Media release – Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta, 20 September 2022
Tasmania’s Aboriginal treaty negotiations are not about a treaty
Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta says, “The Tasmanian Government’s negotiations with its selected Indigenous Truth Telling and Treaty is not about a treaty at all.”
He went on to say that what the Government’s negotiations are about is a ‘domestic agreement’ under its constitutional powers and laws. This he says will further entrench Tasmanian Aboriginals into colonialism, and Aboriginal self-determination will be controlled under this so-called treaty.
Premier Jeremy Rockcliff’s selected ‘treaty’ negotiation group, comprising white pretenders and disgruntled Aboriginals who are seeking honorary white-privileges, will agree to what the Government wants rather than seek true Truth Telling and treaty.
In recent years these pretenders, supported by Aboriginals who are in opposition to the Tasmanian Aboriginal community voice through the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, have been supported by the State Government to destroy Aboriginal heritage along the west coast.
This so-called treaty will place the Tasmanian Aboriginal people more firmly under Tasmanian-Australian laws of the relevant constitutions. More frankly, it will confirm Tasmanian Aboriginals are still colonised, with a legal framework to control any concessions it might allow.
Mr Everett concluded, “Mr Rockcliff is creating a rod for his own back, and will feed a festering wound by negotiating with pretenders and Aboriginals who seek personal benefits from agreeing with his government, a political nightmare for the premier.”
