Mostly in the way we're made up entirely of young Aboriginal people. River Boy, Carly Baque, Scheherazade Bloul, Cait Kelly, Priya Kunjan and Rosie Isaac. ". patricia bouma | 24 January 2014, Agreed. We call ourselves Brotherboys. Share. In fact, just this week The Age carried a story of a plan to erect a monument to the first two people executed in Victoria, two aboriginal men who were fighting for their right to retain their land and killed whites in the process. And I heard you just moved to Melbourne from Brisbane, particularly to protest? The caveat that is omitted is: "except for indigenous Australians deployed on operations to defend their homeland against a colonial invader". They've been organising the recent Black Lives Matter and Aboriginal Deaths in Custody protests in Australia. and the question of how to #AbolishAustraliaDay if, after all, Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR), BIRRARANGA (Melbourne) Invasion Day 2019 Protest, Fitzroy Legal Service: policing and surveillance, A’isyiyah: Undocumented, The Black Block: Lidia Thorpe, Radio Skid Row, Marisol Salinas: Mapuche resistance, Poems by Eileen Chong, Facial recognition and regulating biometrics, Archer Magazine digital launch and fundraiser, Panda Wong: Whispers from Home, Cashless debit card expansion, Frontline workers' perspectives, First Nation music, Women on the Line: Social-mixing, Poetry: Rebecca Jessen, Arrest of Moroccan journalist Imad Stitou, Renters and Housing Union. If the AWM persists is refusing to "commemorate the sacrifice" of these Australians then one can only assume that they are not considered to be Australian. Tell me about the experience. Marist Family Peace and Justice Group | 28 July 2015, I am a mature age University student and my research on Aboriginal leadership at Newcastle University I like you information on this subject and I will be using some of it in my research paper
Copyright © The Unshackled. 21 Smith Street Fitzroy Melbourne VICTORIA AUSTRALIA 3065 The foundations of WAR laid out within this manifesto are the culmination of meetings over the past six months. 7:45am We chat with Meriki Onus, Gunditjmara and Gunnai woman and co-founder of the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR), about 7 Days of Resistance, creativity and centring Indigenous sovereignty in abolition work. Tristan Da Cunha Population 2020, That said, the history of Western society in Australia has, at its very centre, the undeniable fact of the dispossession of the Indigenous nations of their lands, their powers, and their natural rights by those Westerners. Food and health are high on our agenda, but we're also helping our own communities to learn their languages, their dances, the traditions. It went from change the date to abolish the date, now it is abolish Australia altogether. Uncle Dean (Ednason) is a very personal role model as he is an elder Brotherboy. Judy Panucci | 10 March 2014, For those of you inclined, people are organising around this issue... Indigenous and non Indigenous together. PO Box 1277 Collingwood Melbourne VIC AUSTRALIA 3066, tel. Katina Vaselopulos | 22 January 2014, The Director of the Australian War Memorial has said that the Memorial is not the place to commemorate internal colonial conflict because it is concerned with the "story of Australians deployed in war overseas on behalf of Australia". A Tasman News Media Venture. 3CR 855 AM www.3cr.org.au 7:10am We listen to an interview with Nayuka Gorrie, Kurnai/Gunai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta freelance writer, about transformative justice, decolonisation and abolishing 'Australia Day' (first aired on the Transformative Justice Show, part of Satellite Skies). Date: A range of words, including the word ‘war’, come into play. Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (W.A.R.) Yet there are no monuments to any of this trio while B&W are rembered in sculpture a hundred times over. email 3cr | login. Something I'm wondering is how WAR is different from other activist groups. Who are your protest heroes? ?The truth would give them a chance to be proud of their achievements, and give men their story of bravery and honour. Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance campaigns are lead by our core values: - Decolonisation of our minds, bodies and lands. The expedition was a failure, though Phillip's order presaged countless such wanton reprisals against Australia's Indigenous people for the next 140 years. 92 The US Presidential Apocalypse. "Lest We Forget the Frontier Wars" Anzac Day March By signing up to the VICE newsletter you agree to receive electronic communications from VICE that may sometimes include advertisements or sponsored content. 2, pp. track, Ancestors, Jan 26th and the question of how to #AbolishAustraliaDay if, after all, Australia Does Not Exist. However, there was a lot of conflict in the "building" of this Commonwealth which needs to be acknowledged and the tragic parts grieved over, and as appropriate repented and penanced for. He led the resistance around Bathurst for many years, gathering together the Wiradjuri tribes. talkback: 03 9419 0155 So what would you say to Prime Minister Tony Abbott today? The indigenous Australians who did this in defence of their families, have my unreserved respect. Ive chosen and donated to an organisation for Indigenous Australians who are putting on these events and many more like them:https://www.facebook.com/events/2523873747926996/, https://www.facebook.com/events/648549595874359/Please consider taking the time to donate even a dollar, before or after your next post. The statement, which began with the words "F--- … Historians generally regard the Frontier Wars to have ended in 1928 with the killing of a large number of Warlpiri people (officially 30) by a police punitive party at Coniston, NT, in response to the death of a white man. Amina Daligand
