Uncle Dennis Walkers Speech - Treaty, Freehold and Radical Title

Contribution to discussion time

Inaugural Black GST public meeting

Trades Hall, Carlton, 18 May 2005.

Dennis Walker: I was here as an observer, to see what's going on here, and its good to see that some people are conscious enough to know what's going on around the place.

But what I would like to do, is to take it further than just being conscious about what's going on around the place and protesting about it. To the point where we do something in terms of solving those things that are happening, despite what they do. And in terms of that I just like to clear up one point in terms of my perception of what our land rights is all about, in terms of threatening your freehold title.

My way of looking at it is we don't threaten the freehold title, what we do is threaten the radical title of this country. If any of yous know law, the Government pretends to hold that radical title... pretends, illegally to hold the radical title to country. It is not their radical title, it is ours, they've taken it by force of arms, illegally without consent and Robbie [Thorpe]'s already told you about the consent factor.

In terms of securing your freehold title, I would suggest that you treaty in with us so that we can realize our radical title and validate your freehold title. If you can work that out at law, that's what it's all about. In terms of doing that, I've devised a treaty mechanism whereby you can treaty in and I'm saying because Cook was instructed by his Sovereign to get consent from the Natives, and they didn't. They came in, tried to genocide with small-pox so there would be Terra Nullius, their 'wet dream' would come true and it would be peaceful settlement, but it didn't happen quite like that ... but the genocide goes on regardless.

And as long as we are denied our sovereignty... our radical title, your freehold title is under threat, not from us, but from the environmental madness of the government who has stolen it from us. This country is going dead fast, like you're not just genociding us you're genociding country too. And yous are going to suffer the same consequences, so what I'm saying is in terms of doing treaty with us, now, so that we can realize our radical title, you save yourselves in the long run. And if you want to do that, let's do it.

Thank you, bye!

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