WGAR News: G20 protesters burn Australian flag: Natalie Bochenski, The Age

Newsletter date: 20 November 2014

Last updated: 26 November 2014

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Contents:

* Homepage: Brisbane Blacks - Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy [BASE]: http://brisbaneblacks.com/
* Background: Brisbane Blacks: G20 Brisbane 2014: http://brisbaneblacks.com/g20/
* Audio: Let's Talk: Live Broadcast from G20 Protest HQ at Musgrave Park
* News: Tony Moore, Brisbane Times: Wayne Wharton calls for 'conversation' between black and white Australia
* Audio: Warren Barnsley with Cassie Tim, NIRS: Burning of Australia flags an expression of 'disgust' at Prime Minister
* Video: Natalie Bochenski, The Age: G20 protesters burn Australian flag
* News: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Tony Abbott Says 'Nothing But Bush' In Australia Before White Settlement
* Media Release: Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: Australia is committing genocide on a scale unequalled anywhere in the modern world
* Analysis / Opinion: Australian Greens: PM Abbott wrong again on European settlement
* Analysis / Opinion: Dr Woolombi Waters, The Stringer: Pearson, Langton, Mundine are not our leaders
* Audio: CAAMA News: We Need To Build A Movement Before We Start Talking About Anything Else
* Audio: Warren Barnsley with Cassandra Tim, NIRS: Young people praised for G20 protest leadership
* Audio: Warren Barnsley with Adam Evans, NIRS: First Nations demonstrators praised for protest behaviour
* News Analysis: Mel Barnes, Green Left: Thousands protest G20 Summit in Australia
* Video: Cameron Atfield & Kim Stephens, Brisbane Times: G20 Brisbane: Passionate, but mostly peaceful protests
* Video: Natalie Bochenski, Brisbane Times: Weather takes heat out of G20 protests
* News Analysis: Rachel Olding, The Age: The seven G20 protests you should know about
* Audio Interviews: National Indigenous Radio's 'Weekly News-in-Review' presented by Cassandra Tim
* Background: WGAR News: First Nations response to G20 meeting: Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy, Facebook

- Homepage

Brisbane Blacks - Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy [BASE]
http://brisbaneblacks.com/

- Background

Brisbane Blacks: G20 Brisbane 2014
http://brisbaneblacks.com/g20/
" ... The Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy will be boycotting the G20 Summit, which will be taking place on stolen aboriginal land. We want decolonisation to be recognised as a priority and added to the agenda as a political reality. Decolonisation is a process for all Australians and provides a chance for all who live on this land to build a new society based on Aboriginal culture and values; a society ruled by social need and environmental sustainability, not one of greed and discrimination. A unique society with a definitive system of laws and customs to govern it, based on the world’s oldest living culture. Musgrave Park has been declared a zone for peaceful protest during the G20 Summit. ... "

- Audio

Let's Talk: Live Broadcast from G20 Protest HQ at Musgrave Park
http://www.989fm.com.au/podcasts/lets-talk/live-broadcast-from-g20-prote...
13 Nov 14: "Wayne Wharton, Burri Jerome
Robbie Thorpe & Vivian Malo from 3CR Melbourne
Michael Balderstone from The Hemp Embassy Nimbin"

- News

Brisbane Times: Wayne Wharton calls for 'conversation' between black and white Australia
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/brisbane-g20/wayne-wharton-ca...
16 Nov 14: "It is time black Australia began "a conversation" with white Australia, says indigenous leader Wayne Wharton. "You have the ability to take this to the next step," the spokesman for the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy in Musgrave Park told almost 2000 protesters resting at the site after this weekend's People's March. Mr Wharton said during the 1970s and 1980s Aboriginal people saw the establishment of land rights and self management of their communities." Tony Moore, brisbanetimes.com.au senior reporter

- Audio

NIRS: Burning of Australia flags an expression of 'disgust' at Prime Minister
http://www.nirs.org.au/NEWS/Burning-of-Australia-flags-an-expression-of-...
17 Nov 14: "First Nations protesters say the burning of several Australian flags during demonstrations responding to the G20 summit in Brisbane was justified. ... " Warren Barnsley with Cassie Tim

NIRS - National Indigenous Radio Service Homepage: http://www.nirs.org.au/

NIRS - National Indigenous Radio Service Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/NIRS-National-Indigenous-Radio-Service/354...

