Celebrate

• This week at Parliament House during Barunga Festival, four NT Land Council representatives presented Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with the Barunga Declaration.
• Signed by the four NT Land Council representatives, the declaration calls on Australians to vote “yes” in the upcoming referendum for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
• NT Land Council representatives Dr Samuel Bush-Blanasi (Northern Land Council), Matthew Palmer (Central Land Council), Gibson Farmer Illortaminni (Tiwi Land Council) and Thomas Amagula (Anindilyakwa Land Council) brought the Barunga Declaration to Parliament House.

Treaty ’88 and the Barunga Statement

• The Barunga Statement was the outcome of years of careful deliberation and discussion.
• It was delivered from “the Indigenous owners and occupiers of Australia”, requesting the Australian government legislate for national land rights and begin treaty negotiations.
• It also called for laws for a national elected Aboriginal body, and recognition of customary law by police and justice systems.
• The Barunga Statement was presented during a time where there were increasing calls for a treaty.
• The Treaty ’88 campaign declared that Australia was invaded by a foreign power with no treaty.

‘Treaty by 1990’

• However, others have highlighted the reconciliation movement’s departure from treaty.
• Playwright Wesley Enoch and actress Deborah Mailman’s play 7 Stages of Grieving includes a poem emphasising instead the “wreck”, “con” and “silly” in reconciliation.
• This would symbolise the burial of hopes for a treaty, saying
  Sovereignty became treaty, treaty became reconciliation and reconciliation turned into nothing.

To properly consider the Voice, we need to look to how we got here

• However, the Voice aims to address a key problem that recreates disadvantage: First Nations’ political power.
• First Nations peoples have long sought representation to seek particular rights to land, culture and heritage, language, self-determination and self-governance.
• The referendum for a Voice is the first of a three-part sequence of reforms, outlined in the 2017 Uluru Statement, followed by treaty and truth-telling.

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