 'Sorry' ain't gonna cut it for me':
For more info: http://www.treatyrepublic.net/
Hello to everyone out there who's been wondering what's happened to Rap News and when the next video will be coming. We made this special video to update you all on the status of Season 4, to reward you all for your patience, and to provide some relief to all those yearning for the Juice.
This is for our dedicated audience out there, featuring some never before seen behind-the-scenes views of JRN HQ, and the two of us in our first ever appearance on the show. (Kind of)
We hope you enjoy this chaotic little update video as you wait for Season 4 to commence - very soon!
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Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline before you leave the White House.
UPDATE: Looks like Obama remembered after all! 5th Dec 2016: "Dakota Access pipeline: US denies key permit, a win for Standing Rock protesters" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/04/dakota-access-pipeline-permit-denied-standing-rock?CMP=share_btn_tw
"Obama's Legacy Rests on Whether He Stops Dakota Access Pipeline" - Dave Archambault II, Chair of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe: http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/17/standing_rock_sioux_tribe_chair_we
"Obama and Native nations have worked hard over eight years to create a special and healthy relationship during his tenure. Not a perfect relationship, but definitely special. Yet, if he fails to act and kill this Dakota Access Pipeline — a pipeline that directly threatens Native treaty rights and also directly threatens Native children’s health and well-being — all of that work may be for naught." - Gyasi Ross (Blackfeet), Indian Country Today Media Network http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/09/24/obamas-legacy-line-dakota-access-pipeline-could-tarnish-his-place-history-165892
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Part 1: Robbie Thorpe, of the Gunai people in S/E Victoria, giving a talk to Law students at Deakin University (Geelong, Australia) on 15 May 2009. **IN 5 Parts**
Visit Robbie's website: http://www.treatyrepublic.net
Subjects include:
1. The Legal questions of GENOCIDE and JURISDICTION. Do Australian courts have the jurisdiction to charge Aborigines in Australia? Under what jurisdiction? What is the real LAW of the LAND?
2. Climate change and Environmental Sustainability. Indigenous culture managed to sustain their way of life for 60,000+ years; European colonizers have almost destroyed the Australian ecosystem after barely 200 years of settlement. Is the ecocide fundamentally connected to the genocide and to European colonization and its industrial revolution?
3. Thoughts on the Native Title process, of which Robbie has recently started collaborating in preparing the Gunai/Kurnai claim for his mob. STAY TUNED to TheJuiceMedia for updates on this claim!
4. An overview of Aboriginal Activism and HISTORY key people tied to the topics of Sovereignty, Treaty, Terra Nullius the Aboriginal Embassy.
The time has come to turn our focus onto the very medium which allows us to connect: The Internet. As we know it today, it has only been around for a short time: it's still an adolescent; still changing and growing. But even as we speak, powerful forces and interests are vying to influence and shape it’s nature as it reaches full maturity. And since humanity’s destiny and that of the Internet are intimately connected, it would be wise to be ask: how is the Internet doing? If the Internet could speak to us as a human today, what kind of person would it be? And most importantly, what kind of a person will it become in the future? Log in with Robert Foster as he poses these very questions to some of the most influential and powerful figures who are today shaping the Internet’s future. Featuring an world-exclusive, world-first appearance from the Internet itself. Only on Juice Rap News.
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We caught up with Uncle Bob in May'09 while he was in Melbourne and took the opportunity to chat with him and ask him 3 questions:
1. Have you seen any improvements since the Australian Government's Apology (to the Stolen Generations)?
2. What do yo do to maintain your culture; and how can people become part of indigenous culture?
3. In light of the current crises we face - environmental, financial etc - how do you see us progressing into the future?
Filmed by Sheryl and Felipe of PluginTV with TheJuiceMedia. The video is split into two parts for YouTube.
About Uncle Bob:
[from the Kanyini Website: http://www.kanyini.com/subject.html]:
Bob Randall was born in 1934 at Middleton Pond on Tempe Station in the Central Desert region of the Northern Territory. He is a member of the Yankunytjatjara people and one of the listed traditional owners of Uluru. His mother, Tanguawa worked as a housemaid at Angus Downs cattle station for Bob's father, station owner, Bill Liddle. At a young age, Bob was taken away from his mother under government policy, whom he never saw again.
Bob: 'I was institutionalised because I didn't wear clothes or live in a house. In that natural way of living, there was no need for me to have anything other than what I had.'
Bob was sent to the Bungalow Telegraph Station in Alice Springs, which was the receiving home for Indigenous children from Central Australia. Bob: 'They gave me clothes to wear and put me in a house - I didn't like it.'
