WHERE TO FROM HERE? Decolonisation & Sovereignty ... MEDIA FILES

21 March 2022

‘WHERE TO FROM HERE? Decolonisation and the Sovereign inherent right to self-determination’ insightful conference videos (long form) charting a path towards the Elimination of Racial Discrimination against First Nations Peoples.

In recognition of International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we are releasing the long form video record of the conference of ‘WHERE TO FROM HERE? Decolonisation and the Sovereign inherent right to self-determination’, which was held on the 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Embassy, 27 January 2022, at the Albert Hall, Canberra.

The Keynote speech is by Ghillar, Michael Anderson, addressing the topic:

‘WHERE TO FROM HERE? Decolonisation and the Sovereign inherent right to self-determination’. Using a powerpoint presentation, he skilfully presents the legal basis for the assertion of First Nations sovereignty and fact that the Australian Government, ruling in right of the British Crown, is an occupying power. Ghillar outlines the ongoing processes for the rebuilding of First Nations and the imperative to re-establish good governance Country at the grassroots, “…so that we can lead our Peoples to be self-determining; to take ownership of our Cultural norms; lands; waters; natural resources and biodiversity once again.” He also demonstrates the high authority of celestial Law, the Law of the land.

Prof Gary Lilienthal follows with an analysis of how the ‘Four Master Tropes and Hegemony’ are used to manipulate the thinking in the population under hegemonic authority.

The third presenter is Elisa Choy, Managing Director of Maven Data who gave a current big data analysis around the question: Do Australians care about First Nations Peoples?

In the afternoon probing questions were answered with lively discussion concerning the next phase of the Sovereignty Movement on the 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Embassy. Prof Gary Lilienthal affirmed the risks of the trickery around the current ‘treaty’ processes, since treaties can only be negotiated with the British Crown. He said,

“First, of all, you don’t do a Treaty with somebody’s agent. You would not do a Treaty with a State government in this system. They are only an agent of the Federal Government, which is an agent of the Crown. You either do a Treaty with the Crown that has enforceable provisions or you don’t do a Treaty.

Secondly, you don’t just ‘do a Treaty’ with them because they are completely untrustworthy and have hundreds of years of unequal treaties ….”

WHERE TO FROM HERE? was well attended, including Elders and diplomats from the Embassies of Switzerland, Russian Federation, Lithuania, Venezuela and Ecuador.

The comprehensive video record of the conference is in a long form of six parts:

The New Way Summits that we started in 2010 were to alert our Peoples to the fact that we had to take a new approach in achieving our rights as First Nations Peoples. The Aboriginal Embassy had two significant signs in 1972: ‘Land Rights Now’ and the other ‘Sovereignty Never Ceded’.

The New Way Summits focused on what ‘Sovereignty Never Ceded’ means to First Nations Peoples in Australia?

Over the last 30 years I have concentrated on examining and defining sovereignty and the second part was how did the British gain title to the land? I have determined through legal argument that Native Title is a façade which attempts to legalise the theft of our land, waters and natural resources & biodiversity. The Native Title processes are managed under the Native Title Acts 1993 as amended which are plagued with double-speak, cleverly designed to steal that which is ours and we must always remember that it was a white man who wrote the Act. The elected white parliamentarians appoint the judges to rule over these ill-founded and illegal Acts. They just keep doing the wrong thing by ‘wresting the law unto themselves’.

The sovereignty question is very clear. First Nations Peoples’ Law comes from the celestial Law as given to us by the Creators and is established by the British credo that is around the world First in time, first in law and we have NEVER abandoned any of our lands, before British invasion or after. It’s just the fences that keep us out of our Country which are policed by their military police.

Our title is written in the land itself and this is why they allow mining companies to destroy our sacred sites, deface our rock art and destroy the etchings that are throughout our lands. By cutting down the carved trees, dendroglyphs, in the eastern states they are deliberately destroying our ritual statutes. All of these icons are our ritual statutes, which are the evidentiary proof of our title to our Country though our own Law. The customary practices of respecting each other’s Country and boundaries establish many customary practices which underlie the common law of the land, which we must observe. To be disrespectful of others’ language, sites, Stories is the greatest offence that can be done to any First Nations Peoples.

So the New Way for our Peoples is that the authorities have heard all our complaints through demonstrations. They can all hear our anger and frustration at being dispossessed and subjugated to foreign oppressive laws. The time has come now where we must change the way we do business by going back to Country defining our boundaries and developing governance so that we can lead our Peoples to be self-determining; to take ownership of our Cultural norms; lands; waters; natural resources and biodiversity once again.

The ground-breaking conference WHERE TO FROM HERE? provides deep insights and plenty of food for thought.

Contact: Ghillar Michael Anderson
Convenor of the Sovereign Union,
Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic
Contact Details here