- Video

The Age: G20 protesters burn Australian flag
http://www.theage.com.au/queensland/brisbane-g20/g20-protesters-burn-aus...
16 Nov 14: "A group of protesters has burned the Australian flag as part of a G20 demonstration at the Roma Street Parklands. The group of about 50, which gathered in Emma Miller Place in Brisbane, has been enraged by comments from Prime Minister Tony Abbott about Australia's history. ... "He refers to this country as desolate [prior to the arrival of the first fleet]," activist Wayne Wharton said. "He welcomes the world leaders and tells them there was nothing. "So we have to resort to symbolism to show our disgust in your colonial leadership." Natalie Bochenski with Kristian Silva with AAP

- News

New Matilda: Tony Abbott Says 'Nothing But Bush' In Australia Before White Settlement
https://newmatilda.com/2014/11/14/tony-abbott-says-%E2%80%98nothing-bush...
14 Nov 14: "In the presence of British Prime Minister David Cameron, Abbott doubled down on previous remarks about the unsettled nature of Australia before white invasion. Amy McQuire reports. The self-appointed "Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs" Tony Abbott has reiterated the legal fiction of "terra nullius" stating that Australia was "nothing but bush" before British invasion and called pre-colonisation civilisation "extraordinarily basic and raw". ... " Amy McQuire

New Matilda Homepage: https://newmatilda.com/

 

- Media Release

Sovereign Union: Australia is committing genocide on a scale unequalled anywhere in the modern world
http://sovereignunion.mobi/content/australia-commiting-genocide-scale-un...
http://sovereignunion.mobi/pdf/2014/141124-SU-MA-Whitegate%20and%20WA%20...
http://sovereignunion.mobi/tags/media-releases
24 Nov 14: " ... Abbott described Australia prior to the landing of the First Fleet as:
"… nothing but bush … the Marines, and the convicts and the sailors … must have thought they’d come almost to the Moon…. Everything would have seemed so extraordinarily basic and raw…"
This was not a one-off PM 'brain-snap' because once again he denied the importance of the oldest continuing living culture in the world by claiming that Britain began:
"... foreign investment … [in] the then unsettled or, um, scarcely settled, Great South Land…"
along with:
"… the First Fleet was the defining moment in the history of this continent."
These statements are indicative of the constant dismissal of anything Aboriginal in this country. Clearly PM Abbott's total disregard is an absolute insult and a smack in the face for the Recognise campaign which is trying to raise support for a referendum to include Aboriginal people in the racist Constitution, we have never been part of. ... " Ghillar Michael Anderson, Convenor and Joint Spokesperson of Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic

Sovereign Union homepage: http://www.sovereignunion.mobi/

- Analysis / Opinion

Australian Greens: PM Abbott wrong again on European settlement
http://greens.org.au/node/6526
14 Nov 14: "The Australian Greens said today that Tony Abbott continues to send mixed messages about European settlement of Australia. "During today's address to an infrastructure breakfast with UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Tony Abbott has echoed his comments from earlier this year that Australia was 'unsettled' before the British arrived," Senator Rachel Siewert, Australian Greens spokesperson on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues said today. "The Prime Minister's ‘nothing but bush' comments once again ignore the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have been in Australia for many tens of thousands of years, and that British settlement began a process of discrimination and dispossession. ... ""

- Analysis / Opinion

The Stringer: Pearson, Langton, Mundine are not our leaders
http://thestringer.com.au/pearson-langton-mundine-are-not-our-leaders-9078
15 Nov 14: " ... Australia’s so called "Aboriginal leaders" such as Professor Langton, Noel Pearson and Warren Mundine have no followers in our grass root communities. They demonstrate no foresight into the future or any real vision of hope for our communities. Instead they approach the issues with punitive, uncaring politics that only raises their profile in the White community with no consideration to collective responsibility or community obligation within our Black communities. ... " By Dr Woolombi Waters, a Kamilaroi language speaker and writer and is a lecturer at Griffith University. He writes a weekly column for the National Indigenous Times.

Dr Woolombi Waters - The Stringer
http://thestringer.com.au/dr-woolombi-waters-7164
19 Feb 13: "Dr Woolombi Waters is a Kamilaroi Aboriginal man with six children. His PhD "Contemporary Urban Indigenous 'Dreamings': interaction, engagement and creative practice," documents surviving Kamilaroi epistemologies essential to cultural maintenance and trans-generational pedagogy. ... My writing engineers a hypothetical cultural and creative third space in reinventing the Indigenous position beyond its current binary - in wanting to picture events over time and space around me, in returning to the past and seeing my future, to remember the sound of ceremony before the impending silence broken by colonisation."

- Audio

Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association: CAAMA News: We Need To Build A Movement Before We Start Talking About Anything Else
http://caama.com.au/we-need-to-build-a-movement-before-we-start-talking-...
18 Nov 14: "We are Aboriginal people not Australian. That’s the thing we have to ask ourselves are we Aboriginal people or not!" - Boe Spearim
"Boe Spearim from the Brisbane Blacks spoke out about what the group want.Speaking to CAAMA News Mr. Spearim asks why the government isn’t doing anything to help Aboriginal people. "Why are our people still incarcerated?" He says "Why do our young people have the highest suicide rate in the world? And why are police still killing our people wholesale?" Mr. Spearim urges the younger generation to stand up for their rights."

