@thoughtsofawho @auscandoc @BlahBlah @mackayim2022

#Aboriginal consultative bodies are defunded because MPs find they don't work as well as had been hoped initially.

It's not not a reason to put the next version in the constitution but is an indication that we need to try again until we get it right.

Entrevista (con subtítulos en español) a los directores de HOMECOMING, documental sobre la cultura Sámi.
Interview (Spanish&English subs) with the directors of HOMECOMING, a documentary about the Sámi culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOOke2CGq9c
#TIFF23 #aboriginal #nordic #Documentary

In Western #Australia #Marri #trees (known as #GnaamaBoorna in the local #Aboriginal #Menang language) are pruned over decades, even centuries to take on a bowl or well shape and collect & store #water.

(Gnaama = hole for water, & Boorna = tree or timber.)

Living up to four hundred years, they are often found in ceremonial areas, along #SongLines, or high on hills where water was hard to access.

#Biodiversity #Conservation #Fire #Horticulture #Pruning #Tradition

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-07/how-traditional-owners-used-marri-trees-to-gather-water-wa/102799998

“#Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander people are tired of dealing with the #misinformation, lies, hatred and #racism the #referendum debate is fuelling in society.

Many have questioned Australia’s ability to engage in a debate over the #VoiceToParliament without descending into racist stereotypes and contempt for #Indigenous people.” https://mastodon.social/@theconversationau/111020762214519826

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-03/peter-dutton-pledges-second-referendum-if-voice-fails/102808598
“Liberals for #Yes spokesperson Sean Gordon says Mr Dutton does not have a mandate to hold a second #referendum, and is ignoring the wishes of #Aboriginal people.”

And a key point: offering a referendum on an (yet another) imposed question and not the question that most affected have asked to be asked.

Surely the 1969 referendum gave the government the power to legislate for #aboriginal Australians.

Couldn't they just establish the #VoiceToParliament if the referendum fails?

#Auspol

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/september/george-megalogenis/demographics-and-voice#mtr

If the, 'Yes', team wants to win the #VoiceToParliament referendum they should carry photos of these two dinosaurs wherever they go.

The best reason to vote, 'Yes', is to avoid being on the same side of an argument as them.

#Auspol #Aboriginal

#UN agency removes document that states #Tasmanian #Aboriginal #people are extinct

#lutruwita #australia #indigenous #racism #taspol #tasgov #politas #classwar #humanrights #antiracism #antifascism #tasmania

https://youtu.be/UnJB3Dc0UTU?feature=shared

Aboriginal Wandjina art projected on Sydney opera house in orange, white and brown colours. The photo is taken at night the opera house is illuminated.

#Aboriginal
#Wandjina

Queensland’s new laws will see children as young as 10, who are held in remand and haven’t been convicted of any crime, locked up and held indefinitely in adult watch houses. These egregious laws will go down as one of the biggest human rights breaches by an Australian government in recent history.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/25/queenslands-watch-house-laws-are-a-grotesque-affront-to-decency-and-an-immediate-danger-to-children?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise

There's 70% support for the Voice to Parliament from Greens & 58% support from ALP voters respectively.

#auspol #Aboriginal #VoiceToParliament
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2023/aug/14/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-poll-results-polling-latest-opinion-polls-referendum-tracker-newspoll-essential-yougov-news-by-state-australia

😭 😡

An arborist has confirmed that a birthing tree in western Victoria sacred to the Djab Wurrung people has been poisoned.
Key points:

The Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation says the "despicable" act is a "clear attack" on the community

The corporation is offering $10,000 for information that leads to prosecution over the matter

The Western Highway duplication project is on hold while a cultural management plan is prepared

The arborist determined the poison was applied via three holes cut into the tree, which had its trunk was spray-painted with the words "build the road", between Thursday, August 10 and Friday, August 11.

#Trees #DjabWurrung #Aboriginal #Australia #Victoria

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102758914

“He said, ‘I thought I was dying in the cell last night’. He said ‘I couldn’t move’,”

She said the arrest was so violent it could have broken a bone when the young man was thrown to the ground. She claimed an ambulance was not called despite his seizures.

In May a NSW police officer was found guilty of assaulting a 16-year-old Indigenous boy in inner Sydney in 2020, when he threw the boy to the ground using a similar leg sweep manoeuvre.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/18/aboriginal-18-year-old-with-disability-thrown-to-ground-during-nsw-police-arrest-while-having-seizure?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #SovereigntyNeverCeded

Lidia Thorpe has called for the voice referendum to be called off, arguing it is an “easy way to fake progress” for First Nations people without making any changes.

The independent senator told the National Press Club on Wednesday a no victory would reveal Australia as a racist country, despite herself advocating for people to vote no.

Thorpe attacked the Albanese government’s push to enshrine an Indigenous voice in the constitution, describing it as a “powerless advisory body”, “window dressing for constitutional recognition” and an “insult” to First Nations people’s intelligence.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/16/lidia-thorpe-calls-for-referendum-called-off-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-no-campaign?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#AusPol #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #TreatyBeforeVoice #VoiceToParliament

#Aboriginal teens pause for a portrait in the moonlight out on their ancestral homelands near Cape Stewart in the Northern Territory, #Australia, 2013 -

by Amy Toensing, American

#Photography

‘We were the frontline’: Australia’s only all-Indigenous battalion remembered as last Torres Strait digger dies
They were underpaid and trained with broom handles, but that didn’t stop the Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion fighting for their country

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/12/we-were-the-frontline-australias-only-all-indigenous-battalion-remembered-as-last-torres-strait-digger-dies

#Racism #Aboriginal

Will World Cup increase indigneous football participation?

https://www.dw.com/en/will-world-cup-increase-indigneous-football-participation/a-66493694?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#indigenous #Women'sWorldCup #football #soccer #Aboriginal

#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness

As if settler colonizers weren't already detached from any responsibility to build meaningful relationships to Indigenous Peoples whose lands they're occupying, they now have a number they can text to find out whose lands they're on to do a #LandAcknowledgement. Fuck your digitized and analogue allyship performances. #LandBack #AntiColonial #AccomplicesNotAllies

(from the Indigenous Action Facebook page)

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #TreatyBeforeVoice #VoiceToParliament

From the BPU's (Black Peoples' Union) Facebook page:

Join us this Wednesday night, 6:30pm aest for a public class followed by a discussion.

This class will be on:

Sovereignty - what it actually means from both a colonial and a First Nations perspective, how it originated, and what challenges it faces today.

Treaty - what does Treaty mean, the many different forms Treaty can take, how they would be established, and the pro's and con's to each.

This is a free class and discussion open to members of the public to attend and have ask questions.
Zoom link can be found on our story and in the linktree:
https://linktr.ee/blackpeoplesunion?fbclid=IwAR10ylRNBJEpUhIQL-1vlDdSlPdZqx6y7grix1AtcrBoIz_5OYJgcjXqj1E

#VoiceToParliament #AusPol #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #racism #Treaty #TreatyBeforeVoice