Finding a new voice: Michael Mansell & Geoff Clarke
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 A...
4m Oct 12, 2012
4m
People on Country, Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures
"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 contributor...
9m Oct 12, 2012
9m
Sovereignty movement calls for Australia to be denied UNSC seat
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 t...
4m Oct 09, 2012
4m
Brisbane Sovereign Tent Embassy burns to the ground
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
2m Oct 02, 2012
2m
Worimi man continues hunt for Aboriginal Boer War trackers
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 Canberr...
4m Sep 27, 2012
4m
50 Aboriginal trackers left behind after the Boer War - ABC PM Audio
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-e...
5m Sep 27, 2012
5m
Goomeroi Sovereign Embassy Burned Down
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
1m Sep 25, 2012
1m
First Nations deaths in custody: has anything changed?
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...
6m Sep 24, 2012
6m
NT Police culture of aggression toward First Nations people
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
4m Sep 20, 2012
4m
Emotional and angry scenes outside the Alice Springs Courthouse
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
2m Sep 18, 2012
2m
Assange gets Aboriginal passport
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 ...
1m Sep 17, 2012
1m
FMG admits destroying sacred sites at Solomon Hub
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 wer...
3m Sep 12, 2012
3m
Kings Cross - Police shooting at youths - 2
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
4m Sep 02, 2012
4m
Kings Cross - Police shooting at youths - 1
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
4m Sep 02, 2012
4m
I worked for shirt, hat, boots
I worked for shirt, hat, boots: stockman Geoffery Fletcher.An archived ABC Kimberley 'Stolen Wages' Interview
7m Sep 01, 2012
7m
Michael Mansell on Constitutional Reform
Michael Mansell on Constitutional Reform. From CAAMA News with Paul Wiles.
1m Aug 31, 2012
1m
- 1966 Gurindji 'walk-off'
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 bei...
1m Aug 30, 2012
1m
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks on forced relocation
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 homelan...
4m Aug 25, 2012
4m
Robbie Thorpe - Treaty Speech
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
15m Aug 22, 2012
15m
"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. Australia is a racist society and we cannot reconcile without the truth
2m Aug 16, 2012
2m
"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. If we didn't collect enough copper wire and bottles to sell, we starved
4m Aug 16, 2012
4m
"Horrified about Australia's deep dark secret"
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
5m Aug 16, 2012
5m
Palm Island community compensation stipulation
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 Rad...
1m Aug 13, 2012
1m
The Redfern Address - Paul Keating
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.
17m Aug 04, 2012
17m
Aboriginal Flag T-Shirt - CAAMA News
CAAMA News - Paul Wyles
1m Aug 03, 2012
1m
Ray Jackson ISJA - ASIO must be held accountable SBS News
Ray Jackson ISJA - ASIO must be held accountable SBS News
3m Aug 03, 2012
3m
Barbara Shaw - On the 5-year NT Intervention anniversary
On Thursday the 21st June 2012 at Fitzroy in Victoria, Gary Foley introduces Barbara Shaw, descendant of the Kaytetye, Arrernte, Warlpiri and Warumungu people, from Mount Nancy Town Camp, now a prescribed area under the NT Intervention "Stronger Futures" legislation.
30m Aug 01, 2012
30m
Damian Hooper's statement - comments by Prof. Waterhouse
Indigenous Australian boxer, Damian Hooper was forced to apologise after wearing a t-shirt featuring the Aboriginal flag into his first round bout, in lieu of his official uniform. Professor Richard Waterhouse, an Emeritus Professor in History and an Authority on Race in Sport spoke with Richard Glover on ABC's 702 Drive program.
11m Jul 31, 2012
11m
Mr Clarke's death - Tiga Bayles' Interview with daughter Kylie Hampton +
Tiga Bayles fom 989fm Brisbane interviewed Kylie Hamilton, the daughter of Mr Clarke and Bruce Campbell from Western Australia's Deaths in Custody Watch Committee on 24 July 2012
30m Jul 30, 2012
30m
Michael Anderson Interview following Moree Gathering
Michael Anderson Interview following Moree Sovereign Gathering. The gathering took place on 28th and 29th July, 2012.
