UN Rights Body Rules Australia Failed to Protect from Climate Change
Torres Strait Islanders Owed Compensation, ‘Continued Safe Existence’
The UN is a bunch of corrupt, thieving third world layabouts who should be swimming with the fish. “Climate change” is an extortion racket and everyone involved in it should be treated as a criminal.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee on September 23 found that the Australian government had violated the rights of Indigenous Torres Strait Islanders by failing to adequately protect them against the adverse impacts of climate change.
The committee also found that that the government had not provided the Islanders with a way to maintain their traditional way of life and transmit their culture to their children.
It cannot be the job of The Australian government to maintain tribal culture(s) that clash with the values of civilisation.
“States that fail to protect individuals under their jurisdiction from the adverse effects of climate change may be violating their human rights under international law,” said Hélène Tigroudja, a committee member.
“Climate change” is a scam to expropriate white people and to rob them of their birthright & their future. No Aboriginal is threatened by ‘climate change’. The UN needs to be kicked out of Australia.
Earlier blog entries:
‘Start of apartheid’: Labor’s push for ‘Aboriginal-only’ parliament
Labor’s plans for a kind of Aboriginal-only parliament look day by day like “the start of apartheid”, Sky News host Andrew Bolt says.
“Right now, believe it or not, Aborigines own through native title … half of Australia, and have land claims that could increase their ownership to nearly two thirds of the continent – even though they make up just over three per cent of the population,” Mr Bolt said.
Again: this is not about changing the date of Australia Day to another. It is a full frontal attack on all civilised people who call Australia home. Malcontents, Mohammedans, feral trash & degenerates denying the birthright of our children.
Australia Day: hardline group not interested in changing date
Invasion Day protesters in Melbourne. Picture: David Caird
- The Australian, CHIP LE GRAND
The organisers of the largest Aboriginal rally staged since the 1970s land rights movement have dismissed the campaign to change the date of Australia Day as a “feel good’’ gesture that would do nothing to address fundamental issues of Aboriginal rights, sovereignty and social and economic results.
The hardline position adopted by activists group Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance movement has put an emerging generation of Aboriginal leaders at odds with the Greens and other left-wing political parties pushing for Australia Day to be shifted from January 26.
“We are here for our sovereignty, we are not here to help people find a day to celebrate,’’ WAR founder Miriki Onus told the big crowd at the start of an “Invasion Day’’ march through central Melbourne’s streets.
“I don’t want to feel good about change the date. I want justice for all my people, every single one of them. And I will fight every single day for that, on any f..king Australia Day. Any day you celebrate, I’ll protest, I’ll be there.’’
Fellow organiser Dtarneen Onus-Williams took the rhetoric one step further.
“We have not organised this to change the date. We have organised this to abolish Australia Day because f..k Australia. F..k Australia, I hope it f..king burns to the ground.’’
Aboriginal writer, academic and activist Tony Birch, an influential figure in the 1970s Aboriginal rights movement, said changing the date would, on its own, achieve nothing.
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- Waleed said changing the date of Australia Day was ‘the next inevitability’
- He stated whatever people’s views were, they should prepare for a new date
- Aly drew comparisons between the same sex marriage debate and Australia Day
- Friday saw rallies demanding the date be changed and flag-waving celebrations
Does anyone in his right mind give a f*kc what Wally has to say?
“To those who are suggesting that we change the date, to those who are suggesting that we hold this event on another day, this country does not deserve a day of national celebration in any capacity,’’ he said. “This country, this white nation, is not mature enough to have a day of national celebration.’’
Greens leader Richard Di Natale addressed the crowd an hour earlier and pressed the case to change the date as a first step towards Aboriginal sovereignty.
“We will change the date, we will reconcile and we will achieve a treaty with the First Nations people,’’ he said.
Greens MP Lidia Thorpe, the first indigenous woman to be elected to the Victorian parliament, called for flags at Parliament House to be flown at half-mast on January 26 to acknowledge the dispossession and atrocities against Aboriginal people.
“I see the 26th of January as an opportunity for this nation to come together and one of the ways we can do that is to first know the truth of the day and to have ownership of past wrongs, and allow some healing time for this nation to come together and decide on a date that we can all celebrate,’’ she said.
About 10,000 people marched through the city, dwarfing the turnout for an official Australia Day parade earlier on the same streets. Several signs declared RIP Australia Day, Why Celebrate Genocide and F..k the Date — Change the System.
Ms Onus-Williams used a megaphone to heckle people who had come to watch the earlier parade, accusing them of celebrating genocide, dancing on the graves of her ancestors and flying a flag soaked in Aboriginal blood.
WAR, which was formed in 2014, rejects Australian citizenship and the Australian legal system and describes liberal principles such as freedom of speech, expression, association and religion as “ideals serving only the interests of wealthy whites with power and privilege”.
