Sovereign Union

This is a Phillip Adams interview with an expert on First Nations history, Dr Ray Kerkhove, who has undertaken new research on the warfare between First Nations people and the British advancement in Queensland during the 19th century - he has some interesting findings on Nations rallying together across Eastern states to fight the invaders ... and more. 'Latenight Live' ABC RN Wednesday 11 March 2...

An excerpt from Marjorie Thorpe's speech at an Invasion Day Rally Marjorie Thorpe is a descendant of the Gunnai and Maar people of Victoria Thanks to 3CR's 'Earth Matters' program for the audio

Cabbage Tree Island is a large, flat, teardrop of sugar cane land on a reach of the Richmond River on the New South Wales far north coast. It is also home to the Njangbal clan of the Bundjalung people, and it is 'country' for former Jali Local Aboriginal Land Council chairwoman Sandra Bolt. In the 1950s and 60s, Mrs Bolt's mother was assiduous in making sure the house was spick and span, and all 1...

A member of the newly-formed Referendum Council has questioned whether a referendum recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution should be held at all.

TRANSCRIPT The Squatters' Thesaurus By Geoff Page The frontier runs are cleared by language. Myall niggers are dispersed. The Bible and Charles Darwin both declare the sons of Cain are cursed.  Two squatters on a front verandah put their feet up to relax and talk of last month's dressing down or proper thumping of the blacks. That lad of mine, one squatter smiles, is much too keen on rushing gins....

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Jack Charles who was awarded Victorian Senior Australian of the Year in October 2015 but was asked to pay up front for his taxi ride because he was Aboriginal. (pic courtesy of abc.net.au )

In Western Australia the number of Aboriginal children being removed from their parents has almost doubled in the last five years. Now Indigenous leaders are proposing that children could be looked after by elders on former missions as an alternative to foster care. Lucy Martin reports for ABC RN 'The World Today' 22 October 2015 TRANSCRIPT: http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2015/s4336740.h...

The first shipment of Australia's nuclear waste to be returned from reprocessing in France has now left a French port, and will arrive on our shores next month. The return of the 25 tonnes of nuclear waste is putting renewed pressure on the Federal Government to find a location for a permanent waste dump. Natalie Whiting ABC The World Today Read more + Transcript http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/c...

Palm Islanders have welcomed a Court decision awarding compensation over police mistreatment after the 2004 Palm Island riot. The riot followed a police death in custody and in the aftermath, six police conducted a pre-dawn raid on a home, where they've now been found to have assaulted and falsely imprisoned a couple. Transcript: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2015/s4327034.htm

Ancient rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula are among more than 1,000 sites the WA government removed or blocked from its Aboriginal heritage register in the last two-and-a-half years. In 2012 the government created a narrower definition of sacred sites. The Supreme Court has thrown out those changes, but the government now wants a single public servant to determine sacred sites. Sarah Dingle in...

A pastoralist from Western Australia is calling for Indigenous ranger groups to take a more active role in preventing and fighting bushfires in the Kimberley, saying the number of fires in the region was "absolutely ridiculous".6809606 Gogo Station development manager Phillip Hams wants rangers under the auspices of the Kimberley Land Council to have a greater focus on combating fires which ravage...

Dr Robert Paddle, a comparative psychologist at the Australian Catholic University, has spent years studying the behaviour of one of Australia's most misunderstood creatures, the Thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger. And he is the author of the seminal go-to book on the animal's extinction, The Last Tasmanian Tiger. Lately, Dr Paddle has been researching the untold history of the women...

ABC Radio National Background Briefing Police in Darwin have jailed nearly 1,000 Aboriginal people under new public order laws that allow detention without an arrest warrant. Following a black death in custody, the coroner said the laws should be repealed because they perpetuate and entrench Indigenous disadvantage. But the NT government is refusing to budge. So have 'paperless arrests' reduced cr...

Aboriginal Elder Aunty Jessie Clarke from Bordertown (SA/Vic border) turned 100 on 21 September 2015 More than 300 friends and relatives filled the Bordertown Hall on Saturday for an early celebration of the milestone. Aunty Jessie was born at Swan Hill. Her mother was Aboriginal; her father was English. She married an Aboriginal man, Laurie Clarke, and they moved to the Bordertown area where they...

The Transcript MARK COLVIN: Who'll be in charge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs in a Turnbull Government? Senator Nigel Scullion may stay as Indigenous Affairs Minister, but he's in the outer ministry - Tony Abbott always said Indigenous questions were his responsibility inside the Cabinet itself. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, w...

Up until the 1970s, generations of Aboriginal workers in WA had their wages systematically stolen over decades, and only a small minority received reparation—just $2,000 in 2012. Sarah Dingle reveals the secret calculations that recommended a much higher sum, and government efforts to minimise payouts. ABC Radio National 'Background Briefing' - See more:- http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/progra...

In Western Australia, the government is facing a potential class action over its controversial Stolen Wages Reparations Scheme. The scheme paid Aboriginal people a maximum of $2,000 in recognition of decades of withheld wages. Now, a Background Briefing investigation has uncovered secret financial modelling commissioned by the Government which suggests the Government owes the workers much more tha...

In Queensland the discovery of the fossilised remains of a 23 million-year-old rainforest in the Gold Coast hinterland is shining light on a little understood period of geological history. The fossils were unearthed from a creek bed by a curious bushwalker who took them to the Queensland Museum for analysis.

The Northern Territory Government is grappling with a looming environmental disaster at one of the world's biggest zinc, lead and silver mines. The McArthur mine is located about 900 kilometres south-east of Darwin in Gulf Country, and is operated by the Swiss mining giant Glencore. Documents released through a Freedom on Information request now reveal though that Glencore is failing to manage the...

A contemporary artistic response to Lachlan Macquarie's term as governor of NSW, and the crossing of the Blue Mountains. Artist Tim Miller became fascinated with the expansion of settlement west of Sydney during Macquarie's tenure. What would have been seen by the first European explorers and how their arrival might have been perceived by the local Indigenous peoples? Source: ABC Radio National 'E...

Artistic perceptions of Lachlan Macquarie's time as governor of New South Wales. Australian artist Keith Dewell has a fascination with the human form—his drawings express ways in which the physicality of the human body exposes inner emotion. In a recent exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of Lachlan Macquarie's governorship, Keith contributes an insight into both the Aboriginal and the convi...

Joseph Lycett was a convicted English forger who was transported to New South Wales in the early nineteenth century. He had a colourful existence in Australia and documented the life of First Nations people of the Newcastle region at that time. - More info and images:- http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/true-light-and-shade-aboriginal-perspective-joseph-lycetts-artartist/6599240

There has been considerable misunderstandings about 1967 Referendum both in Aboriginal and mainstream Australians circles. Here is an audio made for SBS World News Radio by Ron Sutton in March 2014

For almost three decades, Pat O’Shane, the fiery daughter of an Aboriginal mother and an Irish father, was one of Australia’s most famous magistrates. In 27 eventful years on the bench, she was frequently under attack, her name never far from the word ‘controversial’ for some of her decisions and public comments. In this interview with Julia Baird on Radio National, Pat, now retired, talks about e...