 | Aboriginal Ceremony - Yirritja Ngarra 'Riyawarray: Common Ground' 'Riyawarray: Common Ground' a film that honours and celebrates Yolngu (Aboriginal)customary law and culture. Our right to live our lives as free people without the inappropriate impositions of the Federal Government's emergency response the Intervention. This powerful snapshot documentary on Yolngu rites, rights and rituals as expressed through the recent Yirritja Ngarra Ceremony, was filmed at Milingimbi (remote Australia)in early August featuring Mathew Dhulumburrk, Ganygulpa Dhurrkay and Keith Lapulung (Dhamarrandji). Please share this film with your friends... If you require a DVD copy of Riyawarray please email us a request and a disciption of the event or TV show you require the film for and we will get back to you ASAP. Join our FaceBook support group "Riyawarray" http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24002697573 |
 | WHAT IS IT in Your Law Song 20 WSFD V1a from WHEN THE SKY FELL DOWN (1788 The Great South Land). Copyright Chris Robinson. All rights reserved. APRA/AMCOS registered. The Law of the Land Aboriginal Law has always been passed on through the Elders. The spearing of McEntire and change in Governor Phillip's policy was the beginning of a struggle for justice by Aboriginal people. Aboriginal people around the state eventually squatted on vacant land in their country and applied to the Government for freehold title. The Government declared them reserves rather than grant them the same title rights as the settlers. Later all Aboriginal reserve land came under Government control. Many reserves were closed down and whole communities relocated. The struggle for justice has taken many forms over the last 200 years. It is only now that the Australian legal system has acknowledged that Terra Nullius was wrong. Australians are just beginning to accept that Aboriginal people have a very unique and different Law. Aboriginal society had no idea of a 'king' or of a leader by choice or birthright as in Europe. The Europeans had no idea of Aboriginal Law and when a person appeared to be 'on side' they would be declared 'King of the Tribe' or "King Billy" and given an inscribed breast plate to wear. This continued throughout the 'contact' period along with massacres which were politely called "dispersals". Until recently, the Australian legal system did not consider Aboriginal property rights or Aboriginal law. The law tended to work against Aboriginal people. Policies and laws often had names that sounded caring - such as 'protection' - but their real effects were devastating and are still being felt today. "Now you primly say you're justified, And sing of a Nation's Glory, But I think of a people crucified - The real Australian story." Excerpt from Jack Davis, 1978 'Aboriginal Australia - To The Others' In New South Wales the Aborigines Protection Board was set up in 1883. Aboriginal people called it the 'Persecution Board'. Its agents were the police. The Board created reserves for Aboriginal people, but nearly half of NSW reserve land was claimed by Aboriginal groups. Reserves under the control of the Board were run by Non-Aboriginal managers who had absolute power. Aboriginal men on reserves could be made to work up to 32 hours per week without pay. In 1909 the Aborigines Protection Act gave the Board more powers, including the right to take Aboriginal children from their families and 'bring them up white'. This was 'for their own good' but the children and their families were never consulted. Boys and girls were sent out to work as labourers and domestic servants, but rarely received the wages that were supposed to be paid them. All over the State reserves were closed down and 'rationalised', often to provide land for soldier settlers. Whole communities were moved from their own country. In 1937 Commonwealth policy became Assimilation. This has been seen as an improvement on 'dispersal' and 'protection', but it meant that Aboriginal culture was worthless and had to be discarded so that Aboriginal people could be like other Australians. Aboriginal people, and many other Australians, now see assimilation as cultural genocide. In 1940 the Protection Board was abolished and replaced by the Aborigines Welfare Board. More Aboriginal children were taken away to be assimilated 'for their own good'. In the 1960s assimilation changed to integration, meaning Aboriginal people joining Australian society on their own terms, keeping as much of their culture as they liked. The Welfare Board was finally abolished in 1969. Aboriginal people, and many other Australians, now see assimilation as cultural genocide. In 1940 the Protection Board was abolished and replaced by the Aborigines Welfare Board. More Aboriginal children were taken away to be assimilated 'for their own good'. The Welfare Board was finally abolished in 1969. In 1972 Commonwealth policy changed to self determination, an advance on self-management. Aboriginal people were to make their own decisions. In 1990 ATSIC, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, replaced the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, with elected regional councils and a Board of Commissioners for Aboriginal people to shape their own future. The Australian Law Reform Commission recommended the recognition of Aboriginal law. Justice was to be achieved through Reconciliation. There is still much to be resolved for all Australians. |
