ALERT: Treaty trickery
Channel: Enlightning Productions
Date: 2022-03-23

Alert to treaty trickery:
First Nations can only treaty with the British Crown, 
not its agents e.g. State governments

During the Q&A discussion of the "WHERE TO FROM HERE? Decolonisation and Sovereign inherent right ot self-determination" conference (27/1/2022) probing questions were answered with lively discussion concerning the next phase of the Sovereignty Movement on the 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Embassy. 

Prof Gary Lilienthal affirmed the risks of the trickery around the current ‘treaty’ processes, since treaties can only be negotiated with the British Crown. 
He said, 
“First, of all, you don’t do a Treaty with somebody’s agent. You would not do a Treaty with a State government in this system. They are only an agent of the Federal Government, which is an agent of the Crown. You either do a Treaty with the Crown that has enforceable provisions or you don’t do a Treaty.
Secondly, you don’t just ‘do a Treaty’ with them because they are completely untrustworthy and have hundreds of years of unequal treaties ….” 


220127 SU WHERE TO FROM HERE TREATY CAUTION Gary