Antinuclear

Call for political action on dispossession of Aboriginal land

The core of the latter legal application will focus on the absolute dispossession of Aboriginal lands that has caused us to become internally displaced Peoples and refugees………this country was and always will be Aboriginal land………

Call for dramatic return to proactive political action at Aboriginal summit, Indymedia Australia, By Michael Anderson and Ellie Gilbert, Canberra, 25 April 2011, Anzac Day — The Aboriginal New Way Sovereignty Summit here over Easter was informed that given the state of Aboriginal Affairs in this country today it is now time to make a dramatic return to proactive political action.

Within the coming months legal submissions will be completed for two challenges. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will be asked for an Advisory Opinion on the status of the Aboriginal Sovereignty.

The second legal challenge will be in the European Court of Human Rights where an application will be made for compensation and reparation from the British in respect to the colonisation, dispossession, usurpation of our natural wealth and resources.

The core of the latter legal application will focus on the absolute dispossession of Aboriginal lands that has caused us to become internally displaced Peoples and refugees.

The New Way Sovereignty Summit was also reminded of the ongoing effects of government policies that are causing mental harm to the group and conditions of life that are destroying our Aboriginal communities and individuals.

Each of these matters contribute to genocide under the international Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

The Summit concluded that a declaration of cession be finalised and forwarded to the Governor-General and prime Minister of Australia with respect to the land which the Aboriginal Tent Embassy currently occupies opposite the old parliament house…….we must engage ourselves and commit ourselves to our identity as Aboriginal people and let everybody know that we are Aboriginal and that this country was and always will be Aboriginal land………

Contact Michael Anderson 0427 292 492…..http://indymedia.org.au/2011/04/26/call-for-dramatic-return-to-proactive-political-action-at-aboriginal-summit

April 27, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | aboriginal issues, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL