Environmentalist Bob Brown has explained why Aboriginal activist Jim Everett does not recognise the court. Video via AAP. Jim Everett is not pictured in the video.
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00:00 The court, which is not recognised by Jim Everett because his people were here long before this court was established,
00:10 has now issued an order to take into risk.
00:14 This is a terrible circumstance, which has to be understood by all us who are non-Aboriginal in Australia,
00:24 that our court system didn't rule over Aboriginal people, First Nations people, right across Australia,
00:34 and there has been no provision for that rule to overtake the Indigenous people of Australia, the First Nations people.
00:44 So there arises now a circumstance where a court is overriding the sovereignty of Jim Everett,
01:00 this Aboriginal man who has such enormous respect in the Tasmanian First Nations community,
01:12 but right across this island and across Australia.
01:18 This is a seminal moment in the jurisdiction between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians.
01:28 There has never been a treaty in this country. There should have been.
01:32 Every similar country in the world has got a treaty with the original people of that country
01:40 where people have invaded, taken over and established courts. This country doesn't.