The Uluru Statement From The Heart - an idea whose time has come | Dean Parkin | TEDxCanberra

[@geoffscammell145]

I was privileged enough to be on the TEDx team for this presentation. The first time I saw this amazing document was backstage, trying to find something to display it on. We were all so excited to actually have Dean be able to present this to the people of Canberra, and the world. Now looking back at the now major historical significance of the document, I wish I had of found something better to display it on. Then I thought that this came from the people, so many hands of all peoples had touched it, all far more important than I ever will be. Then I realised that this IS a DOCUMENT for for All Australians. We should all be able to touch what should be historical document that unites all Australians.

[@source2950]

Dean, as a migrant to Australia , I am outraged that this has taken so long, I’m outraged that this is even a question, I’m outraged that First Nation peoples need to ask for a voice. I am forever grateful to Aboriginal and Torres Islander peoples past and present for allowing me and my family to reside here and call this great land my home too. And I stand with tears in my eyes with the Uluṟu Statement from the Heart.

[@echelon2k8]

Just what the yes campaign needs, more virtue signalling foreigners like you.

[@carolinehaf21]

Many non Indigenous Australians want these reforms and proper recognition with equal sovereignty for our First Nations people. How beautifully quoted - they are all of our ancestors... when will we realise this uluru statement is a document of sharing instead of taking like the current constitution... This is the way forward and we must care about and push for this.

[@allanmoorhead6546]

Sharing what?

[@blox82]

This document is treacherous to Australia. I'll be voting NO.

[@madsdee7803]

@@blox82 I will be too and not being swayed by people who look like first generation Australians with parents from Pakistan like the one in the video and Thomas Mayor with parents from the Philippines and Poland. They know what bandwagon to jump on for perks and now they think they can scam land rights over places they don't even come from.

[@JoD-be3ou]

This is a great talk as I an Australian white man can ultimately admit I am at my best when I have a vision of tomorrow being as productive as today. It is when I am unable to Invision tomorrow I am all but weakened and my prospects claimed by what I call imposter syndrome when inclusion becomes delusional. Support one remedy that fuels the progress of success.

[@LisaGayleDE]

I will be voting yes in the referendum and if it doesn't pass i know you guys will keep fighting and I will support you all. I know you won't give up.

[@Lightning-speed27]

So beautiful. So moving. Standing with you. All gratitude to you all for your tireless dedication to bringing light into a struggle whose end has come. A new dawn is upon us Australia. It is time for us to emerge into the magnificent Nation we are destined to be.

[@ericrochester8835]

Get off the drugs

[@blox82]

no.

[@merrylkeymymysteryschool4806]

Thank you, brilliant talk. Bring on the reforms, ‘a fair and truthful relationships’ and genuine self determination. White Australia has a lot to learn, a lot to listen to. Time to listen and change. Thank you again.

[@agentoz]

Thank you, the best invitation I have had in my lifetime. An invitation to the people of Australia. So beautifully shared, I am taking action.

[@charki40]

Thank you Amba.

[@spello8191]

We have to do better for the acknowledgement for a culture, of the oldest culture! Aboriginal and Torrens Straight deserve this!! Yet Google yet to acknowledge both Aboriginal and Torrens Straight Islanders with any emojis!!

[@Bulltardwin]

The United Nations Statement From The Heart

[@poetry2024]

Thank you Dean Parkin. Your speech from your heart touched mine. Now I sit, shaken. Empty.... except perhaps for a tiny zygote which might inspire a poem or a song. Tomorrow Thomas Mayor is coming to Mullumbimby and I shall hear him speak. We all deserve to have our First Nations Voice enshrined in the constitution and have a Makarrata Commission. Thank you for your eloquence and steady delivery of a very emotional issue.

[@rome2zafferana]

This is an excellent talk. Thankyou for all the work you do for First Nations peoples.

[@mattbox87]

There is a suppressed history of the coal miners strikes in south Gippsland under Curtin. We need to bring everything to surface and remake ourselves in the light of dawn. Truth-telling, I love this. Let's make a stronger Australia.

[@bronwyncustance6932]

4 years later and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are still patiently waiting to complete the job of weaving the ancient traditional past with the future of this country. Again they extend an invitation to the Australian people to remake ourselves as a united nation. I say YES!

