Australian History from an Aboriginal perspective (Robbie Thorpe PART 5 of 5)

Part 5: Robbie Thorpe, of the Gunai people in S/E Victoria, giving a talk to Law students at Deakin University (Geelong, Australia) on 15 May 2009. **IN 5 Parts**

Subjects include:

1. The Legal questions of GENOCIDE and JURISDICTION. Do Australian courts have the jurisdiction to charge Aborigines in Australia? Under what jurisdiction? What is the real LAW of the LAND?

2. Climate change and Environmental Sustainability. Indigenous culture managed to sustain their way of life for 60,000+ years; European colonizers have almost destroyed the Australian ecosystem after barely 200 years of settlement. Is the ecocide fundamentally connected to the genocide and to European colonization and its industrial revolution?

3. Thoughts on the Native Title process, of which Robbie has recently started collaborating in preparing the Gunai/Kurnai claim for his mob. STAY TUNED to TheJuiceMedia for updates on this claim!

4. An overview of Aboriginal Activism and HISTORY key people tied to the topics of Sovereignty, Treaty, Terra Nullius the Aboriginal Embassy.

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[TheThirdGerman]

Very educational and inspiring.

Well done.

[horlicksrules]

If ever you decide to take up arms against your oppressors, to quote an English phrase ... remember to invite other races and cultures to join you! A lot of us don't agree with the white man's industrial colonisation of the planet either!!!

[hammrsgl]

There are key elements to aboriginality -Spirituallity - mother earth, Land and Sea - where they are from, Family, Ceremony, defining who they are. If you move an aboriginal away from his/her homeland, you taking away the very essence of who that person is and how connected they feel - their culture, their expression be it by drawings or dance, express who they are based on their connection with their birth land. Keep fighting Robbie, one day, we may all just 'get it'.

[casting4325]

Very ironic.Watched all five vids.Very good, thought provoking & inspiring.Robbie is right, there is a connection between the decline of Indigenous people & the climate.They are interlinked.Very good vids.Thanks juice.