Radio RATA using Paul’s interview to respond to the Central Western Daily’s reporting on Paul and his arrest, overlaying the text of the article with our footage and yarn with Paul on Wiradjuri Country in so-called orange.
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00:00Little old me, I'm a nobody, but I'm a proud Radjuri fella.
00:05This is home to the Radjuri nation of New South Wales, where we are today.
00:12It was 2,000 acres, Crown land, vacant, sitting here at Orange.
00:18I took possession, I occupied my lands.
00:24At the end of the day, yeah Roscoe, they did arrest me, the local police.
00:29When I went to court, there was about four or five Gunkurris.
00:33They said, yeah, Anka, it don't matter what happens to us today.
00:38What you've done just makes us so proud, you know.
00:42It kind of just instilled in me, this is what I'm doing it for.
00:48It's not about getting Crown or Government approval, and that includes never ceding our sovereignty.
00:58And we actually fought.
01:00We fought the invaders, and it's documented by them.
01:07The original grant was given out by the same Governor of Brisbane, who declared war and
01:15martial law on the Radjuri.
01:17This is about vacant lands, that are our lands, that have never been ceded, in writing.
01:26We've got to change the system, we've got to change the whole system on it, so it's for
01:31our next generations.
01:32Our next generations.
01:33Yeah, we've got to change.
01:34Yeah, we've got to change.