Sovereign Union - First Nations Asserting Sovereignty

Is the federal government prepared to establish a framework to negotiate treaties with First Nations at a federal level? or is PM Albanese saying: No, to such an aspiration?

Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union provides an insight into PM Albanese’s recent abject refusal to discuss a treaty process. [node:read-more:link]

My offering of the Beads and Blankets to King Charles on 20 June 2023 is a serious one The hard question for those promoting the Yes Vote is the extent of limitations that will be placed on this facade of the Voice to Parliament. If this Voice is to have any effect, then it must have broader terms of reference that will address far bigger issues than the assimilation strategies that have been forecast, that being - be white, think white, act white and don't invoke First Nations rights under international law. [node:read-more:link]

What makes this whole thing of leadership and right to speak for Country a modern-day catastrophe for First Nations Peoples in Australia is that the government and their appointed Aboriginal leadership completely ignore these facts. How many times do we have to say, “We are not an homogenous group of people in this country.” We have our language. We have our boundaries that make us different from each to the degree we are individual and diverse Nations. [node:read-more:link]

If First Nations agree to a Voice, which is only advisory, with no power of veto and for which the colonial parliament legislates its structure and composition, international law sees this as acquiescence and a relinquishment of First Nations sovereignty, which has never been ceded and for which so many of our people have died, and continue to assert with the phrase ‘Sovereignty Never Ceded’. - Maintaining our continuing sovereignty is our best protection. [node:read-more:link]