(1of20) Matthew Ryan, NLC, Not Invited to National Convention, Uluru
Channel: Sovereign Union
Date: 2017-05-31

Background: Complaint by Isobelle Anderson to June Oscar, ATSI Social Justice Commissioner:


I contacted the Referendum Council to be advised that these regional dialogue meetings were by invitation only. I asked how do you get an invitation and I was advised that usually about 100 people are invited and that 60% of the invitees are Indigenous who work in community organisations and 40% of the invitees are Indigenous who work in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations. 

Ten delegates will be picked from these regional dialogue meetings to go to the National Convention at Uluru on 24-26 May 2017. Are these ten delegates proficient enough in Constitutional Law and Imperial Law to speak about the issues that are being talked about in the community they are representing? The ten delegates chosen from the Cairns regional dialogue meetings will have to represent all indigenous people from the Cairns and Tablelands area as well as the Cape York areas. 

I said that the Referendum Council have to consult with the general community but that they are shutting people out and that this is discriminating against the grassroots Indigenous community who want to have a say. I said that I would like to make a complaint and they told me that they do not receive complaints. I asked for the phone number of the Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet. I dialled this number to make a complaint and they told me that they do not receive complaints but to go back to the Referendum Council website to join the discussion. 

I told them that I want to make a complaint to them (The Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet) and then to forward this complaint onto The Commonwealth Ombudsman, not to join in on an on-line discussion. Again, they told me they do not accept complaints but to join the discussion on-line. If these people are employed under The Australian Public Service Amendment Act 2013 than I have a right to complain about them and to The Commonwealth Ombudsman.

To make a complaint to the Ombudsman in Canberra, I have to lodge a complaint with the Commonwealth Agency first. I cannot do this because they will not allow me to. The Reconciliation Act is not in force anymore and is replaced by the Australian Public Service Amendment Act 2013. 
So I am lodging a complaint with The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commission (ATSI Social Justice Commission). I was advised by the Human Rights Commission to do this. The Australian Public Service Amendment Act 2013 allows me to make a complaint to the ATSI Social Justice Commissioner and this Act also consolidates with The Ombudsman Act.
If the goal of The Referendum Council is to recognise and empower Indigenous People and to amend V, section 5(xxvi) to insert a constitutional prohibition against racial discrimination, then this is a circus joke, because the Referendum Council themselves are discriminating against grassroots Indigenous People to be shut out of Community Consultations. They are handpicking Indigenous People who may not have a background or understanding of Law, be it Domestic Law or International Law. 

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The lack of consultation, lack of participation and lack of engagement does not promote democratic inclusion and improved accountability and goes against the above quoted Australian Human Rights Commission Report and also the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) especially Article 19, and to be consulted for "legislative or administrative decisions that may affect them".

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/formal-complaint-against-referendum-council-dialogue-processes-national-convention-uluru


More info:

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/perfecting-trickery-referendum-council

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/wrong-legal-advice-professors-referendum-and-sovereignty

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/murrawarri-nations’-analysis-uluru-statement-heart-uluru-statement

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/wrong-legal-advice-professors-referendum-and-sovereignty

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/governments-attempting-counter-sovereignty-movement-understanding-when-we-are-winning

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/beware-programmed-de-aboriginalised-aboriginals

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/referendum-councils-constitutional-dialogue-processes-fatally-flawed

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/formation-first-nations-renewable-energy-alliance

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/grassroots-aboriginal-movement-nsw-squashes-recognise

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/1-2-3-sovereignty-thats-how-easy-it-can-be

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/government-asking-you-blindly-vote-changes-referendum-without-even-clarifying-final-wording

http://nationalunitygovernment.org/governments-attempting-to-steal-our-original-sovereign-citizenship-and-independence