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 | How to be a Good Lawyer - Judge Murray Sinclair In this excerpt from Tributary Streams of A Healing River, the Honourable Associate Chief Judge Murray Sinclair speaks about his personal challenges while working in the criminal justice system. Tributary Streams of a Healing River is an in depth study of restorative justice with over 14 hrs of video on 10 DVDs. (available from Heartspeak Productions -- www.heartspeakproductions.ca) Speakers Bio: Chief Judge Murray Sinclair was appointed Associate Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba in March of 1988. He was Manitoba's first Aboriginal Judge, and at that time, Canada's second. After serving as Special Assistant to the Attorney General of Manitoba, Judge Sinclair attended the Universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba and, in 1979, graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba. He was awarded the A. J. Christie Prize in Civil Litigation in his second year of law and articled with a law firm in his home town of Selkirk, Manitoba. He was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1980. In the course of his legal practice, Judge Sinclair practiced primarily in the fields of Civil and Criminal Litigation and Aboriginal Law. He represented a cross section of clients but by the time of his appointment, was known for his representation of Aboriginal people and his knowledge of Aboriginal legal issues. Shortly after his appointment as Associate Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba in 1988, Judge Sinclair was also appointed as Co-Commissioner, along with Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice A. C. Hamilton, of Manitoba's Aboriginal Justice Inquiry. buffy.jpg (6592 bytes)Manitoba Government Home Page |
 | mark mcmurtrie aboriginal sovereignty british legal scam 1 Mark McMurtrie explains in simple terms why British law and the governments of Australia are a complete fiction with no authority over the Australian people white and black.The very foundations of British law in Australia are built on legal quicksand and it is only through the population of Australia "agreeing" to the legality of British law in Australia that the scam continues,The law is truly an Ass in relation to it's practice and implementation in the Australian courts a joke that has the legal system and government laughing all the way to the bank, sit back and be amazed at the information contained herein. |
 | mark mcmurtrie aboriginal sovereignty british legal scam 2 Mark McMurtrie explains in simple terms why British law and the governments of Australia are a complete fiction with no authority over the Australian people white and black.The very foundations of British law in Australia are built on legal quicksand and it is only through the population of Australia "agreeing" to the legality of British law in Australia that the scam continues,The law is truly an Ass in relation to it's practice and implementation in the Australian courts a joke that has the legal system and government laughing all the way to the bank, sit back and be amazed at the information contained herein. |
 | mark mcmurtrie aboriginal sovereignty british legal scam 3 Mark McMurtrie explains in simple terms why British law and the governments of Australia are a complete fiction with no authority over the Australian people white and black.The very foundations of British law in Australia are built on legal quicksand and it is only through the population of Australia "agreeing" to the legality of British law in Australia that the scam continues,The law is truly an Ass in relation to it's practice and implementation in the Australian courts a joke that has the legal system and government laughing all the way to the bank, sit back and be amazed at the information contained herein. |
 | mark mcmurtrie lessons in law pt2 Mark McMurtrie has been investigating the law in Australia for over 16 years |
 | mark mcmurtrie lessons in law pt3 Mark McMurtrie explains in simple terms why British law and the governments of Australia are a complete fiction with no authority over the Australian people white and black.The very foundations of British law in Australia are built on legal quicksand and it is only through the population of Australia "agreeing" to the legality of British law in Australia that the scam continues,The law is truly an Ass in relation to it's practice and implementation in the Australian courts a joke that has the legal system and government laughing all the way to the bank, sit back and be amazed at the information contained herein. |
 | Aboriginal clutch by Brett Weber The aboriginals of a land are the main ingredient of organic environmentalisim. So we all need to learn a strict healthy lifestyle training daily innocent routine just to begin to start to help the Earth start to heal, like Law enforcers, and Teacher to a student, and parents for there own children have some form of daily innocent routine that give's them the strict habits that help society and now we also need to help the Earth. |
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