#uluru statement

[cinnamonchaos]

for anyone in Australia, please do some reading beyond just the No Campaign and conservative media! There is so so much misinformation about what The Voice actually is and what it does.

Also remember - there is no 'progressive no'. We may agree that the government hasn't done enough, that a treaty should come first, and so much more action is needed. But voting no is slamming the door shut. It's not progressives winning, it's conservatives and racists and self-serving politicians. A no vote isn't progressive, it won't encourage the government to do more. If you think that the Lib party wants a no result so they can implement a better alternative, you've been deceived. There is no 'no, but because I want more action and a treaty' option. The yes will be the indicator of this, but a no will be taken as 'no action is needed' and 'we don't believe we need to recognise our country's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people'.

VOTE YES! 🖤💛❤️

[dialogue-queered]

Comment: In the first proposed referendum for altering the Australian constitution since the vote on a republic in the late nineties, Australians will be asked to recognise and give some advisory power to Australia’s aboriginal or first nations peoples.

Extract: The words to be added to the constitution (as a new chapter called “Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples”) are in three straightforward sentences: In recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia: There shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice; The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures.

[innervoiceartblog]

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[linguaphiliax]

Why I'm Voting Yes - Part 4: The Heart of Things

[mainnalle]

I'M SICK OF MY FELLOW AUSTRALIAN'S NOISE!

It's not political, it's CONSTITUTIONAL!!!

[sublimeobservationarcade]

We White Folk

We white folk live in a cocoon of well-off whiteness. We wander our white streets in search for bargain based happiness. Our mainly white suburbs buzz with the sound of expensive cars making their way to and fro from homes to high streets. Shopping centres are palaces of well-appointed materialism, where we frequent for retail therapy. Lives are lived with the sole purpose of endowering ourselves…

[triumph-of-adaptation]

I have a lot of feelings about this.

[kimiveronica]

[newsbites]

Indigenous sovereignty has become one of the defining issues ahead of the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament later this year:

Uluru Dialogue co-chair Professor Megan Davis, a constitutional lawyer and Cobble Cobble woman from south-east Queensland, says Indigenous sovereignty co-exists with the Crown. “Since neither federation in 1901 nor the recognition of Aboriginal people as citizens in 1967 ceded Indigenous sovereignty, nor would a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament ... No one can cede sovereignty other than yourself or your people, your tribe, your nation.”

And lawyer Noel Pearson, a Guugu Yimithirr man, who is also a prominent Voice advocate, has long argued that local Indigenous sovereignty can exist within European concepts of sovereignty as long as self-determination rights such as those contained in the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples are officially recognised and protected in common law.

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The most recent legal advice from the constitutional law expert group advising the Prime Minister’s Referendum Working Group, issued on February 2, was the line: “All members of the Expert Group agreed that the draft provision would not affect the sovereignty of any group or body.”

[schneiderenjoyer]

With Uluru Games event finally hitting global, we're having round two of the discussion on the new skins and how much talk of "they wouldn't wear this" or "it's clearly pandering"

While I agree to those statements, I also wanna entertain being a devil's advocate in saying that... Dikke would totally wear that. Like, not as a casual thing, but you gotta understand that if she were to participate in the Uluru games, she must abide by the dress code. And, yeah it's far more "modernizes" to appeal to people just to purchase them, but have you seen the female sport uniforms it's based on? The women actually do wear bloomers of some kind. The top and how squished and exaggerated her proportions became are my biggest gripe out of the design.

There's also a lot of topics on the fact their artstyle gave Dikke and Tooth Fairy some "enhancements" to parts and I agree that's unnecessary, but also I like to be delusional and believe they've been given proper support on their chest for the sport activities if you can even consider whatever tf straps is on Dikke to be support.

Overall, I do say some parts of the designs are in poor taste and clearly meant to boost the "appeal" to get people to buy them, but also y'all have me confused as to why people think Dikke wouldn't wear a uniform regulated by the event she's participating in. Reservations over it aside, she's there to throw a heavy ass javelin at the end of the day; controversial outfit for a medieval era woman or not.

