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.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. 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.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.
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