"Everything that we have been fighting for over years of our activism has been  for the  rights to be able to make decisions about what happens on our countries. .  My Country is been raped and pillaged and plundered by mining corporations  for coal in the Hunter Valley Region and for gas in Wangkumurra Country ....."

 "We have been fighting for the  rights to be able to stop those industries  from destroying our land and destroying what is precious to us, taking away  our rights of possession and rights of  ownership and rights of  governance over those countries. We wish to restore our rights over those over those countries . We have a sovereign right that has not ceded..."

 "If  non indigenous people support and help establish  structural foundations of a sovereign governance,  that allows us to be able to able invite non indigenous people to collaborate on how we best proceed  further  on a journey  that allows us to protect and preserve our countries and our living envirionment and restore our communal values again"                           Uncle Albert Hartnett

 Guests:     Uncle  Albert Hartnett a  Wangkumurra man, and   long time Aboriginal activist and rights defender was a guest   at the Australian Student Environment Network Training Camp.                 

                   Sylvia Gunn from the Australian Student Environment Network

LINKS

  Australian Student Environment Network: https://asen.org.au/

The next Students of Sustainability "SOS 2020"  giant environment conference will be from January 13-17 in Sydney. 

This week's show is #1215 and was produced by Bec Horridge