#Indiginous People of Australia

[reasonsforhope]

"In an open-air courtroom set up in a nature reserve in Western NSW, a four-nation clan has secured one of the largest native title claims in the region's history. 

Far from the four walls and formalities of a federal courtroom, Justice Melissa Perry delivered her determination at Newey Reserve in Cobar on Wednesday, recognising the native title rights of the Ngemba, Ngiyampaa, Wangaaypuwan and Wayilwan peoples.

The decision marks the successful end of a 12-year legal battle that began in 2012.

The claim covers more than 95,000 square kilometres of land and water from the Barwon River in the north, to the Lachlan River in the south, the Castlereagh River in the east and Ivanhoe to the west. 

It recognises native title rights including the right to hunt, fish and gather resources, the right to access and camp on land and right to protect places of cultural and spiritual importance.

A legacy for future custodians 

Aunty Elaine Ohlsen, a Ngiyampaa Elder from Cobar and one of the original applicants, said the decision brought her "mixed emotions".

"I just persevered," she said.

"We've been through a lot of trials and tribulations to get here, but I'm someone who won't give up fighting for our people."

"These sorts of things need to happen all the time, because we need to know who we are and where we come from and where we are in this country."

Aunty Elaine hopes the determination will inspire future generations to continue their ancestors' legacy.

"Hopefully, this will encourage them to stay connected to their country, heritage, and culture, and to carry on the hard work we've done," she said.

Vision for the future

Wangaaypuwan man and claim applicant John Shipp recently camped on country with four generations of his family.

He said the recognition of native title meant they could continue to do so without fear of being moved on.

"It's just those little things that give us our connection back to our land, our heritage, our culture," he said.

The native title holders have now formed the Ngemba, Ngiyampaa, Wangaaypuwan Wayilwan Aboriginal Corporation (NNWW Corporation) to manage their rights.

As a director of the NNWW Corporation, Mr Shipp sees the determination as the beginning of a new chapter...

As for Mr Shipp's message to other Indigenous groups fighting for recognition?

"Keep going — it's getting better, it's getting shorter, it's happening, just keep going," he said."

-via ABC News Australia, August 14, 2024

[hasellia]

Hey don't cry, here's a story about a boy and a puppy thylacine (Kaparunina*) from the people who saw them.

How the Tasmanian Tiger got his stripes.

*Kaparunina is the name of the Tasmanian Tiger in Palawa kani, a reconstructed/composite language created by people of various indigenous tribes of Tasmania.

There is a referral to rape later on in the video, but the actual story stops before that.

[radlymona]

The Voice referendum has pretty decisively failed :/

[head-post]

Australian and New Zealand Indigenous Policies: differences and causal links

At the Auckland Art Gallery this week, artist Vernon Ah Kee unveiled the largest collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art ever seen in New Zealand.

The exhibition was dedicated to Resistance and Colonisation. Vernon Ah Kee presented there his 2002 work entitled If I Was White.

If I was White, I could wear a suit and tie and not look suspicious. If I was White, I could shop in luxury stores and not look suspicious. If I was White, I would not have to live in a country that hates me. If I was White, I would have a country.

Some visitors to the New Zealand Exhibition, such as 65-year-old Debbie May, spotted a connection to Australia’s Indigenous referendum called The Voice.

Talk of indigenous rights in New Zealand is increasingly popping up among the population, while neighbouring Australia has launched a landmark vote.

Read more HERE

[spaceandthedigitalfrontier]

😗 — what are some of your favorite things to do when you have some time to yourself?

💯 — share three random facts about yourself that your mutuals may not know about you.

😗: either writing (currently mostly rp, though I sometimes write drabbles, my long fic is on hiatus and has been for two years now, unfortunately), crafts (currently crochet, embarrassingly thanks to my main muse, Ed, though others I've taken up in the past include friendship bracelets and book binding...), or volunteering with the local greyhound adoption group. I also like to go hiking and would like to try backpacking but the first is contingent on having the energy for it, and the second on time, which I won't have much of for at least the rest of the month.

