irene watson wrote
i think the arguments below produce a very convincing no and no again vote
for the big day.
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From: Allison Hoolihan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Watson Irene [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hello from Tent Embassy Mob.
Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 1:40 AM
11.00AM
29 October 1999
Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Lawns Opposite Old Parliament House, CANBERRA
Phone/Fax: (02) 62950493 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website:
www.aboriginaltentembassy.com.au
ABORIGINAL TENT EMBASSY SAYS REFERENDUM IS A FARCE
SAY YES TO ABORIGINAL SOVEREIGNTY SAY NO TO THE COLONY CON
White Australia wants a Republic. White Australia is aiming to vote away
the legal fiction which is the Sovereignty of the British Crown. They
will
replace it with another legal fiction the Sovereignty of the Australian
Republic.
From 1788 the first settlers and representatives of the British monarchy
stole our land and waged war on us. They were merely trespassers. No
reparations, no compensation, no agreement has ever been made to legalise
the situation. Their claim to ownership by means of the power created by
the British Crown to own what it chooses is a legal fiction, acknowledged
only by the White Australian domestic Courts. When the High Court of
Australia gives a judgment upon Aboriginal Ownership the Court must first
endorse its own status; that is
its power to pass judgment at all. In affirming that status the court
has
to depend on the original Australian fiction; "the British Crown gave us
ownership and power." As long as this state of affairs exists,
Aboriginal
People will continue to be robbed, cheated and left landless. Whether
the
Head of State is a Queen or a President, British or Australian. Worse,
it
will tell the lie that the issue of Aboriginal Sovereignty has been
resolved.
For over 200 years the first lie of the Crown's ownership of the
Australian
Continent left Aboriginal People cheated, robbed and landless and the
object of systematic attempted genocide and ethnocide. Aboriginal People
will continue to be left out of the picture, marginalised and even once
again invisible. The transfer of a known illegal title to another party
doesn't make that title legal. It compounds the crime of theft. The true
legal position for Aboriginal People on the Australian Continent is
defined
by the principles of the Western Sahara case decided by the
International
Court of Justice and also defined in International Instruments. If we,
the
Aboriginal People could get our case to the International Court we could
expect Justice and a complete change in both our spiritual and material
positions.
The Australian government thus far, but not forever has prevented our
access to the International Court. We will attack White Australia in all
the International, even domestic Courts available to us. Let us approach
every International Tribunal possible, showing that White Australia is
cynically demonstrating its true position; that it can without any
pretense
of legal fiction simply take our land.
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy says we will win.
PREAMBLE NO We were left out in 1788
REPUBLIC NO and in 1901. Will we be
ABORIGINAL SOVEREIGNTYYES left out again in 2001?
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