Celebrate the federal parliament saying
SORRY
to the
Stolen Generation
11:00 am — 1:30 pm
Wednesday 13th February,
Jagera Arts Centre,
Musgrave Park
[Parking entrance from 121 Cordelia Street, West End]
The Community Meeting, chaired by Sam Watson, (see below) supported Antar in co-operation with Brisbane Community Elders and Musgrave Park Community in the organisation of this function. Murri elders will speak of their experiences as the stolen generation. Community dancing, music and open platform will follow.
Includes broadcast of Apology by Prime Minister.
For more information on the stolen generations
See Australians for Native Title and Recnciliation (ANTaR)
stolen-generations-antar.pdf
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URGENT COMMUNITY MEETING, BRISBANE
JAGARA HALL, MUSGRAVE PARK
12 NOON
WEDNESDAY 6TH. FEB
TO ORGANISE THE CANBERRA CONVERGANCE
PEOPLE INTERESTED IN GOING TO CANBERRA SHOULD COME ALONG
BUSES, CARS AND PLANES
( sam watson 0401227443 )
Converge on Canberra: Stand up for Aboriginal rights on the first day of the new parliament
Start: 12 Feb 2008 – 11:30am
End: 12 Feb 2008 – 3:00pm
Details:
Convergence on Canberra on 12 Feb 2008
Calling all Aboriginal people and supporters to converge on Canberra:
Stand up for Aboriginal rights on the first day of the new parliament.
Tuesday, February 12 2008
Meet Aboriginal Tent Embassy 11:30am
March to Parliament for 1pm rally
Minyung Woolah Binnung is a poetry book by Lionel Fogarty
Lionel Fogarty is a fighter for social justice.
I have heard him speak strongly for many years. He has campaigned like all the others: Sam Watson, Coco Wharton, Dennis Walker, Les Malezer , Bob Weatherall, Vanessa Fisher, Auntie Jean, Lilla Watson, Maureen Watson, Don Brady, Oogeroo, Adrian and Linda Burragubba, Charlie Perkins, Neville Bonner along with the Musgrave Park people, the Jagera Cultural Association, and the Brisbane Blacks since I can remember attending Land Rights rallies as far back as the early 1970s.
I have heard his poems and songs on the street against the Queensland Acts, our colonialist governments and their settler state.
Lionel was born in 1957, he is a Yugambeh man and their land stretches far and wide around the south east corner of Queensland [shown below].
I took the picture of Yugambeh land from the Mistake Mountains [sic] near Cunningham’s Gap.
Yugambeh land forms the banner of BushTelegraph as a mark of respect for this tribe and the other Murri clans in the place where we live.
White settlement in Australia has lasted only 8 generations (200 years ÷ 25 years).
Aboriginal settlement in ‘Terra Nullius’ (sic) has lasted more than 1,600 generations (40,000 years ÷ 25 years).
Sorrow for aboriginal dispossession is not enough.
Aboriginal people must have land rights and the economic ability to live in the land.
Minyung Woolah Binnung is available from:
Keeaira Press
P.O. Box 139
Southport
QLD 4215 Australia
Phone: 07-55028853
Fax: 07-55028854
E-mail: info@kpress.com.au