Steven Porter: Moree Protecting Aboriginal Allodial Sovereign Rights
We’ve all got different nationalities in this country. I don’t class myself as an Australian Aboriginal or as Indigenous. I’m a Walaraay Mari of the Gamilaraay Nation. We have never been classified as our allodial nationalities. Does this government or any law in this country acknowledge me and my nationality? The establishment of this country was illegal. You cannot discover something where it was already occupied plain and simple.
Australia’s first nation people only make up 2.9% of the whole population and the illegal government want 97.1% of the population to vote on our liberties. That’s not democracy, that’s indoctrination. If there’s going to be a Referendum it needs to be put to us, the First Nations people of this country. Ask us if we would like to be included in this country’s Constitution.
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I partially agree with this un-named Aboriginal. I would like to see the recognition of all the different Aboriginal nations, but full redress is not practical, because history moves on. Do we want the Celts protesting about the Roman invasion of England in 55 BC? then should Englanders get upset about the Viking invasions? and then the Anglo-Saxon invasions? and then in 1066 “William the Conqueror” defeated Harold King of England at the battle of Hastings, and then all the different peoples settled down and interbred for centuries to give us our British heritage. I disagree with protests between Palestinians and Israelis, because every border of every country (e.g. Bulgaria vs Romania, France vs Germany, Austria vs Italy, Israel vs Syria etc) has been settled by military conquests, after which people settle down for centuries and ‘get over’ the past conflicts. I was against ‘the Voice’ referendum proposal, because I am well aware from having worked alongside my friend Flo Grant in Canberra in the late 1980s and early 1990s, that there are about 300 Aboriginal tribes. She was a senior Wiradjuri elder, and a notable historian; she showed me a map of Australia that she and others were working on and it showed (by memory) about 300 tribes, each having their own area. My opposition to ‘the voice’ referendum was that the silly proposal by Professor Marcia Langton (who began as a Communist) was to have (by memory) about 35 people on the voice committee. That is stupid – it needed to be about 300 people on the committee, each one being elected by a specific tribe. And to achieve such a committee to advise governments did not need a referendum, and did not need amending the Constitution (which is always clumsy and unlikely to succeed). But it would need an adequate definition of who is an Aboriginal, namely a person who can prove their ancestry – and only such persons should be eligible to vote on who would represent them in a Voice committee. While our British colonisers did some bad things, there is one thing that they were good at, namely running Registries of Births, Deaths and Marriages, so it is easy to prove if one of a person’s ancestors was truly an Aboriginal. One of my son’s friends, who came from Sicily, and therefore has slightly brown skin, got free education thru University by claiming (pretending) to be an Aboriginal. “Identifying as an Aboriginal” (which is what he did, because weak governments allow it) is a farce, and should not be allowed. He ran his own business with offices in Melbourne and Sydney, and accumulated (by memory) $30,000 in parking fines. Transport officers were going to cancel his Driver licence and Car registration until he paid up, but then he mentioned that he is an Aboriginal, so they backed off, and applied different laws or interpretations to him as an Aboriginal that they would not apply to white people. They allowed him to pay the debt off at (by memory) $16 per week, which would require 40 years to pay off. I like Bob Katter MP because he favoured back in the 1980s for Aboriginals to be granted freehold title of blocks of land. The notion of so-called “Native Title” which rests in a vague community is in my view a cruel mirage, because it would be better to grant eligible Aboriginals proper freehold title over blocks of land – there is plenty of excess Crown lands which could be carved up into many blocks to be given to them; such a system would not be perfect (nothing in this life is perfect) but it would be better than Native Title.
I just came back from my first trip to Europe and was speaking to an English couple on the trip and their English friends that had been living in Australia for many years. It got me thinking. My ancestors came out to Australia and bought the land they lived on from other people and had to pay it off. The only people that didn’t pay for the land were the original English. Therefore the English committed any issues with land and ownership etc. with the aboriginals and therefore the English should pay any kind of restitution, not free settlers that paid for the land in good faith, not knowing anything about the history of that land.