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	Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Icon or Eyesore? (Chronology 3 1999-2000)
		In July 1972 the embassy was removed by police in, reportedly, one of the most violent confrontations experienced in Canberra.(15) Following the confrontation, the Government attempted to portray the Aboriginal Tent Embassy as unrepresentative of Aboriginal opinion.
		The Organisation of Aboriginal Unity re-established the Aboriginal Tent Embassy to protest at the administration of Aboriginal affairs.
		The 1967 referendum was mourned at a ceremony at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/chron/1999-2000/2000chr03.htm (6261 words)

	Aboriginal Tent Embassy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In March 1976 the Aboriginal Embassy was established in a house in the nearby Canberra suburb of Red Hill, however this closed in 1977.
		On the twentieth anniversary of its founding, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was re-established on the lawns of Old Parliament House.
		A symbol at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the so-called Sacred fire which represents peace, justice and sovereignty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aboriginal_Tent_Embassy (896 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Sovereignty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australian Aboriginal Sovereignty is a political movement amongst Indigenous Australians in the 20th century, demanding control of parts of Australia by native peoples.
		In 1972, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on the steps of Parliament House in Canberra, the Australian capital, to demand sovereignty for the Aboriginal peoples.
		Demands of the Tent Embassy have included land rights and mineral rights to Aboriginal lands, legal and political control of the Northern Territory, and compensation for land stolen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_Sovereignty (193 words)

	European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights: news
		The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is currently in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia, over the validity of the legal claim of sovereignty that the British Crown asserted over the land known as Australia, by Lieutenant Cook in 1770.
		A five year campaign by the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in the Hague is anticipated with the overall view of building and maintaining an international platform so the issues that have to be overcome become evident to the people and governments of Australia, Britain and, just as importantly, the rest of the world.
		The Aboriginal Tent Embassy will also be lighting the sacred fire for peace and justice at the United Nations office in Geneva,and will be attempting to sign the Kyoto protocol on the world environment, as the Australian Government has failed in its obligations to the people of Australia.
	www.eniar.org /news/ate.html (1078 words)

	Aboriginal ownership of species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tent embassy elder Kevin Buzzacott was summonsed to appear in the ACT Magistrates Court over the theft after police served a warrant on the tent embassy -- in front of Old Parliament House -- at 4.15pm yesterday.
		The Aboriginal tent embassy yesterday lodged a writ in the High Court to stop the Commonwealth's use of the kangaroo and emu on Australia's coat of arms.
		Aboriginal elders who signed the writ claimed kangaroos, emus and native animals were sacred symbols that had been stolen and abused by white colonisers.
	www.williams.edu /go/native/rooemu.htm (745 words)

	The Paper - Independent Newspaper - Edition 041
		In 1993, the fire for peace and justice was lit as a memorial for Aboriginal freedom fighter Kevin Gilbert, and a portion of his ashes were placed in the fire.
		In 2001 Auntie Isabell Coe took ashes from the sacred fire and established an Aboriginal Embassy in The Hague and Ireland, for the recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty.
		Representing these aspects of Aboriginal Communities and this is why the government is quick to dismiss the ATE as an eyesore.
	www.thepaper.org.au /issues/041/041aboriginal_tent_embassy___214__years_sovereignty_never_ceded.html (830 words)

	European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights: news
		The Aboriginal Tent Embassy has been the driving force of the Aboriginal Sovereignty movement since 1972 and remains the grassroots platform for the voices of Aboriginal Peoples.
		Aboriginal people are under constant attack, there is still a genocidal war going on," stated Arinya Freeman who has been subjected to all three attacks on the embassy.
		Established in 1972, the embassy became a permanent presence in the parliamentary triangle in 1992.
	www.eniar.org /news/ate8.html (1676 words)

	AOA - news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Aboriginal Tent Embassy has been set up to assert Aboriginal Sovereignty and in particular highlight how the Aboriginal people are regarded as "aliens" in our own land.
		We welcome the dialogue that has transpired between the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the South Sydney Council and call for full co-operation in achieving a peaceful coexistence whilst the Aboriginal Tent Embassy carries on our aims and objectives which are safeguarded by the United Nations Human Rights Instruments.
		Ms Coe said that as a ceremonial centre, there was already a ban on drugs and alcohol, but because of the nature of the tent embassy, which was set up to tell Olympics visitors and media about indigenous oppression, it could not be contained to 100 square metres.
	www.cat.org.au /aoa/documents/tent-emb.html (917 words)

	View topic - 3rd firebomb attack at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy Canberra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Monday night, at 9pm the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, on the lawns opposite Old Parliament House was a boom and a blast with the third firebomb attack in just over 12 months.
		This is the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and, we won’t go away we will stay and fight, we have a right to life and a right to existence and a right to being who we are, Aboriginal people,” declared Aboriginal Tent Embassy Elder, Uncle Neville Chappie Williams in front the blazing camp.
		The Aboriginal's treatment since Europeans arrived to present day has been so far beyond fucked and it still is. We are currently enforcing a state of essential genocide by failure to provide the aboriginal people with the necessary assitance to raise them from the inferior social situation we've put them in.
	www.pithrecords.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=490 (3337 words)

