The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. Ellen Duffy
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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy – a web site of First Nations protest in Canberra, Australia – marks its fiftieth anniversary this 12 months. On this episode of The Dialog Weekly podcast, we hear about its historical past and the way the continuing protest has influenced a brand new era of Indigenous activism.
Plus, new analysis into how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the lives of younger individuals born into poverty around the globe – and their job prospects.
On the morning of January 26, 1972, 4 younger Aboriginal males left Sydney for the Australian capital, Canberra. Once they arrived, they sat down on the lawns outdoors parliament home, erected a seaside umbrella and held up an indication that mentioned “Aboriginal embassy”. They have been protesting in opposition to a speech by the federal government, which dismissed hopes for Aboriginal land rights.
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A brief historical past of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy – an indelible reminder of unceded sovereignty
For a lot of the following 50 years, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy has stored up a presence on the garden in entrance of what’s now Outdated Parliament Home in Canberra. It has grow to be an emblem of an everlasting combat for Indigenous sovereignty in Australia. It’s additionally survived assaults and controversies, most lately from a gaggle calling themselves the “Unique Sovereigns” who tried to hijack the Tent Embassy.
On this episode of The Dialog Weekly podcast, Carissa Lee, First Nations and public coverage editor at The Dialog in Australia, yarns with two Indigenous researchers in regards to the enduring place the Tent Embassy performs within the combat for Indigenous land rights and justice.
Bronwyn Carlson is a professor of Indigenous research and director of the Centre for World Indigenous Futures at Macquarie College in Sydney. “Whereas the Tent Embassy is primarily an emblem of land rights, it means a lot extra,” she says. “It’s truly an emblem in opposition to the facility that’s unlawfully in place throughout this continent that continues to oppress Indigenous individuals and deny us our rights as sovereign peoples to this place.”
Lynda-June Coe, a PhD candidate at Macquarie College, has household ties to the Tent Embassy and first visited as a baby within the late Nineteen Eighties. “I can keep in mind my aunties and uncles standing up having very fiery, very strong conversations with different First Nations individuals across the hearth,” says Coe. She says the Tent Embassy nonetheless exists right this moment as a result of “we refuse to go away, we refuse to die out”. Coe’s aunt, Jenny Munro, additionally talks to us on the Tent Embassy web site in Canberra about her continued involvement within the protest web site right this moment.
This episode of The Dialog Weekly is supported by the UK/Australia Season Patrons Board, the British Council and the Australian Authorities as a part of the UK/Australia Season, which centres on the theme Who Are We Now? The season’s programme displays on the 2 international locations’ shared historical past, explores their present relationship, and imagines their future collectively.
In our second story on this episode, we hear how the pandemic has modified the panorama of financial alternative for individuals of their twenties. Since 2001, Younger Lives, a examine run by the College of Oxford within the UK, has been following the lives of two cohorts of younger individuals born into poverty in India, Peru, Vietnam and Ethiopia.
Till the pandemic, the researchers largely had a excellent news story to inform about how life was bettering for the youthful generations of their examine. However the pandemic has set issues again – specifically job alternatives for younger individuals. Catherine Porter, director of the Younger Lives examine, talks us by way of a few of their newest outcomes – and what they reveal in regards to the gender employment hole for younger individuals within the wake of the pandemic. (Hear from 33m46s)
This episode of The Dialog Weekly was produced by Mend Mariwany and Gemma Ware, with sound design by Eloise Stevens. Reporting from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra by Ellen Duffy. Our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. You could find us on Twitter @TC_Audio, on Instagram at theconversationdotcom or by way of e mail. You can even signal as much as The Dialog’s free day by day e mail right here.
Newsclips on this episode from ABC Information, 7News Australia and ABC Australia.
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Disclosure statements of the researchers interviewed on this episode:
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is a web site of cultural and political significance for Lynda-June Coe and members of her household. Among the Aboriginal activists concerned within the 1972 protest are her Elders, Aunties and Uncles.
Bronwyn Carlson doesn’t work for, seek the advice of, personal shares in or obtain funding from any firm or organisation that will profit from this text, and has disclosed no related affiliations past their educational appointment.
The Younger Lives examine at present receives funding from UK Authorities (FCDO), Echidna Giving, Packard Basis, Medical Analysis Council, NIH. Catherine Porter has beforehand acquired funding from ESRC, WIDER, Inter-American Improvement Financial institution, the World Financial institution and British Academy.