💯: hmmm. Okay...

I have storm spotter certification for the area of Maine that my local weather forecasting office covers, as well as for the Norman, OK forecasting area where I used to live!

My brother and I are exactly thirteen months apart, to the day. He has always been my best friend.

I've been to Greenland, Iceland, France, Belgium, Canada, and Mexico, and some places I hope to eventually visit are Spain, Chile, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand. I also really want to visit Antarctica, and though that one isn't impossible given I'm surrounded by folks who study ice cores, that currently isn't my path.

Several fun facts not specifically about me but that is of interest to you: Without giving out the specific tribe name since that could potentially dox me, I live on the ancestral land of the Wabanaki people; Wabananaki means 'people of the dawn'. The kalallitsut (greenlandic) word for 'thank you' is qajanaq (j makes i sound), and the Inupiaq (if I'm remembering the workshop correctly) word is kayanakpak.

I should probably say here that I am not an indiginous person, but the program I am part of has a large focus on co-production with indigenous groups in Maine and in Greenland.

[eggthew]

who the fuck is telling americans that australians aren't racist. especially so soon after the voice referendum. are you aware of white australian history. australia is absolutely full of white supremacy oh my god

edit: I didnt realise that the guy in the background is a fucking COP oh my god. absolutely fucking disgusting. more than 547 indiginous Australians have died in police custody since 1991, and that indigenous Australians have a disproportionately high incarceration rates. Police brutality is absolutely a fucking problem over here, ESPECIALLY towards people of colour, ESPECIALLY towards indiginous Australians

[international-intelligence-inc]

i THINK THEY ARE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED. THERE IS NO PHOTO LIKE IT ONJLY MINE ANYWHERE ON GOOGLE PHOTOS. IT WAS ON MY WINDOWS WHICH Was CRACKED IN BLOOMINGDALE NEW JERSEY USA AN EXTREMELY RARE AUSTRALIAN WIDOW IT CAME WITH MY IRV STARR HIT MAN FATHER FROM AUSTRALIA PERTH CATABERRRA MI5 SECURITY HEADQUARTERS (FROWN).

DO YOU KNOW THE CIA TAUGHT ME THE CHEAPEST FORM OF GETTING (I SAWE IT MYSELF) INDIGINOUS PEOPLE OFF THEIR LANDS IN AFRICA WAS TO YSE ARMY ANTS THEY WOULD TEAR VILLAGE AFTER VILLAGE APART TO BUILD A NEW NUCLEAR# VPOWER PLANT. NOT NICE FIRST THE USA BLACKWATER WOULD JUST START SHOOTING THE INDIGINOUS PERSONS AND CHILDRFEN IN THE BVACK UNTIL THEY RAN AND THEY KEPT SHOOTING THEM DEAD IN FRONT OF ME AS A KID #CRIMESAGAINSTHUMAITY #HAGUE #SERGEBRAMMERTZ THE #DUTCH #MONEYLAUNDERER #VANDERSLOOT MY FATHER'S #EMBEZZLER #BUDDY #NATALLYHOLLWAY

[is-solarpunk]

Solarpunk Writing Prompts #12

Here you can listen to original podcast

Here is the source of the podcast's transcript you can read below

Solarpunk Prompts - The Expedition

Hello world. I'm Tomasino.

This is Solarpunk Prompts, a series for writers where we discuss Solarpunk, a movement that imagines a world where technology is used for the good of the planet.

In this series we spend each episode exploring a single Solarpunk story prompt adding some commentary, some inspirations, and some considerations.

If this is your first time here, I'd recommend checking out our introduction episode first, where we talk about what Solarpunk is, why you should care, and why this series came into being.

Tonight our prompt is about the Global South on a mission North. It is called: "The Expedition"

A group of doctors and engineers from a Global South country are sent on a mission in the North, helping the specialists there live in the world after The Great Internet Collapse, where the AIs will no longer make suggestions and the Clouds can't calculate the load bearing strength of a pillar.