	Project :: Brisbane City Enterprises - Your partner in creating more livable cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While the original purpose of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was to act as a forum for protest against the then government’s failure to recognise land rights it has been used as a vehicle over the years to highlight many other issues of concern to Indigenous people.
		The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is on public land and, as such, the National Capital Authority (NCA) has the responsibility for maintaining the grounds and any public facilities it erects on the site.
		We, as two Aboriginal people, support the existence of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and its ongoing presence, until fair resolution of the issues that existed when it was established three decades ago.
	www.bce.com.au /about/tent.embassy.htm (2730 words)

	TRANSCRIPT ON RADIO NATIONAL BREAKFAST (RADIO NATIONAL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Embassy is a cluster of tents and protesters on the lawns in front of Old Parliament House and it was set up in 1972 to draw attention to Indigenous issues.
		The Tent Embassy - the power of it is symbolic really and it's now listed on the Australian Register of the National Estate for the symbolism of it as a site representing political struggle.
		Unfortunately it now symbolises even more the struggle that Aboriginal people have basically gone back to before, and have a worse situation now than what they were in the 1960s and 70s when the Embassy first went up.
	www.ministers.dotars.gov.au /jl/pressconf/2005/LPC_27_2005.htm (1549 words)

	The Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Tent Embassy is one of a number of actions taking place in the long struggle of the Aboriginal people for their rights and for recognition of their prior sovereignty, occupation and ownership of the Australian continent.
		The Tent Embassy occupies only a small corner of the large Victoria Park and is situated a long way from the nearest road and from residential areas.
		It is expected that the Tent Embassy may appeal against the decision of the Land and Environment Court but in any case the spirit and quiet determination of the Aboriginal people staging the Tent Embassy suggests that they will not be moved.
	www.zip.com.au /~cpa/garchve2/1014tent.html (345 words)

	Borders - Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Parliamentary Triangle - Norman Peters - 157/246 - World Wide Panorama
		The Tent Embassy was erected on the lawn outside Parliament House in Canberra on Australia Day in 1972 as a protest in response to an Aboriginal policy statement by the Prime Minister, in which he announced his government's Aboriginal policy.
		Aboriginal communities were to be granted only special purpose leases if they could demonstrate adequate economic or social use for them.
		The protest was called an embassy to symbolise the feeling of many Aboriginal people that they were foreigners in their own country so long as they had no legal freehold title to any part of Australia.
	geoimages.berkeley.edu /wwp306/html/NormanPeters.html (524 words)

	News at the Aboriginal Peoples Family Accord
		The Aboriginal Tent Embassy represents aboriginal rights in Australia and was set up in 1970, adjacent to the Old Parliament House.
		She says the Australian aboriginal was most interested in what steps are being taken in British Columbia to improve the care of aboriginal children, youth.
		She says taking over aboriginal children, youth services, both on reserve and off, is a definite move in the right direction.
	apfabc.org /apfa_news_aussie_ashes.htm (391 words)

	RE: [recoznettwo] Press Call from Aboriginal Tent Embassy
		I am hoping to visit the Tent Embassy in Canberra one day (I'm in Brisbane), I have never been there and I have a special journey to make to the Tent Embassy with my Mum, a healing journey.
		I hope the person or persons who so dangerously drove a car over tents recently will understand that our ancestor spirits know who they are, and that their behaviour is entirely dishonourable and cowardly.
		It is either for sale to give the proceeds to Aunty Isabelle, or if you may be travelling from Brisbane to the Tent Embassy in Canberra I would be very grateful for someone (maybe a truckie?) to take it there for me please, my phone is Brisbane (07) 3805 4844, or 0400 117 886.
	www.mail-archive.com /recoznettwo@green.net.au/msg00670.html (875 words)

	Brendon Harris, 1972 Embassy Information
		Such an article inspired by the 1972 Tent Embassy proves that this event in European history was the beginning of a long and continuing struggle for Aboriginal recognition.
		During the Tent Embassy of 1972 the Aboriginal Flag, designed by Harold Thomas and Gray Foley, was flown for the first time, the Embassy was established to draw attention to Aboriginal demands for recognition of their rights to tribal lands.
		Firstly, lets consider the first Tent Embassy as failing, this can be rationalised because of the need for a second Embassy in 1992 hence suggesting that this attempt for Aboriginal Recognition failed.
	www.shoal.net.au /~bjharris/hsie/1972/1972.html (561 words)

	The Australian: Tent embassy burns down (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		FIRE has destroyed an Aboriginal tent embassy established almost four years ago to guard a sacred site at a controversial housing development near Wollongong, south of Sydney.
		The Sandon Point tent embassy is manned 24 hours a day and was set up to guard a 6000-year-old burial site uncovered by a storm in 1998.
		Residents of the embassy said a fire which started in a six-man tent on August 16 this year was a deliberate attack, while another suspicious fire destroyed a shed and a tent on April 10.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,10819359^1702,00.html (233 words)

