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Arrest warrant issued for Tasmanian Aboriginal elder but 81yo says he doesn't recognise 'colonial' courts (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In short: Aboriginal elder Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta was arrested in March for protesting against native logging in Tasmania. He says he won't recognise the "colonial" courts.

He bailed to appear on June 3, but a warrant was issued for his arrest on Monday after he failed to appear in the Hobart Magistrates Court.

What's next? Mr Everett says he expects to be arrested again, but he'll have to be "pushed" into the court — where he intends to question its sovereignty over Aboriginal people.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

and are recognised as such by a fair chunk of overseas countries

Which? Wikipedia says they're "reaching out to countries like Russia and Venezuela to establish diplomatic relations", but there's nothing in there or on the cited article suggesting they received any response. Searching Google restricted to their official website for the words "recognise", "acknowledge", "embassy", "relation", and a few conjugations of those words all turned up zero results. They do seem to have had friendly discussions with federal ministers, but no formal recognition, and they don't seem to be using their own vehicle registrations any more. (Side note: that last article is a particularly good one for getting a full broad picture of what it is they really want and the situations that lead to them being as they are today.)

Note: I am not attempting to make any kind of "ought" argument here. Merely an "is" one. And it does not seem true to claim that the Yidingi Nation "is" recognised in any official way, as far as I could find.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Sir facts and logic have no place in a lemmy comment thread