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It challenges the national ideals invoked by “Advance Australia fair,” recounting historical harms such as killings, dispossession, refugee imprisonment, and environmental ruin. 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verse-with thanks to Anita Heiss.  \nAdvance Australia-Unfair  \nAustralians all should be ashamedFor we are not all free  \nThey killed the blacks and stole the landAnd lock up refugees  \nThe land is raped by profiteersThe Murray-River diedHistory's pageDenies the rageBecause historians lied.In prison cells how can we singAdvance Australia fair?¹  \nIntervention by whites into the affairs of Indigenous Australians,and especiallyIndigenous Territorians started back at La Perouse-long before such legislation as theNorthern Territory of Australia's Aboriginals Ordinance 1918-1943-and long beforeesteemed Elder and statesman Vincent Lingiari protested and agitated against theworking and social conditions at Wave Hill or now-known Kalkarinji-and walkedGurindji people to Wattie Creek or Dagaragu.  \nJohn Howard and Mal Brough are part of a long line of Chief Protectors who offerinterventionist programs,through their ‘special'powers policies.Added to that,it hastaken 219 years of refining of indigenous identity to arrive at the nonsensical definitionthat we live with today-Aboriginal/Aborigine,yet conditions have never improved andindigenous Australians,more than ever,exist on the periphery of Australian society,evenmore peripheral than migrants and refugees-not fully included in the overall Australiansocial contract,and still being managed as part of a problem,not as part of a society.Rural and remote community people remain as always,the fringe dwellers.  \n1  \nGurindji people now make up some of the wide Diaspora of Indigenous Australians,notjust from far-flung regions of the Northern Territory,but from all across Australia.So itis that I speak tonight of Diaspora as an Indigenous Australian experience-and not in thecontext of mass exodus of migrants,but still in the context of Indigenous Australiansbeing essentially,refugees (in the most part)in their own country and yet within theboundaries of the Australian state.Diaspora is usually mostly understood as the forcedmovement of people in overseas countries and can be as result of coercion,political,economic and social pressures and measures\"which directly,or even more so indirectly,force people to leave or flee their homelands for fear of life,liberty and security...”Butexpulsion or forced removal,as experienced in the Indigenous Australian setting can beclearly defined as \"an act,or a failure to act,by a State with the intended effect of forcingthe departure of persons against their will from its territory for reasons ofrace”...(International Law Association 1986).As Australian history tells us most of themigration of Indigenous Australians was brought about through economic and politicalpressures,and in earlier times directly through often violent disintegration of individualnations of people,followed by their reconstitution in foreign lands with an alien socialorder.The past truly has become for them a foreign country.Yet the Gurindji nationstood its ground,and under the leadership of several Gurindji statesmen,and women,ledby Vincent Lingiari,demanded their basic human rights.It is this that we come togetherto celebrate tonight in the 41year of the anniversary of the 1966 Wave Hill walk out.  \nThe Wave Hill walk out was a revolution that Gurindji led in the History that IndigenousAustralians apparently had to have.Government sanctioned dispersals as well as theforced removals that took place before the 1966 walk out and which saw people like myGrandmother end up in a compound in Darwin,long-distant from her ancestral homeland,as a forced migrant in foreign Larrakia country.  \nEven before Vincent Lingiari,his Gurindji and non-Gurindji supporters stood theirground at Kalkarinji,successive governments had introduced a wide range of indigenousintervention plans and strategies -they all failed.And they continued to fail","cbCaioz55gla7Wmm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioz55gla7Wmm","pdf",4452098,"English","# Breaking free - loosening the shackles of colonialism: the road 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