We will keep the fire burning and demand the government and police to protect the safety of our people and the sacred lands we gather on.

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This is about justice, accountability, and protecting our communities from the growing threat of far-right extremism and terrorism.

When a racialised community and place of worship is targeted, it is a hate crime.

It must be investigated as such by Vic Police and AFP, with the same seriousness as an attack on a synagogue or a church.

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In the NT, First Peoples are under sustained attack by this racist CLP government who are destroying Country, locking up so many of our kids, and undermining justice at every level.

The federal government must step in and use its powers to pull the violent CLP into line.

How many more deaths in custody will it take for this government to act?

Silence and inaction kills.

No more delays, no more deaths.

When incarceration and deaths in custody happen disproportionately to our people, how can that ever be seen as anything other than suspicious?

Make no mistake: deaths in custody are part of the ongoing genocide waged against our people.

Passing away at the age of 30?
25 deaths in custody, this year alone?
At least 610 deaths in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission?
And not a single police or prison officer ever held accountable?

That sounds suspicious too.

The WA Department of Justice claims "there were no suspicious circumstances" involved in his death.

But dying in custody? That sounds suspicious to me.

As the fight for justice continues, we remember the unwavering strength of Yolngu resistance – guided by the spirit of the land, its laws, our ancestors, and our unceded Sovereignty.

Sixty years on, our land continues to be colonised.

Mining companies continue to bypass our decision-making, and we are still fighting for Free, Prior and Informed Consent.

Though the demands were ignored, the petitions introduced First Peoples’ Sovereignty and connection to Country into the colonial legal framework and added huge momentum to the ongoing fight for land rights around the country.

It was the first time documents representing First Peoples’ relationship to land, laws, and ways of knowing were presented to the Parliament of so-called Australia.

It parliamentary inquiry - the first petitions in our history to spark an immediate parliamentary response.

In response came the Yirrkala Bark petitions: one petition on bark, another on paper - signed by selected Yolngu men and women who asserted Sovereign custodianship of the land, called for Yolngu consultation and compensation, and demanded recognition.

The bark petitions protested the aluminium mining approved by successive governments through the 1950s and 60s, permitting mining companies to infiltrate Yirrkala Country and decimate the land.

No consultation. No warning. Just destruction.

The government has a choice: protect cultural rights and First Peoples’ data sovereignty — or cave to tech giants hungry for free labour and profit.

To the government we say: our culture is not yours to give away.

We must have a say in how it’s used.

First Peoples must be respected as rights-holders, not treated as data sources.

Any use of our culture must be based on consent, control and compensation.

Without that, AI becomes just another tool of colonial exploitation.

The Productivity Commission has suggested changes copyright law to let tech giants freely use creative work to train AI.

This would allow exploitation of First Peoples’ intellectual and cultural property.

Our culture is not “content” for governments to hand to tech companies.