Newsletter date: 30 August 2013
Contents:
* Euahlayi Nation Media Release: Euahlayi Nation declares independence and asserts pre-existing and continuing Statehood
* YouTube: Euahlayi Nation declares independence - NITV News - Sovereign Embassy
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* ABC Radio National - Breakfast: Australia's 'Sugar Slaves' remembered
* YouTube: Qld marks 150th anniversary of blackbirding NITV News - Sovereign Embassy
* SBS Radio News: South Sea Islanders mark sugar 'slave' days
* SBS Radio News: University offers Wiradjuri language course
* EUAHLAYI NATION MEDIA RELEASE: EUAHLAYI NATION DECLARES INDEPENDENCE AND ASSERTS PRE-EXISTING AND CONTINUING STATEHOOD
- Media Release
Euahlayi Nation declares independence and asserts pre-existing and continuing Statehood
Sovereign Union: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/euahlayi-nation-declares-independence...
Sovereign Union: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/pdf/2013/Euahlayi-Nation-Press-Releas...
12 Aug 13: "Euahlayi Nation Media Release
Goodooga, Euahlayi Nation, in upper western region of NSW
Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union and now Convenor of the Provisional Euahlayi Peoples Executive Council said today:
"On 3 August 2013 in Dirranbandi, Queensland, a meeting of key Euahlayi family members and Elders concluded that a letter be forwarded to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, informing her that the People of the Euahlayi have asserted their pre-existing and continuing Statehood."
This decision follows on from previous correspondence with Buckingham Palace. On 24 July 2010 I wrote under my natural and given Euahlayi name, Ghillar, to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II asking the following questions:
a. Can you provide us with the documents, where war was declared against the Peoples of the Euahlayi Nation or where
b. The Peoples of the Euahlayi voluntarily ceded their sovereignty to Great Britain. ...
Contact: Ghillar, Michael Anderson ...
Convenor Euahlayi Nation Executive Council and Sovereign Union "
* YOUTUBE: EUAHLAYI NATION DECLARES INDEPENDENCE - NITV NEWS - SOVEREIGN EMBASSY
- Video
YouTube: Euahlayi Nation declares independence - NITV News - Sovereign Embassy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY1pG4eCerg
14 Aug 13: "The Euahlayi Nation has declared independence from the Commonwealth. The Nation is based around the northern New South Wales town of Goodooga. They say they've made the move based on evidence from the Commonwealth proving they never ceded their sovereignty. They're the second group in northern New South Wales to have declared independence in the past three months. Euahlayi statesman, Michael Anderson says they are now faced with asserting their statehood and building a state from the ground up."
* BACKGROUND TO THE ABORIGINAL SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT:
Last updated: 23 August 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-the-aboriginal-sovereig...
* ABC RADIO NATIONAL - BREAKFAST: AUSTRALIA'S 'SUGAR SLAVES' REMEMBERED
- Audio
ABC Radio National - Breakfast: Australia's 'Sugar Slaves' remembered
Presented by Fran Kelly; Reporter Cathy Van Extel
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/anniversary-recal...
14 Aug 13: "The first boatload of South Sea Islanders arrived in Brisbane's Moreton Bay 150 years ago today. They were brought to Australia as cheap farm labour and while some came willingly, others were 'blackbirded'. Today the anniversary of the first boat arrival will be marked with a re-enactment, as Cathy Van Extel writes. ...
Guests:
* Nasuven Enares, Reenactment Organiser
* Jacinta Batalibasi, Secretary, Australian South Sea Islander Secretariat
* Edwina Lingwoodock, Chair, Australian South Sea Islander Secretariat
* Clive Moore, Professor, Pacific and Australian History, University of Queensland "
* YOUTUBE: QLD MARKS 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF BLACKBIRDING NITV NEWS - SOVEREIGN EMBASSY
- Video
YouTube: Qld marks 150th anniversary of blackbirding NITV News - Sovereign Embassy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RTxRw6e1jg&feature=c4-overview&list=UUok...
14 Aug 13: "The South Sea Islander community in Brisbane has marked the 150th anniversary of blackbirding. Over four decades, more than 60,000 Islanders were tricked or forced into becoming slave labourers in Queensland."
* SBS RADIO NEWS: SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS MARK SUGAR 'SLAVE' DAYS
- Audio
SBS Radio News: South Sea Islanders mark sugar 'slave' days
By Stefan Armbruster
http://www.sbs.com.au/podcasts/Podcasts/radionews/episode/283357/South-S...
16 Aug 13: "Vanuatu is calling for an apology over the practice known as 'blackbirding', when Pacific Islanders were used as labourers in Queensland. ... Claims of the Queensland government stealing South Sea Islander wages and calls for an apology are being made on the 150th anniversary of the first labourers arriving in Queensland. Descendants of the tens-of-thousands of workers marking the notorious episode in Australian history with events across Queensland. The process known as "blackbirding" saw islanders sometimes forcibly taken to work in the agricultural industry in what is often described as a slave trade."
* SBS RADIO NEWS: UNIVERSITY OFFERS WIRADJURI LANGUAGE COURSE
- Audio Interview
SBS Radio News: University offers Wiradjuri language course
By Murray Silby
http://www.sbs.com.au/podcasts/Podcasts/radionews/episode/284515/Univers...
22 Aug 13: "Charles Sturt University says it hopes a new graduate certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage will help preserve the language indigenous to New South Wales. ... The Wiradjuri are the Indigenous people of a vast proportion of New South Wales and their culture and language was greatly impacted by European settlement. Foundation chair of Indigenous Studies at Charles Sturt University Professor Jeannie Herbert says the new course is designed to help reverse at least some of that damage. But she's told Murray Silby it's been a long process getting the course in place."
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