	Aboriginal Tent Embassy
		Indigenous elders invite all Aboriginal people, supporters and other members of the general public, to come together at the 'Aboriginal Tent Embassy' site, on Friday 26th January 2007, to celebrate "SOVEREIGNTY DAY" and be part of the Sacred Fire Ceremonial Gathering.
		As a direct result of these unprovoked and planned transgressions, Aboriginal people of terra Australis resisted and defended our inherent sovereign heritage that continues to be suppressed by political ideology and economic greed which clearly stands out in the endemic statistical evidence of Aboriginal people's quality of life and restrictions of a free Aboriginal voice.
		On the 26th of January 2006 the Federation of Aboriginal Sovereign Nations formed an Aboriginal Tent Embassy `Working Group', which was given a mandate to assist the Federation organise and facilitate planned activities and raise funds to meet their operational requirements at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy site.
	www.aboriginaltentembassy.net (714 words)

	[Nc-tlds] FW: Press Release from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, Australia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The celebrations of apartheid and genocide are condemned by the owners of this country and wish to express our sadness for the victims that have experienced the human violations of the British Empire and their constituents since 1788.
		The Aboriginal Nations of this country continue to challenge the British Crown and the Commonwealth of Australia=92s usurped sovereignty of this country, now called Australia.
		The Aboriginal Nations of this Country would like to "relay" to the pseudo =AD government appointed Aboriginal leaders that they have no womandate/mandate to make decisions on behalf of Aborigine Australia and in many cases not even their own communities.
	lists.essential.org /pipermail/nc-tlds/2001q1/000370.html (991 words)

	The World Today - Police, protesters in Aboriginal tent embassy clash
		JOHN HIGHFIELD: Supporters of the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra have vowed to rebuild a larger structure after the one that was there was removed in a dawn raid this morning by over 70 ACT police, some of them dressed in full riot gear.
		Two people from the tent embassy who were resident at the time were arrested during this morning's pre-dawn operation.
		LOUISE YAXLEY: Aboriginal residents say they should be allowed to have the gunya and shouted their protests at the raid and the tactics.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s788025.htm (778 words)

	active sydney - webcast news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Aboriginal Tent Embassy have declared that they have not consented to an anti-Olympic protest, rallying at Victoria Park on September, 15th 2000.
		The Embassy has raised serious concerns and sort legal advice in relation to the unauthorised use of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy name along with names of supporters and traditional elders for the Anti-Olympic rally.
		The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Victoria Park was set up to project the Sovereign rights of the Aboriginal people, of our lands and culture.
	www.active.org.au /sydney/webcast/front.php3?article_id=569 (316 words)

	:: Schnews :: SchNEWS OF THE WORLD
		At the time the embassy was first established it was opposite the front steps of Australia’s parliament house where it couldn’t be ignored (parliament moved to a new building further up the road in 1988).
		But the tent embassy now faces the its biggest threat yet: the federal government are hoping to replace the thirty year old autonomous zone outside their old seat of power with a bit of polished marble across the park they’re calling ‘Reconciliation Place’.
		Already the national heritage listing bestowed on the tent embassy in 1983 for unique cultural and political value has been transferred from the tent embassy to the new shrine, a "white mans monument to a fl mans tombstone".
	www.schnews.org.uk /sotw/aboriginal-tent-embassy.htm (598 words)

	The Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Federal Government is manoeuvring to have the Aboriginal tent embassy removed from the lawns of Federal Parliament House.
		The first tent embassy was erected on Australia Day, 1972, and called an "embassy" to symbolise the feeling of many Aboriginal people that they were foreigners in their own country so long as they have no legal freehold title to any part of Australia.
		Residents of the embassy said last week that it is a symbol of the fight of Aboriginal people for land rights and that is why the Government wants it removed.
	www.cpa.org.au /garchive/939ab.htm (463 words)

	Report on Sydney Aboriginal Tent Embassy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The parties are back in Court on August 23rd Judge Cowdroy today granted South Sydney council's interlocutory injunction against Isobel Coe of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy but suspended the operation of the injunction until midday August 23rd - the day the parties will again appear in Court.
		Alan Oshlack represented Isobel Coe initially and spent the early part of the hearing trying to get the matter adjourned as Isobel had not been properly served with the papers initiating council's court action and because he was unable to represent her further today because of other trial commitments.
		The hearing was marked by some quite racist, misinformed, and inflammatory affidavit evidence from local police, uni security, and syd uni college residents some of which described Tent Embassy residents as "unsavoury" who caused college residents to feel "threatened and anxious" when walking past the embassy.
	www.lakeeyre.green.net.au /court-updates-page-17-08-00.html (413 words)

	Ausflag - Aboriginal Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Aboriginal Flag was designed by Harold Thomas, an artist and an Aboriginal, in 1971.
		The fl represents the Aboriginal people, the red the earth and their spiritual relationship to the land, and the yellow the sun, the giver of life.
		The Aboriginal flag was first raised in Victoria Square in Adelaide on National Aboriginal Day in 1971, but was adopted nationally by Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in 1972 after it was flown above the Aboriginal "Tent Embassy" outside of the old Parliament House in Canberra.
	www.ausflag.com.au /flags/ab.html (397 words)

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