- Audio

NIRS: Young people praised for G20 protest leadership
http://www.nirs.org.au/NEWS/Young-people-praised-for-G20-protest-leadership
17 Nov 14: "A Birri-Gubba elder has paid tribute to First Nations young people for leading 'successful' protests in response the G20 global leaders' summit in Brisbane." Warren Barnsley with Cassandra Tim

- Audio

NIRS: First Nations demonstrators praised for protest behaviour
http://www.nirs.org.au/NEWS/First-Nations-demonstrators-praised-for-prot...
17 Nov 14: "Protesters involved in the First Nations response to the G20 have been praised for their behaviour leading up to and during the global leaders' event, which wrapped up yesterday." Warren Barnsley with Adam Evans

- News Analysis

Green Left: Thousands protest G20 Summit in Australia
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57787
15 Nov 14: "About 2000 people gathered at Roma St Forum in Brisbane for the Peoples' March against the G20 Summit on November 15. Aboriginal activists kicked off the speeches. Callum Clay Dixon said 'What is Australia? It is a colonial state based on genocide and dispossession." ... The Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy organised a week of events to coincide with the official summit. They wanted to highlight the issues still facing Aboriginal people under the slogan of “Decolonisation before profit” as well as presenting Aboriginal solutions to these problems. ... " By Mel Barnes, Brisbane

Mel Barnes - Green Left Weekly
https://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/967
"Mel Barnes lives in Wollongong and is a co-editor of Green Left Weekly. She has been an activist for environmental and social justice issues since 2003, and is a member of Socialist Alliance."

- Video

Brisbane Times: G20 Brisbane: Passionate, but mostly peaceful protests
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/brisbane-g20/g20-brisbane-pas...
15 Nov 14: "As the world's leaders gathered in air-conditioned comfort, about 2000 people braved the Brisbane heat to march from Roma Street to South Brisbane in the biggest show of G20 resistance so far ... While Aboriginal rights took centre stage at Roma Street for a second day running, there was barely a cause not covered. ... "We walked here as many, but we came here as one," Brisbane Sovereign Embassy leader Wayne Wharton said as the march concluded." Cameron Atfield and Kim Stephens

- Video

Brisbane Times: Weather takes heat out of G20 protests
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/brisbane-g20/weather-takes-he...
16 Nov 14: "G20 protesters burn Australian flag. Indigenous protesters set fire to the Australian flag at Roma Street Parklands on Sunday. ... The most dramatic event was the burning of six Australian flags by the Brisbane Sovereign Embassy on Sunday, during their third rally in three days. ... They also set fire to effigies of prominent indigenous campaigners Noel Pearson and Warren Mundine, describing them as "sell outs". Premier Campbell Newman said the G20 showed peaceful protest worked, as the embassy's message had been picked up by the media. ... " Natalie Bochenski

- News Analysis

The Age: The seven G20 protests you should know about
http://www.theage.com.au/queensland/brisbane-g20/the-seven-g20-protests-...
14 Nov 14: "4. BRISBANE ABORIGINAL SOVEREIGN EMBASSY
Aboriginal activists have been rallying for a week leading up to the G20 Summit with the aim of highlighting decolonisation, an issue that will not be on the agenda when the leaders meet. "We want people around the world to know that we are fighting the same struggles as a lot of disposed indigenous people," said Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy organiser Callum Clayton-Dixon, a Nganyaywana man. He said police had been very co-operative in the lead-up to the summit, "but whether that filters down to the 6000 officers will be interesting". ... " Rachel Olding, a Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald

- Audio Interviews

National Indigenous Radio's 'Weekly News-in-Review'
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gaf218befhut4os/Weekly%20News%20in%20Review%20...
13 Nov 14: "National Indigenous Radio's Weekly News-in-Review takes an in-depth look at the issues affecting First Nations communities around Australia. This week's episode is presented by Cassandra Tim.
This week: Wayne Wharton, Robbie Thorpe, Karen Fusi and Pekeri Ruska speaking from Musgrave Park in Brisbane about G20 protests; ...
Producers: Merinda Ninyette, Cassandra Tim and Warren Barnsley"

NIRS - National Indigenous Radio Service Homepage: http://www.nirs.org.au/

NIRS - National Indigenous Radio Service Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/NIRS-National-Indigenous-Radio-Service/354...

- Background

WGAR News: First Nations response to G20 meeting: Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy, Facebook
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/11/13/wgar-news-first-nations-response-to-...
14 Nov 14: "Contents:
* 8-16 Nov 14 Events: Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy G20 Program
* 8-16 Nov 14 Events: Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy, Facebook: First Nations response to G20 meeting
* Event Analysis: Brisbane Blacks: G20
* 11-16 Nov 14 Events: kimk, Indymedia Australia: Community groups set to take the gloss off the G20 in Brisbane
* News: Marissa Calligeros, Brisbane Times: First road closes for G20 Brisbane protest march
* News: Marissa Calligeros, Brisbane Times: First G20 protesters take to Brisbane streets
* News: Athena Yenko, International Business Times: G20 News Roundup: PM Abbott Sits At The Children’s Table, Sonic Cannons In Place, Stop Stealing Our Children March Starts
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies"

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