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The Tent Embassy remains until a Treaty is sealed

Posted On Saturday, 18 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Indigenous Australia Tags: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, AUS, Binnah Pownall, Canberra, Denis Walker, Indigenous Sovereignty, Jerry Prus-Butwilowicz, Julia Gillard, Land rights, Michael McMurtrie, Paul Coe, Porkbarrell Cafe, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott

Binnah Pownall presents the most comprehensive summary yet seen of the Australia Day ‘Tent Embassy’ conflagration — along with the reasons why the Embassy won't be moving on any time soon.

Understanding Indigenous sovereignty

Posted On Thursday, 09 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian identity, Indigenous Australia Tags: Australia Day, Australian Register of the National Estate, Bob Carr, Bunjulung Wahla-Bal Custodian, Corroboree for Sovereignty, Dudley Leggett, First Fleet, genocide, I am Australian, Indigenous law, Indigenous Sovereignty, John Passant, Kakadu National Park, Lassa Oppenheim, Michael Brull, national anthem, Patrick McCauley, Pilliga State Forest, Ranger mine, Ruth Forsythe, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott

Ruth Forsythe examines the Tent Embassy’s 40 year anniversary celebration “Corroboree for Sovereignty” and the political and media understanding of the surrrounding issues — as well as asking Bunjulung Wahla-Bal Custodian, the Lore/Lawperson of the 13 tribes and 13 sacred rivers that comprise the Bunjulung Nation, what sovereignty means to Indigenous peoples.

Our vaguely discriminatory colonial Constitution

Posted On Thursday, 02 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian identity, Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, Republic Tags: Australian Constitution, Constitutional reform, David Donovan, Edmund Barton, flawed Australian Constitution, Governor General, Indigenous, role of Prime Minister, Thomas Jefferson

The Australian nation and its stability exists despite our limited, vague and racially discriminatory Constitution, says managing editor David Donovan. We must seize the opportunity to create a relevant, inspiring and inclusive statement of Australian nationhood in place of this highly flawed document.

Australian racism is alive and flourishing

Posted On Tuesday, 31 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, New Australians Tags: Australian racism, Charlie Teo, Colonialism, convicts, Cronulla riots, David Donovan, Edmund Burke, Immigrants, Indigenous dispossession, intolerance, Julia Gillard, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott

The reaction to the Tent Embassy incident shows that Australian racism and intolerance is alive and well; managing editor David Donovan says it’s time for Australians to grow up.

A house divided

Posted On Monday, 30 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Australian history, Australian identity, Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, Politics Tags: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Australia Day, Australian identity, exclusionary nationalism, Henry Pill, Indigenous, John Howard, leadership, Martin Flanagan, nationalism, racial divisions, racism

“Exclusionary nationalism is a sickness caused by the divisive and opportunistic leadership of Howard,” says Henry Pill. “It will remain strong, and racial tensions will remain high, and debates over the meaning of Australia day will rage ever longer, without leadership which rejects the ever-dangerous spoils of racial politics.”

Tony Abbott and the Tent Embassy

Posted On Saturday, 28 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Indigenous Australia, Politics Tags: Abbott comments about Tent Embassy, Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Indigenous, John Turnbull, Julia Gillard, protests, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott

Why did Tony Abbott retract his comments about it being time for the Aboriginal Tent Embassy to move on? John Turnbull comments.

Confirmation Gillard and Abbott were never threatened by Indigenous activists

Posted On Friday, 27 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Indigenous Australia, Media, Politics Tags: Aboriginal, bodyguards, David Donovan, demonstrations, Indigenous, ISP, John Passant, Julia Gillard, mainstream media, protective services, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott, Wil Wallace

More eyewitness accounts confirm Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott were never under attack by Aboriginal protestors, but rather the victims of over-excited bodyguards. Managing editor David Donovan reports.

Gillard and Abbott were never really threatened by Aboriginal protestors

Posted On Thursday, 26 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, Politics Tags: Canberra, demonstration, Gillard jostled, Indigenous, John Passant, Julia Gillard, Land rights, Porkbarrel Café, protests, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott, Treaty

The official account portrays Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as being attacked by violent Aboriginal demonstrators today in Canberra. Present at the demonstrations was John Passant — who paints a rather different picture of events.

Australia Day in black and white

Posted On Thursday, 26 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Australian history, Australian identity, Indigenous Australia Tags: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Australia Day, Barack Obama, Colonialism, Dispossession, Indigenous Australia, Indigenous recognition, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Lynne Kosky, Mabo, Malcolm Fraser, Memphis, Mick Dodson, Night of the Iguana, reconciliation, Ron Barassi, Tess Lawrence, Treaty

"Many of our people call it invasion day," said Mr Mick Dodson, a professor of law at the Australian National University. "To many indigenous Australians, in fact, most indigenous Australians, it really reflects the day in which our world came crashing down."