Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to table a document.

Leave not granted.

Pursuant to contingent notice of motion standing in my name, I move:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent me moving that the documents be tabled.

I've been given some documents that are very important for this parliament to have on record. They're from a number of traditional owners across the country. I think they are relevant to this parliament going forward, given that we've got the totem of the kangaroo in this room and the totem of the emu in this room, and I am unaware of any consent given to utilise totems of our people in the colonial project.

I've been asked by these elders to provide this to the government and to the parliament to have on record official law notice from grandmothers of law—the superior law, law of the land and of the continent known as Terra Australis and Australia. The senior tribal law man, Uncle Juma of the Larrakia, has served notices that are now in silent acquiescence by the Australian corporation. We know the government, which is a corporation, is registered in the US through an ABN. This whole parliament has an ABN, and the government has an ABN, and it's somewhere overseas. That's how the colonial project does its illegal occupation in this country, basically.

This document has fingerprints, and it has customary law notice. It also comes from the United Tribal Countries Land Alliance. It's a custodial tribal law council made up of self-governing original tribal countries from this continent, known as Terra Australis or Australia, that have reconvened their ancient pactums through their shared languages, Dreaming and songlines, which connect all tribes on this continent and beyond. They've re-established the original tribal councils and made public announcements. They are trading with international counterparts and countries as they are recognised as kings and queens of their own tribes, rather than the colonial king that this parliament refers to all the time.

So there have been a number of High Court proceedings in relation to the custodial tribal law council, and this is about putting this on the record to be an official account. It has been sent to the Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization. It has been acknowledged by that organisation. I think that, for the opposition, or the Libs, to not allow this important information to be tabled is very disrespectful when it's part of truth-telling in this country.

I seek the Senate's support for these elders and these true custodians of this country, in having the respect to provide this information to the Senate and to the parliament for your information. It's a statement of truths and it's a notice to principal in notice to agent. You need to know about the emu and you need to know about the kangaroo that you wear on your lapels and where they come from, the stories that they belong to and the country that they belong to. They certainly don't belong in this place; it's an act of treason and theft.

Ross Cadell (NSW, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I know that a lot of this is available online on some government sites. The document may have some valid points, and I don't take that away. Overall, as a document, it contains many claims that are not fully tested and maintains all sorts of things that would belong, if this were America, in the sovereign citizen movement. The entire document is not fully coherent. Whilst it does maintain some of the things as a single document, it looks to be the purpose of some of the contributors to this to serve it on the Parliament of Australia rather than to have any deliberative process or thoughts. So that is why we will not be supporting the tabling of this document.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the motion to suspend standing orders as moved by Senator Thorpe be agreed to.

Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I table the documents relating to the trademarking of the sacred emblems of the First Peoples of this continent.