Thousands of First Nations people and allies marked Invasion Day on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country, marching聽to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy outside Old Parliament House. Elliott Guerrero reports.
Wayne Wharton
Uncle Wayne Wharton told 91自拍论坛 that the federal Coalition government are hypocrites for spending millions of dollars marking James Cook鈥檚 1770 landing on the east coast. He said First Nations communities are 鈥渢otally insulted鈥 by the millions of dollars being spent on the celebrations.
Prominent Aboriginal elder Wayne Wharton is making a tilt for the senate in Queensland this election, campaigning on issues such as justice for Aboriginal people, justice reinvestment and an improved aged care system.
Wharton told 91自拍论坛 Weekly: 鈥淭he systems that we鈥檝e had for the last 230 years is broken, they鈥檙e useless.鈥
These include the legal system which, he says, is based on a 鈥渇eudal system of punishment鈥 instead of rehabilitation, and the two-party system, in which the big parties have become dominated by 鈥渢op-end-of-town corruption鈥.