The Legacy of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and Sovereign Citizen Thinking

On October 14, Australians will vote in a referendum on a simple question: should Indigenous peoples be invited to form an advisory council—a Voice—to Parliament? 

It seemed like a shoe-in “Yes”—before the issue was FUBARed by a coalition of antivax, anti lockdown, Q-adjacent white sovereign citizens who believe that they are the true victims of colonization. 

Professor Tyson Yunkaporta of Apalech clan joins Matthew to discuss the complexities of this history—including how some vulnerable Indigenous folks have been lured into supporting the “No” vote and providing cover for libertarian and white supremacist agendas.

Yunkaporta is the founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne AUS, author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (2019) and released just this past week: Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking. He’s also the host of the excellent free range podcast The Other Others. 

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Show Notes

Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University

Referendum 202

Conspiracy theories are derailing the Yes vote w/ Tyson Yunkaporta 

Voice pamphlets: false claims and conspiracy theories distributed across Australia | Indigenous voice to parliament

How a soap opera star pushed a conspiracy theory linking the Voice to Parliament to a UN takeover 

Key voice battleground South Australia is ‘leaning to no’, campaign volunteers say | Indigenous voice to parliament

View The Statement - Uluru Statement from the Heart 

Aboriginal Tent Embassy — 'the guys who woke up Australia' — marks its 50th anniversary

So-Called Sovereign Settlers: Settler Conspirituality and Nativism in the Australian Anti-Vax Movement

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