What is the Global South?

The concept of the Global South and Global North are not strictly geographical. Indeed, a large portion of the Global South is above the equator. Instead the terms refer to a grouping of countries along a socio-economic and political boundaries.

The Global South usually refers to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. The term came about as an alternative to "Third World" which doesn't devalue those it speaks of.

The Global North, then, usually refers to North America, Europe, Australia, and Russia. It's sometimes used in place of "developed countries".

Over the last 30 years the Global South has been on the rise politically, economically, and technologically. Some of that has been due to the migration of manufacturing and production, but there have also been major independent cultural shifts across the globe.

It's very difficult to make broad claims about the state of the Global South despite the term being designed to do just that. The digital divide is a key metric used to separate the two, yet internet use in Asia far exceeds many places in the Global North.

The term "Global South" itself had its origins in the late 60s in the context of Vietnam. "The dominance of the north over the Global South" was the phrase, referring to the long history of colonialism between the regions.

Culturally the south holds the vast majority of indiginous peoples, the dominant religious bases, and the lesser share of money.

Former West-German Chancellor Willy Brandt created a visual line, quite squiggly, across the world dividing it into the wealthy north and the poor south.

In summary: Being categorized as part of the "North" implies development as opposed to belonging to the "South", which implies a lack thereof.

Reliance on technology in the North as a psychological factor

It is exactly that concept that has taught the Global South how to live and work around instability in their infrastructure, whether that be political, economic, or technological.

It is a mentality that simply doesn't exist in the north, as evidence by the runaway march toward total digital economic dependence.

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change wrote an article in 2019 on the state of economic infrastructure in the European Economic Area, stating:

Internet infrastructure services are both widespread and critical to businesses’ core functions, with significant volumes of economic activity dependent on them.

It continues:

[...] some infrastructure services, such as payments or cloud storage, can be thought of as critical infrastructure – any significant or prolonged failure of one of these could undermine the business’s ability to carry out its activities to a potentially existential degree, while possibly triggering a domino effect throughout the rest of the economy. It’s also important to note that many infrastructure businesses higher up the stack are themselves dependent on infrastructure businesses lower down the stack.

This is the main problem the Global North faces in our prompt. A rich, developed society run with fundamental infrastructure built online collapsing under the cascade of failures when that internet access disappears.

Picture a world only ten years in our future. Machine learning has advanced, AI has infiltrated many jobs. It may support a surgeon in their work, providing real-time data in the heat of the moment. Or it may be used in mechanical or civil engineering, providing simulation data that tests and retests the safety of bridges, pipes, or waterways. Students entering the field are taught to work with these systems, and learn to rely on them. Perhaps they learned the theory in school, but in practice you work with the standard tools of the trade. What's left is a gap of functionality. Either you have the tools or you regress to the basics, and practice with the in-between is lost.

Who can you turn to? Who would have the skills you need? Who can help?

Why is the Global South better for this?

The experts growing up in the Global South were forced to learn how to fix their own equipment, and to do so without expensive manufacturers' services. They hack, break, hotfix. They do what they need to make things work, whether it's with the technology or around it.

This type of free-form problem solving is a daily practice. There is far more experience with make-it-work attitudes.

Like Jugaad in India, the creative, inexpensive solution is the most effective because it keeps you moving forward despite your barriers.

This isn't to say that the Global South has no access or knowledge of modern technology. On the contrary, they not only need to know how to use those things, but deeply understand their functioning so they can be patched and maintained with parts never meant for the purpose.

That may mean knowing how to strip out DRM, Digital Rights Management, because a system was designed by people that only ever thought of it being used in the United States. They may need to bypass this or that check, or make a system work somewhere it wasn't intended.

Is it any wonder that Solarpunk found its start there?

We're talking about self-sufficiency here, not primitiveness.

Cuban doctors

Lets look at an example.

After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, Cuba established a program to send its medical personnel overseas, particularly to Latin America, Africa, and Oceania, and to bring medical students and patients to Cuba for training and treatment respectively.

