Join Us in the Frontier Wars Commemoration 9am 25/4/25
Media Alert 15 April 2025
Professor Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the founding four of the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic calls out for many people to join the Commemorative March for the Frontier Wars and Conflicts on 25 April 2025.
It has been 15 years that we have marched up Anzac Parade on Anzac Day highlighting the need to recognise the frontier conflicts.
Video: Moving Truth https://vimeo.com/214091130
Atrocities perpetrated against First Nations Peoples in Australia are well recorded beginning with the Dutch in Western Australia. It was the British who embedded terrorism with Governor Phillip’s Orders to kill Aboriginal people, severe their heads and put the heads on stakes along the defined Limit of Location of the colony, with the words,
“Instill in them an universal terror.”
What arose from the colonialists was the constant stealing and abuse of the local Aboriginal women, which in turn triggered an Aboriginal response of a military kind. To understand that response one only needs to read the colonial history associated with Pemulwuy, of the Bidjegal clan of the Dharug in Botany Bay and surrounds.
Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s illegal 1816 Proclamation created a right for colonialists to kill Aboriginal people, including the elderly, women and children, whom he described as unavoidable collateral damage.
Then in 1824 Martial Law was proclaimed by Governor Brisbane against the Wiradjuri because of Windradyne’s attacks on the illegal squatters inside the Wiradjuri territories. As the colonies expanded history shows that there are significant Aboriginal leaders all over this continent who organised and fought against the illegal colonial regimes.
Destructive elements they sent against us were gunpowder and brandy. As a consequence of our Old Ones fighting guerilla war campaigns, the squattocracy developed thier policy – for every one white person killed we will kill as many of you as we can. Those who survived the killings became political prisoners locked in chains far from their country, others were tied together by neck chains, walked out onto a small reef off the coast, tied to an anchor and drowned by the surging tides.
To say that Frontier Conflict commemorations do not fit with the Anzac memorial cannot be accepted. It is a story that has to be told and remembered. Our people did not have to leave these shores to fight in a war. The colonial administrators of England, who were governed by the British Admiralty, understood the need to avoid declaring war against the First Nations of Australia, because of future ramifications. The consequences of admitting that they were wars would mean that the English monarchs at the time would have been obligated to negotiate peace pacts and settlements with the conquered Peoples. This would have made it impossible for the courts of today to ignore our legal rights that flow from being conquered Peoples. Nevertheless, as unconquered Nations and Peoples our unceded sovereign rights remain, and the laws of the ancient kingdom remain. Thus the Crown does not have any authority to alter our Laws and customs, nor to interfere with them, even under their own law. The High Court decision in Mabo did not address this question because it was not asked in the original application.
Governor Lachlan Macquarie realised that his Proclamation of 1816 posed a serious threat against the British monarchs’ claims to dominion over Australia, because Macquarie’s Martial Law creates a legal dilemma for the monarch’s right to claim dominion over what they were trying to call a land without any other occupants. The Proclamations of Governors Macquarie and Brisbane erode any pretences of an unoccupied country. Mabo also created more dilemmas for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples than any rights they espouse were given to us from the recognition of Native Title.
The RSL organisers of Anzac Day, as well as the governing body of the War Memorial, are concerned that giving formal recognition to the Frontier Conflicts and armed resistance by the First Nations Peoples in Australia will indeed have serious ramifications.
They know it and I know it.
Their efforts to avoid recognition of the Frontier Conflicts are significantly more important than the public realises.
We will never let his country forget that our Peoples have suffered from great atrocities, which to this day cause enormous human suffering.
See: www.australianfrontierconflicts.com.au
The War Memorial also fails to acknowledge how the heads of our people being used as trophies, in gargoyles on their main building at the Pool of Reflection and the Eternal Flame, is an outrageous insult and reminds us that we are still seen as lesser than the coloniser in our own lands.
See: video “Heads Down!! Heads Down: https://vimeo.com/230946962
Professor Ghillar, Michael Anderson
Convenor of Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia
and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic
ghillar29@gmail.com, 0499 080 660 www.sovereignunion.mobi