IT is with a heavy heart that I put pen to paper to call out the appalling behaviour of all our Aboriginal organisations in this town regarding NAIDOC celebrations in a year where the theme is “Always Was, Always Will Be”.  

The old people (our elders who have passed) had the foresight to fight to establish these organisations for their children, grandchildren and all that will come after them to support them with health, housing, culture and language, job opportunities and career pathways to assist them to have the ability to walk in both worlds and have ownership of what is happening on their country as it always was and always will be Aboriginal land. 

NAIDOC is where we should be celebrating these achievements and acknowledging and honouring them with respect.  

Unfortunately, the Aboriginal people who run these organisations have small brains which leads to small minds and even smaller mindedness.  

These do-gooders (which our people call “coconuts or the new name, lamingtons”) of our town need to pack up and go back on THEIR own country and act out their racist ideologies and exclusiveness and be made accountable for their actions by their people instead of causing tension in our community as well as our broader community.  

YOU all have done enough damage so now it’s time for you to GO and allow the committed grassroots people of this town make it like it was, before you all got your grubby hands on our organisations and made them exclusive instead of inclusive which was the way our old people dreamed of.  

The grassroots Aboriginal people will rise up and take back their town and make it like it was back in the 70s and 80s, where respect for the owners of the country was at the forefront of everything that happened in this town.

ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE WARUMUNGU LAND!

– Always was and always will be a concerned Aboriginal of Tennant Creek.