Eminent Australians' against NT intervention - Gillian Triggs & Rosalie Kunoth Monks II This is the Week that Was II Bruce Pascoe & Dark Emu

‘concerned Australians’ (cA ) organised the launch of an
Eminent Australian's statement calling for an end to
the failed Northern Territory Interventionon August
28th at the Melbourne University Law School. Over 200
Eminent Australians put their name to this important statement
found here . Professor Gillian Triggs, the immediate past
President of the Australian Human Rights Commission,  gave the
first speech of the night. First Nation  Eastern Arrernte
woman Rosalie Kunoth- Monks OAM  from the Utopia
homelands, 250 Kms North East of Alice Springs,  was one of
four First Nations people present  who also spoke up. You can
hear Rosalie also in this interview. ‘concerned Australians'
motto is Without Justice there can be no
reconciliation To listen to the full audio (2 hours) of the
evening download the cA audio here. "If you
have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have
come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us
work together."Lilla Watson and a group of Aboriginal activists in
Queensland in the 1970s Kevin Healy gives us a rundown of this
weeks politics.Bruce Pascoe's new book Dark Emu asks the question
why are our school children not taught the true history of this
land? Bruce was talking at the Fitzroy Town Hall about this and
that.