#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

[ultravioletrayz]

i just wanna go on a little invasion day rant because i'm high rn and bored on the public holiday lol.

obviously i'm all for changing the date to honour the fact that this nation is stolen land and has been built on the neglected and abused backs of our beautiful indigenous people. Fuck the colony and fuck Peter Dutton.

but outside of that, Australia day is fucking stupid in general. "every country has a day" yeah and jan 26 is a stupid day. it is not a celebration of australia, it is a celebration of Britain and a bunch of dumbass boats. other nations' days are in honour of independent, culturally significant empowerment within a country's developmental history. ours is not a true representation of australia's initial development into a rich nation.

with that being said, i propose that the date of our country's national holiday be changed to july 9; the date the australian constitution was signed and we officially became a federation rather than a regionally divided, brit-ruled colonial prison island.

it celebrates our more formal, legislative beginning as a nation 'independent' of Britain and marked a more appropriate and realised encapsulation of australian views and policies. and, it allows jan 26 to be observed by indigenous people as the tragedy it really was.

idk, that's what i think and its just my opinion... but my opinion is correct lmao

a big fuck you to anyone that celebrated yesterday, and my heart goes out to all the aboriginal people mourning and struggling during this time <3

[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

[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?

[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

[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

[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.

[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