A chance to meet an Australian Aboriginal leader in London
Diet Simon | 03.01.2004 19:28 | Anti-racism | London | World
An Australian Aboriginal leader will be in London from 11 to 14 January to try to start legal proceedings against The Crown for allowing Australian governments to make laws harming the Aborigines. Michael Anderson says he and his legal advisers have found a precedent in British law where a king was decapitated for the same offence, namely passing laws harming the Irish.
Tears of joy after winning a land rights ruling, later overturned.
Anderson, Nyoongar-Ghurradjong-Murri, Ghillar by his full Aboriginal name, once stripped to his underpants and threw a Union Jack wrapped around a ceremonial spear over the fence into the grounds of Buckingham Palace as TV cameras whirred. It was symbolism to take the evil back to where it started, he explains. "Actually, you're supposed to do it naked, but I didn't think I'd get away with that."
Anderson is available to give talks until 22 January.
He was recently elected Chairman of the Gumilaroi Nation of 15,000 people, Australia’s second largest Aboriginal group, who are spread through northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. His own clan are claiming the Lightning Ridge area famous for and wealthy from opal mining.
Anderson was one of the half dozen young activists who in 1972 set up the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra.
He’s a jurist, historian, painter, university lecturer and former professional rugby player who has campaigned for Aboriginal rights in Australia and internationally for 30 years.
He and his German wife now work a sheep farm near Hebel in southern Queensland which is gradually becoming a centre for Aboriginal recovery in the area.
Anderson can be contacted at telephone Germany #49 - 2844 – 15 19, Sapotnik.
Anderson is available to give talks until 22 January.
He was recently elected Chairman of the Gumilaroi Nation of 15,000 people, Australia’s second largest Aboriginal group, who are spread through northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. His own clan are claiming the Lightning Ridge area famous for and wealthy from opal mining.
Anderson was one of the half dozen young activists who in 1972 set up the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra.
He’s a jurist, historian, painter, university lecturer and former professional rugby player who has campaigned for Aboriginal rights in Australia and internationally for 30 years.
He and his German wife now work a sheep farm near Hebel in southern Queensland which is gradually becoming a centre for Aboriginal recovery in the area.
Anderson can be contacted at telephone Germany #49 - 2844 – 15 19, Sapotnik.
Diet Simon