Archive for the ‘Political developments’ Category
Part of the global shift towards being a “First” person across the settler world (that perhaps began with the UNPFII notes), Indigenous peoples in Queensland will soon be officially recognised as First Queenslanders. From ABC Online: Queensland Parliament has passed legislation to insert a preamble into the State Constitution. The preamble will recognise the Indigenous […]
Filed under: Australia, Political developments | Closed
what self-legislated indigeneity looks like (defined from inside-out, rather than outside-in)
A Bill has been framed in Nigeria to uphold the rights of Indigenous people there, amid a “Settler, Indigene squabble”, writes Onwuka Nzeshi of AllAfricaNews. The Bill reads in parts: “A person is an indigene of a local government area or area council in Nigeria, if – (a) he or she or any of his […]
Filed under: Africa, Political developments | Closed
This is really captivating viewing: a YouTube clip of Eugene Terre’Blanche at the end of last year. Yes, he’s has made a comeback, appealing to the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging bittereinders to adjust their rhetoric of discontent. Gone is the gun-toting hyperbole of standing their ground, and subtler is the racist language of their leader. Their new […]
Filed under: Political developments, public lecture, Southern Africa | Closed
I’ve had considerable difficulty finding more details about the book launched yesterday in Sydney by former Federal Court judge, Murray Wilcox, entitled Kimberley at the Crossroads: The Case Against the Gas Plant. This from ABC Online: “It’s a funny situation isn’t it, that Aboriginal people are expected to give up their cultural heritage for the […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Political developments | Closed
In a recent hour-long podcast, two presentations are reproduced from a recent seminar “`Ike: Historical Transformations: Reading Hawaii’s Past to Probe Its Future”. It can be downloaded from Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond. The first is by Keanu Sai, a man whose work I have only recently discovered, and the second is […]
Filed under: Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty | Closed
The Northern Territory intervention has allowed the Australian government to experiment with ‘quarantined’ welfare provision – by rolling out ‘Basics cards’ – in the region. Today the ABC has published an interview in which the system is called ‘apartheid-like’ – although this type of rhetoric has been around since 2008 (see rollbacktheintervention). The comparison of […]
Filed under: Australia, media, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
In a speech in Sydney yesterday, before an audience of American lawyers, Noel Pearson of the Cape York Institute argued that the developments in recognising Native Title during the 1990s have left most Aboriginal communities no better: Native title in this country is the sum total of whatever berry-picking rights Indigenous claimants might be able […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Political developments | Closed
call for papers: anzlhs law and history conference: owning the past – whose past? whose present?
From their website: The use and study of the past is constantly being refashioned and reinterpreted to construct meaning in the present, imparting understandings of a common but chaotic humanity. Because everyone and no one ‘owns’ history, the ownership of historical events and the right to speak of them remains deeply contested. What are the […]
Filed under: Australia, Call for papers, Canada, Empire, law, New Zealand, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
From the NZ Herald: A Ngapuhi leader is warning that “outsiders” could derail the tribe’s progress to settlement while others accuse the organisation he leads of manipulating the settlement process. In Te Runanga a Iwi o Ngapuhi’s (Traion) annual report chairman Sonny Tau outlines the importance of moving from grievance to development. Delaying Treaty of […]
Filed under: New Zealand, Political developments, Sovereignty | Closed
trekking to libya?
South African farmers seeking greener pastures, and Libya has been earmarked as a potential settler domain.
Filed under: Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
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