[@echelon2k8]

Attempting to grant political privilege to only one group of Australians based on their ancestry is anything but a way to unify the people of a democratic country.

[@thehappydramateacher130]

Powerful to see all those signatures and hear you describe feeling the support of your ancestors standing with you onstage.

[@daveallen9132]

@Dean Parkin, great talk. I believe this is exactly what we need here in Australia. I am looking forward to giving you support and watching your successes.

[@Mevlinous]

13:55 makarrata, it’s right there in the uluru statement but our leaders refuse to acknowledge that is what the voice is about. 14:53 what is self determination, it’s taking responsibility for yourself. It’s not about being given handouts and power. Absolute insult to equality.

[@jacintakeeble7738]

Wonderful 💛 I am with you!! We need to listen to our indigenous peoples 🙏

[@Mark-rh2wi]

The failure of the Referendum was, in part, due to statements like Parkin's, that the Statement was "an invitation to you, the Australian people." Immediately, the authors, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander supporters identify as being separate peoples from the rest of the Australian population. This from the outset was divisive and the majority of Australians saw it as such. To be a unified country and cohesive society , we must identify as one people; united in the common commitment to the country. The continuing perspective to identify and seek change based on race and ancestry will not be, and should not be, embraced by a multicultural nation like Australia.

[@stephkrunic3884]

Thanks for extending the invitation...

[@gwynbetts29]

I’m ready to vote in favour for this referendum. (Me: First generation Australian, Perth WA Noongar Country)

[@wallace09ish]

Wow... very informative

[@glendafrances4773]

Wow...amazing powerful speech....thank you

[@Escekar]

@jns as yours will you...!

[@Escekar]

@jns What don’t you support? And who’s children will hate whom? And for what...? Very vague statements at the moment. Can you elaborate a little?

[@Waywind420]

*Welcome to country* is the most pretentious thing we currently do in Australia. Before every sports game, on every campus, echoing through our parliament. What happens when the indigenous refuse to welcome anyone? Why should we separate people and place such importance distinguishing between races? Your people are better than my people and deserve more for what reason? Why should we respect indigenous culture? that's for them to preserve, cherish and maintain...why mandate everyone else embrace it? Come to think of it, what legitimate benefit does indigenous culture actually give to the world? In a society where legally you can't discriminate by race, how are indigenous-only apprenticeships tolerated? As always, liberal causes are not strewn with truth or fairness or even honesty. ''Voice from the heart'' is a euphemism, what it actually is, is a direct path for unelected people to govern society, based on their race. It's undemocratic, except for the one-time democratic process of installing it by vote. It's similar to electing a royal family, where members don't earn the right to govern us through their merit, they are just born to have authority over us. 😒 Furthermore, what is an indigenous person? Why should someone with 10% indigenous heritage be granted social superiority over the rest? If you want a voice to parliament go and get elected through the democratic system like everyone else (including many ''people of colour'').

[@tun0fun]

Finally, someone who understands the real repercussions of this asinine idea. And on the welcome to country, yes it is just so pretentious and even the most ardent virtue signallers just blaze through it like they are reading terms and conditions at the end of an advertisement.

[@blox82]

V well said! 👍

[@madsdee7803]

Welcome to country was invented by Ernie Dingo in 1976. They use it now to make money and we have to pay it out of misplaced guilt.

[@echelon2k8]

@@madsdee7803 Being payed for treating everyone else as perpetual foreigners in their own country is basically a form of reparations at this point.

[@andychrist2922]

Sorry but what was the idea?

[@logicsconscience]

I you genuinely want to know, I am happy to answer questions for you. Cheers

[@michaelsonsarmiento5943]

The fight is not over. Aboriginal people have lost the battle but will win the war in the end because sovereignty will never be ceded nor extinguished forever and ever!!!

[@warwicklewis8735]

When you claim welfare or use the public health or take advantage of public education it clearly states that these things are only available to Australian citizens. If you have claimed any of these benefits you have acknowledged that you are a citizen of Australia. What was the name of the nation that never ceded sovereignty ?? Who was the sovereign ??

[@australianwoman9696]

​@@warwicklewis8735 Aboriginal peoples did not develop Australia. They lived in the dust & under trees. What did they ever build? You are first nation people but you did nothing with Australia.