This program became the backbone of what's been called Cuba's soft-diplomacy or doctor diplomacy. It's so successful, these traveling Cuban doctors have their own wikipedia page. But seriously, in 2015, Cuba had more than 50,000 health personnel in 103 different countries. That's more medical personal than all the G8 countries combined. Their work is focused on long-term, sustainable care in the most underserved populations around the world.

Imagine the life of a doctor from the Global South. This isn't her first time in the field, heading to some place desperate for her help. Her people call her a Salvager, dragging out what healing she can from hard-hit places. She knows she's walking into trouble, too. This will be hard. For every person who will cry for her help, there is another she'll have to convince. "We're just here to help," she'll repeat. Conditions will be terrible. They'll lack everything she needs, but she knows what to do to make do. That's her expertise, her experience.

What does that collapse look like?

So what might collapse look like in your story? Imagine all the "public-facing" internet failing. Yeah, some hackers can still get a local network going, maybe a server for a building, but no Facebook. No Amazon. A lot of doctors will say "No problem, most of our records are still on paper!" and then they'll laugh, until they realize their equipment is iOT, and won't work without a manufacturer's server running. No more cloud. No more Google search.

If that surgeon had become reliant on the AI assistant, well it's back to the basics again. Perhaps that's not so bad now, but in 10 years? In 20, when these practices become as commonplace as Excel in an office. Do you even remember using a green sheet? Manually tallying columns and checking your math again and again? How quickly the knowledge of the old way fades.

Then remember the domino effect. One system may be the basis for several more. Our economies are integrated, mixed things. Small disruptions can have major effects. How much worse would a major internet outtage be? Once it went from days to weeks, how many businesses would still survive? And without those functioning, what about food? What about heating? How far down the line do you really need to look before there is a total collapse?

But the internet couldn't really be disrupted, right? That's an extreme example for fiction. Is it believable?

We already see events today that mimic the same result. Ransomware attacks disable hospitals around the world.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ransomware-attacks-hospitals-take-toll-patients-rcna54090

https://www.aha.org/center/cybersecurity-and-risk-advisory-services/ransomware-attacks-hospitals-have-changed

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57184977

It's not just their registration systems. These attacks also affect the machines themselves. Thanks to IOT and Global North thinking, MRIs, tomographs, even dialysis machines can all stop working when they can't get online. When an attack like this hits, sometimes patients need to be transferred to another hospital.

Imagine if it happened to all of them.

Writing ideas

How can we approach these situations with fiction? The setting of the collapsing North is dramatic and will give plenty of impetus for action. The team being sent to aid them is clearly our community protagonist. That's the easy part.

How can we level that up?

Let's lean into the misconceptions to illustrate how painfully wrong they are. The Northern leaders, professors, or administrators may be offended at the idea of these vagrants sent to save them. It need not be vicious or mean, either. These could be well-intending people who lack inter-cultural literacy. Now we have extra tension on top of the infrastructure. Hospitals need to operate. The metro needs to go, even if it hasn't been serviced in a month. The conditions are terrible, and the people aren't even greatful for their help.

Can you feel the struggle there? Just imagine waking up into that reality. How strong must your personal sense of ethics be to withstand it, to weather that storm time and time again.

How strong are your ideals?

Until next time, I'm Tomasino. I hope you'll join me for the next Solarpunk Prompt.

Music in this recording is Esoteric Eye by S O A R E R from Global Pattern's compilation Solarpunk: A Brighter Perspective

[ithisatanytime]

Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone (B4You Remix) Terminator Music Video

 this is far less serious than its gonna sound like if anything i find it a bit endearing, but women are physically incapable of recognizing and avoiding controlled ops, the most based girl you know things andrew tate is bad ass. its because they are submissive and always seeking to submit to an authority, and in the modern age that means a celebrity. as a man i can agree with some of the things andrew tate or sean strickland says while recognizing them for the “ethnic” jews that  they are and with the understanding that they are literally turn coats who want us dead.

