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Drawing on Aboriginal custodianship as an “earth science” foundation, it argues that wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples depends on legal empowerment and meaningful national recognition. 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This is the  \ncommon ground that we share. When the Gurindji leader and his people walked off Wave Hill Station, camping by the Victoria River and then eventually by Wattie Creek at Dagaragu almost half a century ago, they understood that the land was their birthright and their destiny. The Old Man also knew in his wisdom that a sharing of the living environment, a responsible Custodianship of the land, was the key to the common good for all Australians. With patience, humility and extraordinary dignity, Vincent Lingiari ʼs fight for genuine Land Rights shows us how it is possible to unite and inspire enough Australians to move the country towards a legal settlement that is fair in the eyes of most reasonable people.  \nThis is a priceless lesson as Australians once more contemplate many different views on recognition of the rights and rightful place of the First  \nPeoples. Vincent Lingiari was not a bit interested in the imperial delusions of the Australian Constitution or its negative concepts of racial superiority that leave a deep stain of discrimination on this outmoded document. He simply wanted recognition of the truth and legal acknowledgment that Australia ʼs First Nations had been dispossessed unreasonably and unlawfully for two centuries. The lesson for us all at this hour of our history is that the most important changes required for the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people are legal empowerment, meaningful recognition of their voices at a national level and the full establishment of Land Rights across the country.  \nOur nation has wasted too much time on empty promises of equality, on self-serving wedge politics and power plays in Canberra by the Great White Protectors, on naked greed that threatens the common good and ravages the land and on divide and conquer tactics that split communities and set Aboriginal leaders against one another, brother against brother and sister against sister. After such a long period of oppressive policies that clearly fail Aboriginal people we need to think more deeply about Vincent Lingiari ʼs conviction that it is possible to share this land fairly with everyone who now calls this country home.  \nAs a senior lawman, Vincent Lingiari was drawing on his grandfather ʼs knowledge and connection to Gurindji country, reclaiming and asserting the core responsibility of custodianship. Like the very strongest earth science, this foundational concept of the Aboriginal system of knowledge gives every man, woman and child some responsibility to help maintain the balance of the living system of life, the source of wellbeing for all creatures now and into the future. This view of humans as sentient custodians is an optimistic and enlightened philosophy that gives us the very best chance of maintaining the health of our species and others. It stands in marked contrast to the ravenous selfishness of the predatory human who takes only what he wants with no consideration of the common good.  \nAfter wandering the world for well over sixty years I have experienced the best and worst of the human species. Squeezing ten lifetimes into one, seeing the beauty and the horror, I am now certain that for the first time in the history of the earth a single species threatens the very balance of the interconnected systemson which all life depends. After witnessing some thirty wars, the impact of genocide in Cambodia, Guatemala and Rwanda, and the suffering in the man-made famines in Eritrea","cbCaipoPonE07AHm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipoPonE07AHm","pdf",251759,16,"English","# Custodianship in the 21st Century\n## Vincent Lingiari and Land Rights\n## Legal empowerment and meaningful recognition\n## Custodianship as balance and common good\n## Human predation, war, and mass extinction","[{\"question\":\"What does the lecture identify as the foundation of Aboriginal custodianship?\",\"answer\":\"It describes custodianship as a core responsibility that maintains balance in the living system of life, shaping wellbeing for all creatures now and into the future.\"},{\"question\":\"According to the lecture, what changes are most important for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes legal empowerment, meaningful recognition of their voices at a national level, and the full establishment of Land Rights across the country.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the lecture link human behavior to environmental and global crises?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that human systems driven by greed and predation contribute to conflict and accelerate species loss, placing Earth in a period of mass extinction.\"}]","Custodianship in the 21st Century - The Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture 2015 | PDF"]