[@Violet_901-youtube]

Go brother! Our first indigenous PM ?❤

[@allanmoorhead6546]

It sounds like you just want more of the same structure we always had, which is what has been keeping aboriginals back. More government programs, more funding, more welfare. That's not aboriginals controling their own affairs, that's the Australian government controling them, except with aboriginal politicians and bureaucrats doing it instead of white ones. We already had ATSIC, made up of aboriginals, and it failed so badly everybody agreed for it to be abolished.

[@CHOICEBETWEENFEARANDLOVE]

That’s great, but when are many of them going to stop robbing, fighting and letting their children grow up as criminals? They don’t want to listen to their elders…

[@Mevlinous]

Exactly. They are a troubled people. Not all obviously, many live integrated to Australia living productive meaningful lives. We need more indigenous Australians doing this. But sadly the left doesn’t see it this way, they have a romantic view of indigenous communities, seeing only the cultural practices and ignoring the deep issues of violence, power and dominance of elders, substance abuse, lack of direction due to living in remote areas and subsisting on government handouts, lack of employment due to isolation. If they really cared they would wish them to more fully integrate with society, but truth is those wishing the indigenous regress to their former culture are also haters of this society and it’s goals and what it requires of its adults. To take responsibility for your own survival and providence. The left pushing this movement is a young movement, driven by idealistic youth brainwashed from higher education and universities, who haven’t lived in the real world, who don’t understand the importance of true equality and the need to share the load. They wish the state would support them and anyone else lazy or too incapable to do so.

[@melaniepilgrim1475]

Simply brilliant and beautiful

[@bethanykodeng4550]

Can we please get the link to Uluru for all in the video description and any other information links Dean clearly informed us on?

[@spello8191]

The First Nation deserve better! I’m a non First Nation person but I want a better action! A referendum to change Australia’s constitution has to happen!

[@brontewcat]

I did not understand the importance of the Voice when I first heard about it. I thought a treaty would perhaps be more important.Then gradually understanding dawned. At the time I was living in Timor Leste, a country whose people had been dispossessed of their sovereignty and nationhood in 1975. In 2002 they finally gained independence so longed denied them I often looked at my fellow Timorese travellers on public transport, and saw something that hard to describe- a quiet pride in themselves as their own people, a people who had sovereignty over themselves. Then it dawned the Voice is to Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islanders what independence from Indonesia is to the Timorese. That is why it is so important.

[@SlapPa9]

Shame on the Government of Australia. The leaders of our nation need to embrace and accept the statement whole heartedly without delay. The Government of the day whom have the will to follow through and allow our First Nation's People a voice to parliament enshrined in our constitution will be held in high regard for all of time. This is the low-hanging fruit that is begging to be picked! What are they waiting for? ? I believe there is consensus across Australia for a positive outcome for our First Nation's People.

[@lovechineseforever9434]

ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY WILL DO FOR YOU BUT WHAT YOU WILL DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY

[@chanceryan1757]

The only reason we acknowledge Torres strait islanders is not for the people there but for governmental strategic control of those islands and the waterway they lie within.

[@ruthdgillon7670]

That's right brother 👊💯 Be Strong

[@iangray7904]

This is being used as a power grab

[@LegendLength]

It's also simple to use 'yes' arguments against their own side. Would you support a conservative think tank going into the constitution, with zero detail about the implementation except that it will 'advise'? What if the proposal was renamed 'think of the children'?

[@johnmckenzie-rm3jh]

Ur one of many, like Pearson, Tomas, Langton etc lost to vote! Australians just can't vote on blank paper! 😕

[@chrystabelsuares1577]

Heard this Talk three years ago. Enjoying it again. The Time is Right for a Constitutional Voice in Parliament.

[@blox82]

The time will never be right to divide Australia by race & perpetuate the grievance culture that is holding us all back. Vote NO to this terrible voice insanity

[@majorfeelgoodrecords2740]

He seems like a very educated handsome young biracial Australian.

[@YaMumsSpecialFriend]

Not long now mate. Labor is back with Anthony Albanese in charge and the Voice from the Heart will hopefully be imbedded in our constitution sooner than later. ❤️

[@fbryce1ify]

it was howard that first bought the discussion to the table, and abbott who endorsed the Recognise Campaign, after consultation formed the Referendum Council so this has not been a Labor thing but an everybody thing.

