On Monday 26 May at 4:15 pm at the Federal Court 305 William St, Melbourne. Uncle Robbie will be appearing regarding his court case against the Attorney General of so-called ‘Australia’. In the newly announced cabinet Albanese has replaced Mark Dreyfus with former communications minister Michelle Rowland. We are yet to see how this will impact the legal case.
Join Uncle Robbie in solidarity at 3.30pm out the front before he heads in to Court Room 8D on Level 8 where he’ll petition the judge that all further court mentions for this case should be held at Camp Sovereignty. This is an ongoing fight to get the colonial law system to recognise that on these lands, it is not their law that governs Country and its people, it is First Nations law. As Uncle writes in his affidavit: “You need to come through our law and it starts … at Camp Sovereignty”. The previous refusal of this is just another example of Australia’s complicity in genocide. Be there to back the TRUE Law, Aboriginal Law.
In the first half of 2024 Uncle Robbie filed for constitutional declarations protecting sacred sites and cultural practices, including the right to maintain fires at Camp Sovereignty. This case highlights what Uncle Robbie describes as the stark denial of Aboriginal sovereignty, an injustice embedded in Australia’s legal framework since colonisation. This dismissal of Aboriginal rights, Uncle Robbie argues, perpetuates the conditions that fuel genocidal actions and the erosion of Aboriginal culture and law.
The first hearing was held on Monday 11 November at the Commonwealth Court, Level 8, Federal Court of Australia, 305 William St, Melbourne. The hearing was well attended but Justice McEvoy did not use the opportunity to address any of the three “interlocutory” applications filed in Court so far:
– to add the Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus as a respondent (12 July 2024).
– to disqualify Judge McEvoy (15 July 2024).
– asking the Court to sit at Camp Sovereignty (8 August 2024)
For more details have a look at the Case Documentation part of the website.
If you can’t make it in person, the hearing can be observed by any member of the public at the Federal Court in Melbourne located at 305 William Street in a courtroom to be specified on the Court’s Daily List. Members of the public wishing to observe the hearing remotely should contact the Chambers of Justice McEvoy by email at associate.mcevoyj@fedcourt.gov.au by 11:00am AEDT on the day of the hearing. Only persons who have been provided with the link by chambers will be admitted to Microsoft Teams to observe the hearing.