 Tate is a fed, his dad was a fed he admitted it on tape go on youtube, not just any fed but CIA a literal glowie, im not one for defending women but the audio of andrew tate beating on some shrieking whore for no reason other than monetary gain that was enough for me, and if im ever in a room with him and there is a rock handy i will cave in his FUCK UGLY head or get my ass whupped trying, and ive said it to him as directly as i can i mean hes a massively famous guy but hes also a champion kickboxer so i figured if i called him out on all his videos and his fans were in the comments underneath mine like “source on him being in the cia” and im there providing i expected SOME kind of response even just the message getting deleted ive gotten interactions from bigger celebrities for less, anywho, even if all that wasnt true i would hate him on instinct because he has a terminal case of faggot head and he talks like an absolute queer, i dont mean that in the homosexual sence and its not redundant with faggot i dont know how to explain it but hes as much a fag as he is a queer and ive never been aware of the distinction before really looking at this dudes fucked up jafar turtle head. sean strickland i desperately want to like but the UFC is OBVIOUSLY controlled like boxing is at a certain level, just look at who works on the commisions and in basically all positions behind the scenes, its show business, so i am aware that if the people need a hero they will seek to supply us with one and what better avenue for supplying do nothing heros than televised sports. sean strickland says all the right things but hes obviously fucking jewish, i fucking promise you, i can be more specific, he is descended from spanish converso sephardic jews who moved to australia, thats the phenotype, sephardics fly under most peoples radars start looking at people with hispanic last names more carefully, a lot of the tells of an ethnic jew are just subtle tells someone isnt ethnically european when if you didnt know better thats what you would mistake them for at a glance, when it comes to sephardics especially when they have middle eastern admixture from the south of spain, or indigenious admixture in mexico they will already present as none white so even someone pretty savvy might give a pass to attached earlobes dark eyes and or curly dark hair because these traits could just be indicators of southern moore spanish admixture, or again indigineous admixture in the americas. sean is saying all the right things... sort of, he was saying shit that would have been edgy back in 2012 and so is nate, no one is being exposed to anything new, they are both easy to dismiss if you dont already agree with them, nate being a faggot and sean strickland being “just some fighter” fighters arent known for their intellect or politeness so again easy to dismiss if you arent already part of the choir. neither of these men will name the jew, and in a post Ye world even naming the jew absolutely no longer gets you a pass, so how much more suspect is someone who claims to speak their mind and be fighting the matrix and redpilled but you wont name the jew in 2024?

 long story short women have no glowdar because they arent comfortable existing in a decentralized intellectual movement they need an authoritative nucleus to adhere around (in this case its celebrity) but i think its cute and none of this applies to you babe.

[thenihilistofthevoid]

"Giving that last one some thought... Might leave it for the others to find, 4 out of 5 isn't so bad." He mused, giving it some thought. What would seek out texture... "They're Tetragonula carbonaria. Better known as the sugarbag bee, they're a species of stingless bee native to North-Western Australia. The indigineous peoples of that region have been eating their honey for thousands of years, it's apparently very good for you."

Redline Condition

(A starter for @frogsonalotusleaf Yagi Big AU)

Why did he agree to help 1-A? Stupid Deku breaking himself, now he was expected to patch him up. He could have just taken on decades worth of crippling debt instead of exposing himself to a world he detested... Heroism, what a disgusting lie. No, keep it calm. Only a few more years of it and he'd have a good salary without medical school bills. Keep the green-haired injury prone masochist alive and go to the best school in the country-

Saburo nearly jumped out of his skin when the door opened, and the blonde figure in that ridiculous outfit appeared and he felt his blood boil with rage.

Perhaps even the reflection of the afternoon sun from his glasses lenses could not hide the fact that he was glaring hatefully at the man, gripping his pen hard enough to crack the plastic. Foundational Hero Studies, doubt he could skip it... If this was some fool scheme Nezu cooked up, he was going to see if any big cats would consider the humanoid rodent prey, and then make some to hunt him. Relaxing his grip on the pen, he pretended to look through his bag for something, trying to stop glaring. Think happier thoughts...

