Caterine VaubanJul 27, 2024

I can't imagine spending my entire 39 years convincing the government that I live here and need some rights to determine what goes on here.

Nevermind that my efforts would have been unsuccessful were it not for a champion (Eddie #Mabo) 3500km away taking his people's fight to the High Court of Australia eight years after I started.

Read "Djarindjin community in WA's Kimberley formally recognised by state government" via https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/112846032303824868

#SovereigntyWasNeverCeded #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

ABC Feeds (@[email protected])

'For the younger generations': Remote Aboriginal community formally recognised for first time By Rosanne Maloney Leaders in Djarindjin hope long-awaited recognition from the WA government will trigger economic and social development. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-25/djarindjin-community-proclamation-celebration-western-australia/104133456 #LandRights #IndigenousPolicy #Aboriginal #GovernmentandPolitics #RosanneMaloney

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Peter RileyJun 2, 2024

June 3rd 2024 #Mabo Day: end of #TerraNullius legal fiction of British Colonisation.

Public holiday across #TorresStrait islands and commemorated by other communities too.

#firstNations #Mer #EllenJose #Wongai

Alastair Bor 🇦🇺Feb 7, 2024
#Australian dual olympian, hall-of-famer, federal senator and #Aboriginal affairs activist Nova Peris on the strong links and solidarity between the #Jewish and Aboriginal communities. #Mabo #AusPol #Antisemitism
Peter RileyDec 16, 2023

If only “ rivers run free “

https://theconversation.com/the-lie-of-aqua-nullius-nobodys-water-prevails-in-australia-indigenous-water-reserves-are-not-enough-to-deliver-justice-195557

Also
https://theconversation.com/terra-nullius-has-been-overturned-now-we-must-reverse-aqua-nullius-and-return-water-rights-to-first-nations-people-180037

#FirstNations #WaterisLife #aquifers #riverecology
#decolonize #extractivism #colonialism
#TerraNullius #Mabo #LandBack

The lie of aqua nullius, ‘nobody’s water', prevails in Australia. Indigenous water reserves are not enough to deliver justice

In the struggle against aqua nullius, Indigenous people’s right to make decisions about water on Country is a priority.

The Conversation
Matthew RimmerNov 7, 2023
New High Court chief justice Stephen Gageler formally acknowledges Indigenous Australians during swearing-in ceremony https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-06/stephen-gageler-sworn-in-as-new-high-court-chief-justice/103067860 via @ABCaustralia #auslaw #auspol #IndigenousIP #Mabo "This being a ceremonial sitting ... of a court having nation-wide jurisdiction, I also acknowledge traditional owners and custodians of lands in all parts of the continent of Australia, of Tasmania, of the Torres Strait Islands, and of other coastal islands.
"I do so in the place – in the very courtroom – where traditional laws and customs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were first recognised by the common law of Australia, in the decision of this court in Mabo v State of Queensland (No 2)."
New High Court chief justice Stephen Gageler formally acknowledges Indigenous Australians during swearing-in ceremony

Stephen Gageler has been sworn in as Australia's 14th Chief Justice of the High Court, taking on one of the most powerful jobs in the country.

ABC News
TimOct 30, 2023
Mer Land Bilong Islanders #mabo
https://youtu.be/2K0vjTzEjbs?si=KcP5kO_Lt6gUv2lb
Mer Land Bilong Islanders

YouTube
Peter RileyOct 8, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/08/the-history-of-the-climate-movement-is-very-white-how-youth-campaigners-took-on-a-mining-giant-and-won

#FirstNations #landback #Wirdi
#Mabo #TerraNullius
#GalileeBasin #fossilfools

2023 #YoungVoltaireAward

‘The history of the climate movement is very white’: how youth campaigners took on a mining giant and won

Murrawah Johnson and Monique Jeffs have been awarded a Young Voltaire human rights award for their victory over Waratah Coal’s Galilee basin coal project

The Guardian
Jason GoroncyAug 20, 2023

'[R]ent due to First Nations represents just 9.5 per cent of the extracted value – less than a traditional British tithe – the settlers keeping over 90 per cent for their efforts. Contemporaries invented terra nullius to deny #Aboriginal people #property #rights and any claim as landlords for #rent from the colonists or the British state. After #Mabo this view is less tenable'.

– David Meredith

https://johnmenadue.com/pay-the-colonial-rent/

Pay the (colonial) rent? - Pearls and Irritations

Indigenous artist Richard Bell’s latest ‘Pay the rent!’ installation at Tate Mod reveals the intractable problems of our white settlement.

Pearls and Irritations
Jason GoroncyJan 20, 2023

'Why should the people whose #land has been stolen have to prove our land was stolen? Why does the crown own land on this continent when the #Mabo decision technically overturned the doctrine of #TerraNullius and the existence of crown land on this continent? This is the heart of the matter – the proof that the legal system of colonial lands is not an equal one, is not ready to decolonise, to reconcile, for Treaty'.

– @clairegcoleman, https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2023/01/21/the-crown-owns-no-land

#Australia

The crown owns no land

It’s that special time of the year again, when people talk about reconciliation, treaty, land rights, invasion, colonisation and Australia. The time of the year when racists fume and rant, when anti-racists and post-colonialists tell us they care and want us to be happy; the time of year when many Aboriginal people face the choice: fight or hide. January can be toxic, mostly because it’s the lead-up to the worst of Australian holidays, “Australia Day”.

The Saturday Paper