ABSTRACT
Land rights movements have always been about more than the singular demand of legal recognition of rights to land. In reality, they are a means of privileging black experiences of what has happened since the First Fleet arrived in the country of the Eora people. Grass-roots struggles empower our people to name the invasion that our ancestors lived and the occupation that we continue to endure, and in the process, subvert the benign myth of settlement and the erasure of Aboriginal sovereignty. Just as importantly, movements such as the Embassy give us the ability to imagine a future beyond colonization: one that is based on the ability to lead self-determining lives.
