Sovereign Union

Veteran Tasmanian campaigner Michael Mansell says First Nations people across the country are again finding their voice and “the fire in the belly” to renew campaigns and challenge Governments over their choice of advice and inability to engage with grass roots organisations. Former ATSIC boss Geoff Clarke says that there are mechanisms in the United Nations system where daily reports within Austr...

"People on Country, Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures" is a compilation of essays looking at some of the more positive aspects of Australia's Indigenous people managing their country. It stems from the People and Country project which is jointly funded by the Australian National University, the New South Wales government and the Australian Research Council The book has thirteen contributors, ea...

Australia’s First Nations sovereignty movement, Sovereign Union, has called upon the United Nations to deny Australia’s Security Council seat bid. The movement argues Australia is founded upon a colonial state that is in breach of the Human Rights Conventions in its treatment of Indigenous Australians. The Wire community radio spoke to Michael Anderson, Chair of the sovereignty movement about thei...

Brisbane's Aboriginal Tent Embassy at Musgrave Park has burnt to the ground. Local resident and 612 Breakfast family affairs reported Susan Hetherington reports live from the scene - 02 October 2012

Australia sent about 16-thousand troops to fight and by the war's end more than 500 were dead. Two years ago Dr Dale Kerwin from Griffith University found 50 Aboriginal trackers also served and many were left behind when Australian troops returned home in 1902. Their contribution will now be included as part of a Boer War memorial planned for ANZAC Parade at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra...

Between 1899 and 1902, fifty Aboriginal black trackers were summonsed by the British forces in South Africa to join the Boer war effort. Griffith University's Indigenous research fellow, Dr Dale Kerwin said that the black trackers came from all over the country but very little else is known about them. He claims they were left behind at the end of the war in 1902 because they were denied re-entry...

Moree Fire Brigade attended the Embassy after a an anonymous call that the Embassy infrastructure was ablaze. Police said they are investigating! ABC New England report 18/09/12

An inquest into another First Nations death in custody has prompted questions about what's changed, 25 years since the Royal Commission into the issue. Twenty-five years ago, the Royal Commission into 'Aboriginal Deaths in Custody' was established to investigate why so many First Nations people died while while held in state and territory jails. In September 2012, the Northern Territory coroner re...

The culture within the Northern Territory Police which has allowed aggressive behaviour displayed by some officers against First Nations people to go virtually unchecked is being condemned by human rights experts. CAAMA News report - 20/9/12

Emotional and angry scenes outside the Alice Springs Courthouse on Monday 17 September 2012 when the Northern Territory Coroner announced that the death of a First Nations man in custody was due to a series of errors by police and could have been prevented. CAAMA Radio - News Report

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was offered an First Nations Nations passport in an inner-city Sydney ceremony after he was "abandoned" by Australian authorities. His father, John Shipton, accepted the document at a celebration in Darlington on 15 September 2012. CAAMA News report. Mr Shipton said his son had been jilted by the Australian government, and the passport ceremony - which follows Ecua...

Fortescue Metals Group, has admitted to the destruction of Aboriginal sites at its Solomon Hub project in Western Australia's Pilbara. In November 2011, Indigenous people said sites had been damaged but FMG dismissed the claims as offensive and untrue. Now, the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation has documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information act, showing that two heritage sites were des...

Ray Jackson, President of Indigenous Social Justice Association (ABC 'The World Today' - Report) The Shooting of 6 unarmed First Australian occupants of an alleged stolen car by police officers at Kings Cross

Ray Jackson, President of Indigenous Social Justice Association (SBS News Report) Shooting of 6 unarmed First Australian occupants of an alleged stolen car by police officers at Kings Cross

I worked for shirt, hat, boots: stockman Geoffery Fletcher. An archived ABC Kimberley 'Stolen Wages' Interview

Michael Mansell on Constitutional Reform. From CAAMA News with Paul Wiles.

In August 1966, Gurindji man Vincent Lingiari led Aboriginal workers on a walk-off at Wave Hill pastoral station in the Northern Territory. They were protesting against discriminatory working conditions, but they also demanded the return of their traditional land. At the time, this land was leased from the Government by a British pastoral company, Vesteys. The protest eventually led to land being...

Representatives from three Aboriginal homelands in Australia's Northern Territory have called for more consultation with the Federal Government on policies affecting indigenous people. They've just returned from visiting Canberra, where they raised concerns about legislation known as "Stronger Futures". They say the policy is pushing Aboriginal people to move away from their traditional homelands...

Treaty – the importance of Treaty and its relevance today and in the future – Robbie Thorpe, Melbourne based Activist. Melbourne New Way Summit - 3rd July 2010

Professor Gracelyn Smallwood said in an interview for Noosa Community Radio she expects her three talks, based on her PhD thesis to go feral internationally. The thesis is to be published by a London publisher Routledge "because it was too hot a potato for Australian publishers" she approached. Audio 1. Australia is a racist society and we cannot reconcile without the truth

Professor Gracelyn Smallwood said in an interview for Noosa Community Radio she expects her three talks, based on her PhD thesis to go feral internationally. The thesis is to be published by a London publisher Routledge "because it was too hot a potato for Australian publishers" she approached. Audio 1. If we didn't collect enough copper wire and bottles to sell, we starved

Professor Gracelyn Smallwood said in an interview for Noosa Community Radio she expects her three talks, based on her PhD thesis to go feral internationally. The thesis is to be published by a London publisher Routledge "because it was too hot a potato for Australian publishers" she approached. Audio 1. Horrified about Australia's deep dark secret

Palm Island's mayor Alf Lacey wants the Queensland government to compensate his community for emotional trauma if it agrees to pay the legal costs for a police officer cleared of the brutal killing Mr Doomadgee in the island's watchhouse. Mayor Lacey said the application's approval would be yet another blow for the community, which feels it has been denied justice over the incident. - CAAMA Radio...

On December 10, 1992. The Hon. Paul Keating Prime Minister of Australia gave this address in Redfern NSW to launch the International Year of the World's Indigenous People.

CAAMA News - Paul Wyles