[@blox82]

Hopefully NOT! 🤞

[@josephcarabetta1494]

It would be more authentic if he donned tribal costume. And Maybe used first nation language. Long live Australia

[@jamiequinn5864]

Australia needs this.

[@warwicklewis8735]

So how does stopping people climbing a rock help with anything ?? It's just a deflection from dealing with your real problems.

[@gbhemming]

No truer words have ever been said

[@HDR422]

We are restricted in our movement all over world. In a church we can not walk ontop of an alter. It is about respect. We know now the offence of walking on the rock, in the past we never did.

[@warwicklewis8735]

@@HDR422 nonsense. It is a rock not a church. A natural feature not built for purpose. There was never any spiritual reason for not walking on it. In the past aboriginals had been more than happy to lead groups of tourists up the climb. This is nothing but a case of sour grapes and indigenous activists flexing their political muscles. They have taken a national icon away from the Australian people. They have invented offence that never existed. Respect is earned not demanded.

[@jasminetyana2426]

You invite us to walk with you for the cost of how many hundreds of billions of dollars? Makarrata means treaty. Treaty means .... reparations, a financial settlement (such as seeking a percentage of GDP), .." Quoted from the Uluru Statement of The Heart. Thank-you for the invite but I can't afford to walk with you. Taxpayers are having enough of a hard time as it is. We can't afford hundreds of billions of dollars to go for a walk.

[@pamplemoussejus7583]

Wish all the naysayers who’ve bought the the fiction that the voice process somehow wasn’t thorough or representative would watch this talk.

[@anEyePhil]

When Australia becomes a Republic, the President should be a First Australian Elder, nominated by the authentic original Sovereign peoples, with a role similar to current Governor General, but representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait original Sovereignty, not the British Crown.

[@edwin5419]

That's actually not a bad idea

[@gaylordcomic]

....great story. I'm not I'd love that in practice.

[@lordpolish2727]

Ah yes because its very fair for a group representing 3% of the population to be automatically given the position as head of state, just because his people were in the land originally (ignoring the fact Australias founding fathers were all white and almost everything in the country was made by white people)

[@gbhemming]

That is a terrible idea

[@HermitSinghdoctus]

Superb suggestion ! It would show long overdue respect, and a tiny step towards atonement

[@fbryce1ify]

form what you want to go into the constitution, show it works, then put it in.

[@consultingenvironmentalser450]

Why don’t you have the Uluru Statement step into parliamentary representation: for me that representation is important combining Australia’s needs. Please consider.

[@geoffscammell145]

They tried that. This document was presented to the House of Representatives... And thrown back in their faces...

[@twentytwo3402]

Do you know what Federalism is?

[@charki40]

Yes on the 1st January,1901 Australian officially came into being as the Commonwealth of Australia. The real Australia Day.

[@Imasheep_baa_baaa_baaaa]

this guy is deluded...he doesn't even know what the ULURU staement was about....embarrassing

[@damien9761]

I’m an American sitting in my kitchen 2 days ago from this post, I was drinking cup of coffee watching a video on KZbin when all of sudden an image appeared 8’ away from me. I thought my eyes was seeing light spots but it was still dark outside, still looking at the image it was a rectangular picture and inside the picture was Uluru mountain with a crescent moon to the right of it. Does anyone know why an American had a vision of Uluru, and what it means?

[@goddammitboi]

You gotta drink more water bud

[@warwicklewis8735]

This post is 2 years old. Your post is from 6 months ago. That would leave a deficit of 18 months ?? Also Ayers Rock ( as it was commonly known to the world's population, outside of a small tribal community) is no "mountain" it is at best a large hill but more importantly it is a rock.

[@psychepseudonym2137]

This is no mistake hug your loved ones and teather your soul

[@edwin5419]

Yes, it means lay off the shrooms for a bit

[@geoffscammell145]

Have you ever dreamt of past lives??

[@harveythomasdolan1146]

I know it's inane but did anyone else initially think it said 'Oliver Gence' at the beginning?

[@MrMrMuhummad]

🥲🥹 ALBO won so this WILL be done 🥹🥹

[@edwin5419]

It'll be put to the Australian people. Whether it succeeds or not is up to all of us.

[@josephwinder6878]

Meaningless piece of paper.