$670 raised of $1,000 goal. Can you tell me why you chose it? Strathfield Troy Clancy, my dad. Tim Wilms is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of theunshackled.net, he is the Host of the WilmsFront live internet show, and co-host of The Uncuckables and Trans Tasman Talk shows. Get out! Now the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance have doubled down on Onus-Williams’ remarks with a vile social media post which in summary says f**k everything about Australia. How do you feel when you see that flag? What are the values that unite us? The frontier conflict cannot be ignored although I suggest the use of "massacre" does not help the debate. Some rights reserved. A silver lining of sorts...While many of my friends have shared thoughts and sentiments across their social media channels, i personally feel that while certainly "spreading the word," it can also be a somewhat stagnant approach to actually solving anything. The saga is replete with episodes of foolishness and callousness, but the heroes who stand out are aboriginal people, notably "Mr Shirt", "Dick" and the woman Carrawaw who was Australia's own Good Samaritan if ever we had one. They lived through a period when the punitive actions against indigenous "natives" described by Paul Newbury were the unpleasant by product of British settlement in the various colonies making up what is now Australia. Many Europeans were ruined through despair and bankruptcy following Aboriginal raids on crops, huts and livestock. In response, Phillip ordered a punitive expedition to bring back any six Bidgigal or their heads. I can't understand his obsession with the Queen and the monarch. Jill Finnane | 23 January 2014, Thx Paul. Until the AWM decides to recognise that Aboriginals killed in all wars are indeed Australians and worthy of commemoration, Canberrans can visit the small unofficial memorial to Aboriginal Defence Force soldiers. Lynne Z | 21 January 2014, The term "war" is too emotional and, dare I say it "political" for describing this period of Australian history. My grandmother alerted me to the amazing work that my co-founders were doing up north, primarily in Queensland. During this period there were violent confrontations and massacres across the continent. According to the historian Henry Reynolds, some 22,000 Australian Aboriginal people and 2000 whites are recorded to have died in war on Australian soil. This includes the Torres Strait Regiment. It's worked out well. Their #Genocidal20 protests last year saw 5,000 people marching through the streets of Brisbane before burning half a dozen Australian flags. It is in the bush, half hidden, "out the back" of the AWM, some 300 metres up Mt Ainslie. As reported by Catherine Armitage in the Sydney Morning Herald, Flannery told a forum of the National Australia Day Council that in any other war, Australia's Aborigines 'would have been awarded the Victoria Cross' but at the AWM in Canberra, they are not even acknowledged. Professor Tim Flannery of Macquarie University has expressed his 'sense of outrage' that the Australian War Memorial (AWM) refuses to honour Aboriginal warriors who fought and died defending their lands and their people against white invader settlers in the Frontier Wars of 1788–1928. X, People have raised more money on GoFundMe than anywhere else. ‘War’ is a risky and dangerous word to use alone when trying to describe the full scale of the encounter between the Europeans and the Indigenous nations of Australia. I don't think it's helpful, but I'm not interested in naming names because we share a solidarity as Aboriginal Australians. www.maristfamily.com.au This is indeed a sacred place and it is a place where one can contemplate the thousands who died in the only land war fought on Australian soil. Peter Johnstone | 21 January 2014, The silence over the treatment of aboriginals is congruent with our debunked doctrine of "Terra Nullius". Any argument that the Australian Aboriginals who fought in this war were not members of the Defence Force and therefore their sacrifice should not be recognised is truly offensive. +61 3 9417 4472 Time to put our money where our posts are.The horrible circumstances in the US have been a protagonist for many of us giving proper consideration to the existent realities on our own doorstep.
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