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Campaigns
The following campaigns are either initiatied or supported by ANTaR
Victoria. We encourage you to get involved and get active!
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out more.
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"A better way" for NT Aboriginal communities
If your government told you where and how you could spend your money, wouldn't you feel outraged?
If your government said it would only fix essential services to your property as long as you agreed to hand over control of your property for a fixed amount of time, wouldn't that sound ridiculous?
If someone came from outside your community and imposed upon you, your family and friends a system that you could plainly see would cause more problems than it solves, wouldn't you stand up and shout NO!
The truth is, this is how your Government treats Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory. In the NT this is the law. Aboriginal people have been standing up and shouting NO but their voices have been ignored.
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Treaty
Scroll Campaign
ANTaR Victoria staff
have initiated a project to create a unique 'petition' for
a Treaty. The petition takes the form of a 20m scroll which
non-Indigenous people will 'sign' with their thumbprint.
The Treaty Supporters' Scroll serves as a call on the Crown
and the Commonwealth Government to recognise Aboriginal sovereignty
and enter a treaty process. The scroll also seeks to spark
action on local agreements (treaties) between Traditional
Owners and non-Indigenous people, groups and institutions.
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Racism makes me sick
Racism has recently been recognised in a number of key reports as a threat to public health in Australia.
A range of health problems including high blood pressure and heart disease, depression, anxiety, low birth rate and premature birth can all be caused directly by people's personal experiences of racism.
There is an Indigenous health crisis in Australia, and there is something you can do about it because of all the causes of ill health in Indigenous Australians, everyone can do something about racism.
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Remember 11.11.1869
11/11/2009 will be the 140th anniversary of the enactment of the Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act. It allowed government to:
• Prescribe where Indigenous Victorians lived
• Negotiate if and on what terms Indigenous Victorians were employed
• Appropriate wages earned by Indigenous groups or individuals and
• Assume custody of all Indigenous children
This Remembrance Day is the 140th anniversary of the Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act
Translation?
Stolen Land. Stolen Wages. Stolen Generations.
The 140th anniversary of the Act lends special significance to this Remembrance Day. Although 11 November is always a solemn day for Australians, this year we pay particular tribute to the service of Indigenous soldiers in times of war. We acknowledge that u nder this Act, some Indigenous soldiers were never paid their wages, and many were paid at much lower rates than their non-Indigenous comrades. ANTaR Victoria is asking Victorians to remember the harm inflicted upon Indigenous people under the auspices of this ‘Protection’ Act. By doing so, Victorians will be supporting reconciliation and Indigenous rights advocacy through ANTaR Victoria.
Buy a wristband for $2 to show that you acknowledge Victoria's history of dispossession.
Purchase online at www.antarvictoria.org.au or using the order form overleaf. To get involved with the campaign call the ANTaR Vic
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LISTEN up!
to
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices
Land and how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights and connection to land is fundamental to
achieving better social, health, wellbeing and economic outcomes for Aboriginal and
Islander people.
Investments in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culturally-based solutions and communitycontrolled
services and programs to tackle issues of Aboriginal and Islander
disadvantage.
Self-determination as the foundational principle for engagement with Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander communities and as the basis of policy formation and service delivery.
Treaties and agreements as the way forward
to restore the rightful place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander communities.
Evidence-based solutions to the issues of historic and current day dispossession and disadvantage.
National representation to restore Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice to provide policy and
program advice to the Federal Government in a form determined after consultation
with Aboriginal and Islander communities.
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Aboriginal ownership and management of Barmah Millewa national park
Barmah-Millewa is the largest River Red Gum forest in the
world, in the heart of Yorta Yorta Country. It is predominantly
State Forest, which means that it is threatened by unsustainable
logging and grazing practices, but also means that it is possible
for the State government to recognise Traditional Owner interests
though handback or agreements over its use and management.
Hence the Barmah-Millewa
Collective developed with the
Yorta Yorta the proposal of an Aboriginal owned (or ‘jointly
managed’) National Park. Similar parks exist in NSW,
the ACT and Northern Territory, the most well known being
Uluru and Kakadu. In these parks the land title was handed
back to the Traditional Owners who now lease the park to the
government in exchange for royalties, a majority on the Board
of Management and a range of other benefits such as employment
and training opportunities.
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Get
Real: Towards real reconcilation
Acting on the request of peak Indigenous
bodies in Victoria, ANTaR Vic is supporting their calls for
justice and real reconciliation for Indigenous Australians
in this state. The Victorian Traditional Owners Land Justice
Group (VTOLJG) and Victoria's State-wide and Peak Indigenous
NGO's have recently released documents outlining their key
concerns and how they can be addressed.
ANTaR is in turn asking for YOUR support and action to initiate
change based on principles which respect and recognise Indigenous
self-determination, human rights and culture.
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Removing
our white blindfolds
The White Blindfold Ritual is a public
action drawing attention to the need to continue the journey
towards reconciliation in Australia.
Designed as a powerful visual symbol for non-indigenous Australians
to acknowledge that so often they are blind to how racism
and a lack of respect for Indigenous culture and communities
impacts on Indigenous peoples, the White Blindfold Ritual
involves non-Indigenous participants ceremonially removing
white blindfolds and signing an artistic petition for a treaty
in front of Indigenous leaders.
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The
Black GST
During 2005, a concept known as the Black GST began to emerge,
promoted by a group of Indigenous leaders and non-Indigenous
supporters in Melbourne. This idea has also started to reverberate
around not only Victoria but interstate.
The Black GST asserts that:
Genocide
to be stopped;
Sovereignty to
be recognised; and
Treaty made
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ANTaR
"Stolenwealth" Games Action
ANTaR Victoria supported the Black
GST in its aim to use the Stolenwealth Games in Melbourne
during March 2006, as a chance to ‘remind Australia,
and to remind the world, that injustice lingers in this country.’
The
two key actions that ANTaR was involved in were:
- Public installation of 6 foot high letters spelling out
"STOLENWEALTH GAMES" during the Moomba Parade
in Melbourne
- Indigenous rights statement co-signed by 18 NGOs
Through these two initiatives,
ANTaR members and supporting organisations have been able
to draw significant public and media attention to the ongoing
struggle of Indigenous peoples in Australia to restore their
voice, wealth and health.
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