[wack-ashimself]

You ever notice how almost no matter where you go in the world, the indigenous people are treated like utter shit? Canada, USA, Australia, Russia. Oh...and those are all controlled by fucking white people. Gotta be a coincidence, right?

[head-post]

Australian PM admits defeat in referendum on Indigenous Advisory Board

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday he believes he is to blame for the failure of an Indigenous recognition question in a referendum that could now weaken his authority.

On Saturday, more than 60 per cent of Australians voted ‘no’ in a referendum. It was about changing the constitution to recognise the country’s indigenous population and establish an advisory body to advise parliament on indigenous issues. However, in remote areas where indigenous peoples live, the majority voted in favour of the referendum question, unlike in the rest of the country.

Learn more HERE

[shewhotellsstories]

“Sometimes, as in the case of Estelle Reel, the maternalists were more zealous than the state, while in other cases, particularly in Australia, they pushed back against the authorities. However, this was not out of empathy with the Indigenous mothers: while they supported the removal of Indigenous children, white Australian women generally objected to the rhetoric of “breeding the color out” because, argues Jacobs, “they believed it encouraged extramarital and extra racial sex and sanctioned male sexual privilege.” In other words, they built their feminism and empowerment on the backs of colonized women.”

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars

[rjalker]

Bogleech's followers found this post so have decided to fucking block evade and screenshot this post to them and then harass me and accuse me of being the real racist because I'm white, so therefore any time I call out racist bullshit I'm actually the one being racist.

Yes, Bogleech's posts did inspire this post and the following one, but they are not the single only fucking example of this shit I've seen, hence why I made the fucking posts, and have made posts like this in the past -.-

People, white people especially, are constantly fucking shaming people of color for fucking hunting of any kind, including the killing of invasive species, especially, as I fucking mention, feral cats, especially in Australia.

If you fucking think I'm just making this up out of thin fucking air to attack your favorite fucking tumblr user, you're just fucking too far gone.

Yes, I am white, and I'm still going to fucking call out racist shit when I see it. White people constantly fucking shame people of color for fucking killing animals, and lose their fucking shit when people in Australia in particular kill feral cats, because it's just toooo sad and evil and tragic and cruel to kill cats no matter what!!!!

Demanding that people feel sad about killing invasive animals is two fucking steps away from demanding they not kill them at all, and that's not a fucking distance at all for racist fucking white people. Both are fucking racist when employed by white people against indiginous people who are protecting their local fucking environments.

Have you ever seen any fucking forum or comment threads on posts about people fucking shooting cats in Australia??? or anywhere else for that fucking matter?

Just because you don't fucking want to acknowledge that this idea is used to further racism doesn't mean it's not fucking racist.

Stop fucking leaping to defend your favorite popular tumblr user when the post isn't actually fucking about them at all, just because they fucking reminded me of the bullshit in the first place.

"you can cull invasive species but you shouldn't enjoy it" no actually I think people should in fact be allowed to enjoy helping their fucking environment.

People in Australia hunting and shooting cats and being proud of it and making hats out of their fur? Good for fucking them. You don't get to tell people they are not allowed to have fun with killing invasive species that are destroying their native ecosystems. People are in fact allowed to enjoy hunting and it does not in fact make them a bad or cruel person. No, not even if the animal they're hunting is feral cats.

You do not get to demand people feel bad about killing invasive species just because you'd feel bad about doing the same. Especially when the invasive species was something specifically brought over by white colonizers.

Stop fucking shaming people for killing invasive species. Stop demanding people feel bad about killing invasive species. Stop demanding that people who kill invasive species live up to your "tragic but necessary" idea of how this is supposed to work. People do not have to feel sad for the invasive species they kill to be doing good fucking work.

[canadianabroadvery]

Why doesn't the world's oldest living culture attract more tourists?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-07/aboriginal-culture-nt-tourism-kakadu-national-park/10963602