>From: "Allison Hoolihan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>PRESS CALL PRESS CALL PRESS CALL
>11.00AM
>29 October 1999
>Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Lawns Opposite Old Parliament House, CANBERRA
>Phone/Fax: (02) 62950493 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website:
>www.aboriginaltentembassy.com.au
>
>ABORIGINAL TENT EMBASSY SAYS REFERENDUM IS A FARCE
>SAY YES TO ABORIGINAL SOVEREIGNTY SAY NO TO THE COLONY CON
>
>White Australia wants a Republic. White Australia is aiming to vote away
>the legal fiction which is the Sovereignty of the British Crown. They will
>replace it with another legal fiction the Sovereignty of the Australian
>Republic.
>
>>From 1788 the first settlers and representatives of the British monarchy
>stole our land and waged war on us. They were merely trespassers. No
>reparations, no compensation, no agreement has ever been made to legalise
>the situation. Their claim to ownership by means of the power created by
>the British Crown to own what it chooses is a legal fiction, acknowledged
>only by the White Australian domestic Courts. When the High Court of
>Australia gives a judgment upon Aboriginal Ownership the Court must first
>endorse its own status; that is
>its power to pass judgment at all. In affirming that status the court has
>to depend on the original Australian fiction; "the British Crown gave us
>ownership and power." As long as this state of affairs exists, Aboriginal
>People will continue to be robbed, cheated and left landless. Whether the
>Head of State is a Queen or a President, British or Australian. Worse, it
>will tell the lie that the issue of Aboriginal Sovereignty has been
>resolved.
>
>For over 200 years the first lie of the Crown's ownership of the Australian
>Continent left Aboriginal People cheated, robbed and landless and the
>object of systematic attempted genocide and ethnocide. Aboriginal People
>will continue to be left out of the picture, marginalised and even once
>again invisible. The transfer of a known illegal title to another party
>doesn't make that title legal. It compounds the crime of theft. The true
>legal position for Aboriginal People on the Australian Continent is defined
>by the principles of the Western Sahara case decided by the International
>Court of Justice and also defined in International Instruments. If we, the
>Aboriginal People could get our case to the International Court we could
>expect Justice and a complete change in both our spiritual and material
>positions.
>
>The Australian government thus far, but not forever has prevented our
>access to the International Court. We will attack White Australia in all
>the International, even domestic Courts available to us. Let us approach
>every International Tribunal possible, showing that White Australia is
>cynically demonstrating its true position; that it can without any pretense
>of legal fiction simply take our land.
>
>The Aboriginal Tent Embassy says we will win.
>
>PREAMBLE NO We were left out in 1788
>REPUBLIC NO and in 1901. Will we be
>ABORIGINAL SOVEREIGNTY YES left out again in 2001?
>
>
>
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