As a young child, Bob was moved north to the Croker Island Reservation in Arnhem Land. He remained at the reservation until he was 20, working at various jobs, including as a carpenter, stockman and crocodile hunter. While still a teenager, he married Amy, a member of the Amadjera Tribe who had also been stolen from her family.
In the mid-1960s, the family moved to Adelaide, where Bob completed a welfare residential worker's course. Bob: 'A lot of our kids were being locked up in jail at this stage and I thought I would like to help them.'
In 1970, Bob helped establish the Adelaide Community College for Aboriginal people and lectured at the college on Aboriginal cultures. He began to gain recognition for his songwriting in the early 1970s, when his song, 'My Brown Skin Baby [They Took Him Away]' caught the attention of an ABC journalist, David Roberts. This led to the ground-breaking ABC documentary of the same name, which won the Bronze Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and focused national and international attention on the issue of separation. Bob also appeared in the documentary films Buried Country (produced by Film Australia) and Secret Country by John Pilger.
His work with Aboriginal communities has taken many forms. He served as the Director of the Northern Australia Legal Aid Service and established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander centres at the Australian National University, University of Canberra and University of Wollongong. He continues to present his cultural awareness programs at schools and other institutions and in workplaces. His life-long efforts were recognised in 1999 when he was named 'Indigenous Person of the Year' at the 1999 National Aboriginal and Islander Day of Celebration (NAIDOC) awards.
In 2004 Bob was inducted in the NT music hall of fame for having written such classic songs as Brown Skin Baby and Red Sun, Black Moon about the Coniston massacre. Bob is also the author of two books: his autobiography "Songman" and a children's book 'Tracker Tjginji" which was part of the 2004 Sydney Writer's Festival.
Check out the trailer for the film Kanyini - well worth a watch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvoAE27I9gg
"The concept of sustainability has always been central to Indigenous cultures' - Larissa Behrendt (of the Eualeyai/Kamillaroi people) talks about the lessons derived from her Indigenous culture relating to climate-change, environment/sustainability, Aboriginal totems and customs, wisdom and the principles of connectedness. 'I'd like to see the Indigenous cultures of Australia become the central cultures of this country, that all Australian feel that Indigenous cultures are part of our heritage.' In order to achieve this, Larissa advocates the need to protect Indigenous culture within a culture of human-rights.
Peter Doherty - Nobel Prize Laureate - mentions the importance of hunter-gatherer societies.
About Larissa: Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology, Sydney, Larissa is also a practising Barrister who has previously worked with the United Nations. She is currently Chair of National Indigenous Television, Director of Bangarra Dance Company and is on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Larissa is also a judicial member of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal and the Serious Offenders Review Council and an Acting Commissioner on the Land and Environment Court, Fellow for the Australian Social Sciences Academy, a Foundation Fellow for the Australian Academy of Law and a member of the ARC College of Experts. She is published on property law, Indigenous rights, dispute resolution and Aboriginal women's issues and is a regular columnist for the National Indigenous Times. Larissa is also an author; 'Home' is her first novel, and 'Legacy' is her latest work (2009).
*originally uploaded 25 August 2013* --- Rap News season finale: Episode 20 - A Game Of Polls. A messenger raven has arrived in the Juice Media studio bearing tidings from the land of Australios: Elections are Coming. The perpetually warring factions and severely inbred families from across the Australian political sphere are squaring up in a more than usually bloody campaign. It's Right versus slightly more Right in the election to end all elections for a few years. Join Robert Foster as he meets the bloodthirsty players in this violent saga. Who will slay whom? Who will prevail and claim the Irony Throne in Canberra? Who is that mysterious platinum-haired challenger in exile overseas? All these questions and more will be ignored in this celebratory 20th episode of Rap News.
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Julian Assange's vocals are sung by Chris Doheny; recorded by Jonathan Dreyfus and Craig Harnath @ Hothouse Audio St. Kilda.
Guest appearances by: Sean Bedlam as Kevin Rudd http://www.youtube.com/user/seanbedlam
Ellen Burbidge as Julia Gillard
Julian Assange as Julian Assange (really)
Voices for Kevin and Tony performed by Ming Lang of http://www.superawesomeparty.com
Voice for Julia performed by Lucy Cahill
Make-up courtesy of Rosie Dunlop
Images and artwork by Photoshop ninja Zoe Tame: http://www.visualtonic.com.au
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Our Ecuadorian Embassy film crew: Ibrahim Serra-Mohammed, Juan Luis Passarelli, Jose Luis Passarelli and Stella; thanks to Sarah Harrison for tactical assistance Vaarunika Dharmapala for kind hospitality in the UK. Our friends Ben Erwin and Nick W. for technical assistance and advice Jillian, Julie, Isabelle and Sally for brainstorming conversations about misogyny :)
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