Aboriginal Provisional Government
The Aboriginal Provisional Government (APG) is an organization founded in Australia on July 16, 1990 , with the aim of creating a government and state of their own for the Aborigines . In order to prepare for the establishment of this state, the organizational form of a provisional government was chosen.
founding
The founders of the APG (Bob Weatherall, Geoff Clarke, Josie Crawshaw, Michael Mansell , Kathy Craigie and other delegates from all federal states of Australia) assume that the previous programs for Aborigines with regard to health care, assistance for nutrition and general care, education, housing and if there are problems with violating the law, not solving the fundamental problem that the Aborigines need their own law. They claim that until 1967 the Aborigines were not recognized as human beings, they could not vote until then and there were only a few Aboriginal speakers. In the period from 1967 to 1976 there was a significant change, because in every state there were now Aboriginal Legal Services and in 1976 the land rights of the Northern Territory were recognized by the federal parliament, the National Aboriginal Conference (NAC) was founded and this gave the Aborigines an effective voice for the first time in her opinion.
requirements
The APG names four requirements why it is possible to form your own government and state:
- There is a separate Aboriginal law, which is no longer determined by the whites, because the right that the whites gave the Aborigines is also defined by the whites in such a way that it changes back into the law of the whites over time.
- The Aborigines are not a minority in white society, but are a separate society and can decide about their own affairs.
- Since the Aborigines have received their community over long periods of time, the Aboriginal communities are able to run their own organizations.
- There is no reason to prevent the Aborigines from building their own state system. All they need is an organization, the Aboriginal Government.
planning
Founding of the state
In its programmatic statements, the APG unequivocally intends to found a separate Aboriginal state:
- Let it be clearly understood: the Aboriginal Provisional Government wants an Aboriginal state to be established, with all of the essential control being vested back into Aboriginal communities. The land involved would essentially be crown land but in addition there would be some land which would be needed by the Aboriginal community other than crown land.
- (We say clearly: The Aboriginal Provisional Government wants to establish an Aboriginal state equipped with all the essential instruments of control that the Aboriginal community needs. Our land will essentially consist of crown land, but we may have more land for the Aborigines - need a community that is not a crown land.)
Legal opinion
The right of the whites in the new state is only valid if the Aborigines agree:
- The laws of the white man would not apply unless the Aboriginal communities wanted it. There would be no right of the police to come onto Aboriginal land unless it was by agreement with the Aboriginal community. In exchange for Aboriginal people giving up to perhaps half of the country to white Australians, there would need to be a compensation package.
- (The law of the white man will only apply if the Aborigines so wish. There will be no law for the police to come into Aboriginal land unless there is an agreement with the Aboriginal community. In exchange with the people of Aborigines will give perhaps half of the land to the white Australians and some compensation would have to be agreed.)
Paths to founding a state
In order to found their own state, the Aborigines should
- Organize information events and see yourself as part of the coming Aboriginal government
- Disseminate their ideas and deal constructively with other ideas
- Pay fees to APG on a realistic, determinable basis
- receive payments from the whites for the occupied land on a pension basis, which corresponds to the financial possibilities of the landowners.