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Wikileaks Party strong advocates for Aboriginal rights

Mr Assange said that the WikiLeaks Party stands alongside all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in their struggle and right to self-determination. The party has an eleven member National Council, with one of its national councillors Gamilaroy man Luke Pearson. Mr Pearson, a teacher and the creator of the highly respected social media project @IndigenousX, is unfolding, alongside others, policy positions and calls for justice for Aboriginal peoples. Mr Pearson is well known for his passion for Aboriginal education as part of a true Australian society and the common good.

“[The Northern Territory Intervention]  one of the saddest, if not the saddest episodes of Australian history of the past ten years. A comic-book abuse of the role of the Australian military. A terrible violation of the right of Aboriginal Australia to determine its own destiny.”

Mr Assange said that the Intervention was “…aided and abetted by the credulous mainstream media’s demonization of Aboriginals as sexual deviants.”

Julian Assange on what the WikiLeaks Party will mean to Aboriginal peoples, Wikileaks Party   August 10, 2013 by Gerry Georgatos, lead WikiLeaks Party Senate candidate for Western Australia First published in The Stringer, August 10 2013

There is a new political party on the horizon – the WikiLeaks Party. Founded by Julian Assange the fledgling party is bidding for Canberra through the Senate. They have seven Senate candidates including Julian Assange.

Mr Assange was interviewed this week by The Stringer, while holed up in London’s Ecuadorean Embassy in his seeking of Asylum to protect him from the fate that Private Bradley Manning faces in the United States.

The WikiLeaks Party is polling strongly and if the polls were to reflect accurately on election day, September 7, the party would find it has three and maybe four Australian Senators.

Mr Assange said that the WikiLeaks Party stands alongside all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in their struggle and right to self-determination. The party has an eleven member National Council, with one of its national councillors Gamilaroy man Luke Pearson. Mr Pearson, a teacher and the creator of the highly respected social media project @IndigenousX, is unfolding, alongside others, policy positions and calls for justice for Aboriginal peoples. Mr Pearson is well known for his passion for Aboriginal education as part of a true Australian society and the common good.

Mr Assange said to The Stringer that as a result of his vast travels around our world he has realised that Australia’s Aboriginal peoples are the world’s most disenfranchised first nations peoples. He described the Northern Territory Intervention as one of the saddest low points in contemporary Australian history and the military’s role in it as “comic book abuse.” An abuse and violation of Aboriginal rights and identity.

The Stringer asked Mr Assange the following questions:………….

What do you think of the way and manner the Government marched the ‘Intervention’ into the Northern Territory? And of how it was enabled?

“(It was) one of the saddest, if not the saddest episodes of Australian history of the past ten years. A comic-book abuse of the role of the Australian military. A terrible violation of the right of Aboriginal Australia to determine its own destiny.”

Mr Assange said that the Intervention was “…aided and abetted by the credulous mainstream media’s demonization of Aboriginals as sexual deviants.”

“The Intervention by the Australian military and police in Aboriginal Australia not only was a diversion of their role and an abuse of the mechanisms of government for a purely political purpose, but it also undermined the traditional authority structure that all healthy communities must have. How can Aboriginal peoples exercise legitimate power or authority and set community standards when it is completely apparent that they have no practical physical authority within their community?”………..

The Aboriginal population has been so decimated, and its communities and linguistic structures so torn apart over the last 200 years, that it finds it difficult to form an effective lobby to defend its rights,” said Mr Assange………

Why isn’t the Australian Senate addressing these issues?

“It seems to be a failure of imagination. We know there is still plenty of racism against Aboriginal Australia. Big business is involved as well. Big mining companies wanting to be able to control Aboriginal land whenever they want. The big agro-cartels and other high-acreage farmers wanting to farm Aboriginal land if they want, and these lobbies strongly influence the Coalition and the Australian Labor Party.”…………

What will the WikiLeaks Party do for Aboriginal peoples?

“The pursuit of self-determination for the Aboriginal peoples of Australia is a component not merely of the party’s policy, but its constitution. Australia as a State is seeing its people’s rights to self-determination being compromised more broadly as a result of the corruption of the US alliance and the behaviour of transnational corporations on Australian soil. If we are not careful, all Australian citizens will find themselves in the same position as Aboriginal Australia. We must all unite together to stop this.”….. http://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/julian-assange-on-what-the-wikileaks-party-will-mean-to-aboriginal-peoples/

August 13, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | election 2013