#aboriginal flag

[alatarielqueen]

[siancore]

Here, have this Aboriginal Flag cupcake 🖤💛❤️

[kachavashka]

Today is Invasion Day here in Australia. On the 26th January 1788, European colonizers began the destruction of over 60,000 years of indigenous knowledge and culture.

This quick drawing was made in solidarity with the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. Especially the Noongar people on whose land I live.

Always Was, Always Will Be.

[kropotkindersurprise]

January 26 1988 - Burnum Burnum plants the Aboriginal flag at the cliffs of Dover, claiming England for the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, exactly 200 years after Arthur Phillip claimed Australia for the British. [video] The full Burnum Burnum Declaration:

I, Burnum Burnum, being a nobleman of ancient Australia, do hereby take possession of England on behalf of the Aboriginal people. In claiming this colonial outpost, we wish no harm to you natives, but assure you that we are here to bring you good manners, refinement and an opportunity to make a Koompartoo - ‘a fresh start’. Henceforth, an Aboriginal face shall appear on your coins and stamps to signify our sovereignty over this domain. For the more advanced, we bring the complex language of the Pitjantjajara; we will teach you how to have a spiritual relationship with the Earth and show you how to get bush tucker.

We do not intend to souvenir, pickle and preserve the heads of 2000 of your people, nor to publicly display the skeletal remains of your Royal Highness, as was done to our Queen Truganinni for 80 years. Neither do we intend to poison your water holes, lace your flour with strychnine or introduce you to highly toxic drugs. Based on our 50,000 year heritage, we acknowledge the need to preserve the Caucasian race as of interest to antiquity, although we may be inclined to conduct experiments by measuring the size of your skulls for levels of intelligence. We pledge not to sterilize your women, nor to separate your children from their families. We give an absolute undertaking that you shall not be placed onto the mentality of government handouts for the next five generations but you will enjoy the full benefits of Aboriginal equality. At the end of two hundred years, we will make a treaty to validate occupation by peaceful means and not by conquest.

Finally, we solemnly promise not to make a quarry of England and export your valuable minerals back to the old country Australia, and we vow never to destroy three-quarters of your trees, but to encourage Earth Repair Action to unite people, communities, religions and nations in a common, productive, peaceful purpose.

Burnum Burnum

[redrcs]

Separation

[vanishingsydney]

You are on Aboriginal land. In the case of the Inner West, it's Gadigal Country. Earthworks just starting on an enormous new apartment building complex - 270 units spread over buildings up to 12 storey's high on what was mainly low-rise inter-war period light industrial factories and warehouses. Directly under absolute flight path, less than 3km from the end of the main runway at Sydney Airport. They'll need double glazed windows. Rampant over development. Marrickville.

[slashonmydash]

it was so cute seeing these little statements up in the gantry

[historical-nonfiction]

In 2005, a public health award was given to an innovative condom-selling pilot project: condoms in the colors of the Aboriginal flag. They were designed by young Aboriginal people, and distributed by 40 Indigenous peer sellers trained in sexual health messages. The award was awarded thanks to the initiative's success in improving safe sex practices among young Indigenous people.