Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Law Boss Joseph Roe and Premier Colin Barnett at odds over Walmadany | The Stringer

Law Boss Joseph Roe and Premier Colin Barnett at odds over Walmadany | The Stringer
Phillip Roe

Mr Roe said the Kimberley should be kept free from industry and its effects and that no processing of LNG onshore was appropriate.

“Premier Barnett thinks he is now the owner of our sacred sites and of our burial sites. But how he secured this acquisition is a matter for inquiry. Everyone knows he bullied and dictated and it is not just conspiracy talk, it was there for the whole of the nation to see.”
“There should be a Royal Commission. I have said all along that there should have been one, and I still say there should be a Royal Commission into Premier Barnett’s acquisition of our land, our heritage. The Australian people should not sit idly by and watch more of us steamrolled.”
“Furthermore, the acquisition does not mean he is allowed to build any industries. He needs to go through process and negotiations but that’s who he is, pushing what he wants while disregarding all of us as he did with threatening our peoples to sign or that he would take the land.”
“Is this the sort of Premier the Australian people want? Is this the sort of Government the Australian people want? Is this the sort of Australia people are proud of? Is this how non-Indigenous Australians want to see us treated?”
“We stood in his way with Walmadan Tent Embassy and torpedoed the gas hub, and we will stand again in the way.”

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