[ancestorsalive]

"I acknowledge indigenous Australian’s connection to land and their sovereignty. I pay respect to the old stories of the land on which I live and work. The indigenous people of the world hold the old stories, as they are embedded in their traditional knowledge. Let’s look after the old stories. We need them more than ever."

OUR CAMPAIGN FOR A REFERENDUM ON AN INDIGENOUS CONSTITUTIONAL RECOGNITION THROUGH A VOICE TO PARLIAMENT NOW HAS A DESTINATION. ALL AUSTRALIANS CAN BE INVOLVED IN THE JOURNEY. You can find out more here: https://fromtheheart.com.au/

[dialogue-queered]

Australian Issues Primer

Comment: This is an open access article detailing the issues at stake in Australia's formal constitutional referendum on indigenous rights set for 14 October 2023.

Extract: With bleary eyes after a sleepless night, one of the Aboriginal leaders there described his "euphoria".

Indigenous people had just agreed to a consensus position on what we now know as the Uluru Statement from the Heart — a request for Australians to change our constitution.

They called it a simple plea to be heard, an idea they believed could repair the wounds of colonisation that run so deep. It took six years of rejection, diplomacy, and debate but now, on October 14, Australia will answer this question once and for all.

[innervoiceartblog]

VOICE FAQS - If you don’t know... YOU CAN FIND OUT!!!

"How do we stop repeating this same terrible cycle month after month, year after year, decade after decade?"

You are THE VOICE that will make history. Seriously.

Make sure you drown out the small-minded, mis-informed, racist negativity which has sadly been spread by fear and ignorance and VOTE YES! this Saturday 14th October to help ensure that the only right and decent choice is made for a better future for our Country and ALL Australians. Thank you. 

Here is an important Truth Telling letter which says it all:

"When I was 17, the ‘67 referendum gave me and my family the right to exist and to be counted in the place we’d always called home. When I’d turned 25, Gough Whitlam poured that famous red Kalkarindji sand into Vincent Lingiari’s hand. I was 58 when Kevin Rudd finally said Sorry - for the pain and the heartache, for the families destroyed and the children who were taken away. By the time I’d reached 67, the Uluṟu Statement from the Heart was written in ink, and Indigenous people finally had a plan to decide our future - to gain a voice of our own. Today, I’m 73, a Larrakia Elder, and in my time I’ve seen promises made and broken and Governments come and go. I’ve watched mouths wide open and ears shut closed. I’ve seen gaps get wider, disadvantage spread further, and our voices go largely unheard. But for the first time in such a long time, I feel optimistic about the future we’re creating. The referendum isn’t about politics or constitutions or governments or legislation - it came from us, not from them. It’s about finally answering a handful of questions that have plagued generations of our people: How do we keep our kids at school? How do we stop our communities’ suffering? How do we fight the scourge of domestic violence, suicide, and poor mental health? How do we stop repeating this same terrible cycle month after month, year after year, decade after decade? I’m tired of people making decisions for me and my community. Anyone else would be too. We’re not asking for money, we’re not asking for your backyards. The Voice doesn’t have the power to do either of those things. It’s a committee that gives advice to politicians on Indigenous issues, that’s all it does. If you aren’t Indigenous, it really won’t impact your life at all. We’re asking for recognition and acknowledgment, we just want to be heard and included. The Voice gives us a seat at the table. It gives us a way forward. It gives us hope. Please, look past the noise - allow us a real say, give our kids a better life.”

Aunty Bilawara Lee

Senior Larrakia Elder,

Northern Territory, Australia.

[positivelyqueer]

[Image description: a poster featuring a photograph of Uluru against a purple sky. Text on the image reads “It’s Time for a First Nations Voice to Parliament protected by the Constitution. Visit UluruStatement.org for more information.” Below is the logo for The Uluru Statement, the University of NSW Indigienous Law Centre and the text “Uluru Dialogue”. /end ID]

[maxellminidisc]

Truly begging white leftist to shut up...