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All aboriginal land in Australia really controlled by whites

UN SUBMISSION- ABORIGINAL PEOPLE BECOMING REFUGEES IN THEIR OWN LAND
by Michael Anderson, leader of the Euahlayi Nation of northwest NSW and southwest Queensland and elected spokesman of the 16 tribes in the Gumilaroi nation August 17, 2009

“…………This Rudd Labor Government is not at all honest in their dealings with Aboriginal Affairs especially when one considers that they have established a policy after being elected to resume Aboriginal title to land under a strategy that requires the Aboriginal people to sign forty to ninety year leases over to the Federal government in return they are to receive infrastructure development and housing. This would not be tolerated in any other section of the Australian community nor, however, in any other section of the civilized world. This policy is not restricted to the Northern Territory but is itself a national program……………………….

The current status of Aboriginal people is that we are refugees in a Country we once called our own. Past and present policies continue to deny our right to be within our homelands on our own terms.

The Australian Government refuses to accept that all policies, past and present, maintain this status amongst our Peoples. The invader state has legal and international obligations to rectify the situation of refugees. The policies of family resettlements of the 1970s in New South Wales and the current twenty hub-centres proposal in the Northern Territory have been purposefully designed to break up Peoples’ connections to their homelands, thereby exacerbating the cultural, economic and social problems associated with being refugees.

This initiative by the government to establish these hub-centres removes people from their cultural homelands. This in turn will disconnect the young ones from their heritage and in Aboriginal Australia ‘Country’ is the central feature that provides a person with identity, self-worth, family and community…………..

On the issue of Land Rights we need only to mention that any lands that are currently in our possession are worthless in terms of Western real estate values, if we are to talk about the economic world. All land that is ‘owned’ by Aboriginal people is classified is Aboriginal Land which, in economic terms, has no value. All Aboriginal ‘owned’ land is in some form or another ultimately controlled and owned by a white government minister, through the various clauses that are written into the Acts themselves. In other words, all government ministers, who deal with Aboriginal affairs, have powers of resumption at any time with and can be done without any form of compensation and without the consent of Aboriginal traditional stakeholders.

The Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) is failing to provide for Aboriginal people as per its purpose and function. ……………………..

If we are to follow the history of Australia’s dealings with international law on the question of human rights and Aboriginal rights and freedoms will we find a trail of deceit and deception.

Australia is a colonial country that has mastered the art of deceiving the eye. The words and actions of government appear on the surface to be honourable but scratch the surface and you will see institutional racism personified.

This is the case currently with regards to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

This government has paid much lip service while in reality defaces it through their domestic actions, eg the Northern Territory Intervention and the Native Title Act.

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September 7, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | aboriginal issues, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, uranium | aboriginal, antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, radioactive, uranium