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In Melbournistan, nothing is worse than the “far right”
Police on alert for ‘invasion day’ rally and far-right beach party
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Police are keeping a close eye on the potential for violent clashes at competing rallies on Australia Day, with Melbourne set to grind to a halt as thousands of protesters flood into the city on Friday.
A huge crowd is expected to gather on the steps of Parliament House and march to Federation Square for the annual ‘invasion day’ rally, for which protesters have been asked to wear black to symbolise the mourning felt by the Indigenous community.
It will be 230 years since the establishment of a British colony in Australia and the demonstration will remember the 80th anniversary of the first “day of mourning” in 1938, when Aboriginal people walked in silence to protest the “callous treatment of our people by the white man”.
Far-right groups the True Blue Crew and United Patriots Front are also planning their own “beach party” in St Kilda to celebrate Australia Day and could also make an appearance at the CBD rally, as well as a citizenship ceremony in Moreland City Council.
Moreland drew criticism last year for pledging to no longer refer to Australia Day because of the distress it causes Indigenous communities, however it did not go as far as the City of Darebin and Yarra City Council which voted to stop holding citizenship ceremonies on January 26.
In response, the federal government stripped both councils of their right to host the ceremonies completely.
The Department of Home Affairs said that about 191 applicants from Darebin and Yarra would be conferred citizenship at ceremonies held outside their council this week.
Meriki Kalinya from the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance said organisers of the “invasion day” rally did have concerns about a counter demonstration from far-right extremists.
“We’re going to encourage people that attend our rallies to not engage and not fall into the tactics that the neo-Nazis that will use against us,” she said.
Neil Erikson, founder of the anti-Islam United Patriots Front, tweeted on Monday that he would be attending the citizenship events in the “undemocradic” Moreland Council on Australia Day.
“Let’s see them try to stop me. Then I will be attending the ‘Invasion Day’ protest in the City to express my Patriotism, After all that I will be attending the TBC/UPF BBQ at St Kilda. Great Australia Day,” he tweeted.
One of the faces of the Australian far-right movement, Erikson has been convicted of inciting contempt, revulsion and ridicule of Muslims. He was also charged after violent brawls at an event for controversial far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in December, he is due to appear before a magistrate at a later date.
While Darebin is not planning any events on Australia Day, Yarra will hold a small-scale, “culturally sensitive” event featuring a smoking ceremony to acknowledge the loss felt by the Indigenous community.
Socialist Yarra councillor Stephen Jolly said it would be “below the belt” if the extremist groups disrupted that event and that they would not be welcome at the “invasion day” rally either.
“They don’t have the balls to take on thousands of people who are loud and proud in the city,” he said.
“I think they’ll go to an empty park and break out the tinnies and listen to Barnesy. They are cowards and they’re disunited.”
According to an invite on the True Blue Crew Facebook page, the St Kilda foreshore event will celebrate “1 of the greatest days on the Aussie calendar”. Those attending are encouraged to bring their Australian flags.
In response, City of Port Phillip mayor Bernadene Voss said the event did not have permission and that “no permits would be issued if they asked for one”.
A council-wide alcohol ban has also been issued for all public spaces for January 26 and 27 after nearly 5000 party-goers trashed St Kilda beach on Christmas Day.
There has been increasing mainstream community support to move Australia Day, most notably shown by the ABC moving the Triple J Hottest 100 from January 26 to a day later.
Ms Kalinya from the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance said changing the date would be a “feel-good tokenistic gesture” with no lasting impact.
“And then next week it will be yesterday’s news, ” she said. Indigenous people would still be living with comparatively high rates of poverty and imprisonment, she said. She said the protest was about the “invasion and subsequent genocide of our people”, which moving Australia Day would not address.
“We want truth and justice and we want our sovereignty recognised,” she said.
A Victoria Police spokesperson said extensive planning had been undertaken with local councils about the protests on Australia Day.
“Public safety is our number one priority and police will maintain an appropriate presence throughout all planned events,” the spokesperson said.
“As always, police will not tolerate any antisocial or criminal behaviour from any sector of the community.”
It’s true. A tiny minority of agitators can destroy a civilization. Apparently a civilization that becomes obsessed with appeasing identity groups is vulnerable to these loud mouthed trouble makers.
The Onus is definitely on the grievance industry to please explain why changing the date will change anything for them.
The protestors need to get over themselves. It was an invasion. They lost. They are not going to change history. How about leaving the past behind and enjoying the great benefits that European settlement brought? Oh, and if the ABC supports a change, it has to be wrong. I see that it is fine for pro-change protestors to march but not ok for those who support the status quo. The citizenship test states that Australia is a democracy. It is under threat.
and if some foreign power were starting to invade Arnhem Land or any aboriginal territory – they’d be the first to clamour for the Australian Government (i.e. the rest of us) to defend them.