5m Jul 30, 2012
5m
Michael Anderson Interviewed by Sue Lee 3CR Melbourne
Michael Anderson Interviewed by Sue Lee 3CR Melbourne - Interview shortly after the 40th Tent Embassy in 2012, where the First Nations people of Australia re-asserted their sovereignty
11m Jul 29, 2012
11m
Ocuupy London Speech by Michael Anderson - December 2011
Michael Anderson's speech at 'Occupy London' in December 2011 'We said it aloud all the time "Sovereignty Never Ceded" and now we can reveal that our sovereignty is real, both as a matter of fact and law. The challenge that is now before us as Peoples is how to put it all into practice. We assert our sovereignty as a right recognised in English law is the political and legal confrontation tha...
14m Jul 29, 2012
14m
Litigating Sovereignty - Roy 'Dootch' Kennedy
Litigating Sovereignty - Roy 'Dootch' Kennedy at the 2012 Sovereignty Symposium - Wollongong, New South Wales, May 2012
30m Jul 28, 2012
30m
Litigating Sovereignty - Fred Hooper 4
Litigating Sovereignty - Fred Hooper 4 at the 2012 Sovereignty Symposium - Wollongong, New South Wales, May 2012
2m Jul 28, 2012
2m
Litigating Sovereignty - Fred Hooper 3
Litigating Sovereignty - Fred Hooper 3 at the 2012 Sovereignty Symposium - Wollongong, New South Wales, May 2012
2m Jul 28, 2012
2m
Litigating Sovereignty - Fred Hooper 2
Litigating Sovereignty - Fred Hooper 2 at the 2012 Sovereignty Symposium - Wollongong, New South Wales, May 2012
3m Jul 28, 2012
3m
Litigating Sovereignty - Fred Hooper 1
Litigating Sovereignty - Fred Hooper 1 at the 2012 Sovereignty Symposium - Wollongong, New South Wales, May 2012
3m Jul 28, 2012
3m
Litigating Sovereignty, Virginia Marshall - Solicitor
Litigating Sovereignty, Virginia Marshall - Solicitor at the 2012 Sovereignty Symposium - Wollongong, New South Wales, May 2012
30m Jul 28, 2012
30m
Juristiction Prudence & International Law - M Anderson
Juristiction Prudence & International Law - M Anderson - at the 2012 Sovereignty Symposium - Wollongong, New South Wales, May 2012
7m Jul 28, 2012
7m
Litigating Sovereignty Symposium - Michael Anderson
Litigating Sovereignty - Michael Anderson at the 2012 Sovereignty Symposium - Wollongong, New South Wales, May 2012
14m Jul 28, 2012
14m
Litigating Sovereignty - Dr Alessandro Pelizzon
Litigating Sovereignty - Dr Alessandro Pelizzon at the 2012 Sovereignty Symposium - Wollongong, New South Wales, May 2012
3m Jul 28, 2012
3m
Litigating Sovereignty - Professor Nan Seuffert
Litigating Sovereignty - Professor Nan Seuffert at the 2012 Sovereignty Symposium - Wollongong, New South Wales, May 2012
3m Jul 28, 2012
3m
Litigating Sovereignty Welcome - Aunty Barb Nicholson
Litigating Sovereignty Welcome - Aunty Barb Nicholson at the 2012 Sovereignty Symposium - Wollongong, New South Wales, May 2012
8m Jul 28, 2012
8m
First Nations Sovereignty - Dr Alessandro Pelizzon 'CAAMA News'
First Nations Sovereignty - Dr Alessandro Pelizzon Interview - CAAMA News 29/5/12
2m Jul 28, 2012
2m
Foundation of 'Sovereign Union' - CAAMA News Report
Forming the Interim National Unity Government - CAAMA News Report
1m Jul 28, 2012
1m
Wayne 'Coco' Wharton - Constitution Reform 'Furphy'
"Constitutional reform is a furphy - This is real reform" - Wayne 'Coco' Wharton
1m Jul 27, 2012
1m
Wayne 'Coco' Wharton - Let the Embassies Grow
"We've got to be able to grow - let the Embassies grow all around the country." - Wayne 'Coco' Wharton
3m Jul 27, 2012
3m
Wayne 'Coco' Wharton - We need a game plan
"We need a game plan" - Wayne 'Coco' Wharton (includes background on ACTU support)
3m Jul 27, 2012
3m
Wayne 'Coco' Wharton - 'We can run the country'
"We ran the country once and we can run the country again" - Wayne 'Coco' Wharton, Sovereign Union Foundation 2012
5m Jul 27, 2012
5m
Wayne 'Coco' Wharton - A Story of Sovereignty"
Wayne 'Coco' Wharton introduction - "We bring a story of Sovereignty"
3m Jul 27, 2012
3m