A Modest Proposal for an Aboriginal Aristocracy
In 1853, an attempt was made to install a home grown aristocracy in Australia, a ‘Bunyip Aristocracy.’
It failed, but in this blog-post we will outline a modest proposal for a reconsideration of an Australian Aristocracy. This aristocracy would ultimately bring forth a ‘monarch’ who would serve as an Australian hereditary Head of State as a replacement for the British Royal family.
We believe the time is now right, 170 years later after the first failed attempt, to begin a new phase of governance in Australia, starting in 2024. The perfect candidates for this new Aristocracy would be a First Nations’ family who could provide the country with an Indigenous Head of State.
Finally, our ‘apron-strings’ with Britain would be broken and we would be truely independent.
What could possibly go wrong?
Our Modest Proposal
As a first step we would propose to do a State-based pilot-project in lutruwita (Tasmania).
Our modest proposal would be to,
amend the Tasmanian Constitution to jettison the Crown’s Tasmanian representative, The Governor of Tasmania, and replace her with a home grown, Tasmanian Aboriginal monarch at the head of a First Nations aristocracy.
An aristocracy is an ancient form of societal structure that has been successfully used for governance in many societies around the world throughout history. Given that Australian Aboriginal, ‘First Nations’ societies, had strict kinship and marriage rules, allocated the available land into clans (dukedoms) according to notions of patriarchal hereditary and are highly hierarchal in structure - every person has their place/role and every person is in their place/role, no exceptions - it would seem that our first Australian aristocracy should be an Aboriginal one, a real First Nation.
Our proposal would be to install the Mansell Family as lutruwita’s ‘Aboriginal Monarchy’, in replacement of the legal and cultural functions currently performed by Tasmania’s Governor.
In fact the current Governor, Barbera Baker, has all but formally agreed that it is time for Britain to ‘retreat’ and pull out its ‘invasion forces'. The game was up when the Representative of her [then] Majesty Queen Elizabeth admited that Britain ‘invaded’ Tasmania, in a speech she gave last year:
Her Excellency the Honourable Barbara Baker AC, the 29th Governor of Tasmania. Source
‘I acknowledge the contemporary Tasmanian Aboriginal community, who have survived invasion and dispossession, and continue to maintain their identity, culture and Indigenous rights.’
- Address by Her Excellency The Honourable Barbara Baker AC, Governor of Tasmania,
NATIONAL POLICE REMEMBRANCE DAY 2021, TASMANIA POLICE ACADEMY, ROKEBY, WEDNESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2021
With Tasmania’s Governor acquiescing to the ‘invasion narrative’, it now seems that this representative of the British Crown might logically think that it is time for the British to ‘withdraw their forces’ and leave, and hand over the State to our proposed new monarch, HRH King Michael.
Indeed, even King Michael himself has pointed out that his direct ‘royal line of kingship’ goes back 40,000 years to his ‘royal’ ancestors, now entombed in Tasmania’s ‘Valley of the Kings’.
What could be more fitting than us humble lutruwitans once again returning our ‘King’ to his rightful place as our hereditary leader?
All hail King Michael!
Details of the Proposed Aboriginal Aristocracy
His Royal Highness King Michael and his family - the House of Mansell - are perfectly qualified to provide this governance and leadership for the people of lutruwita.
Figure 1 - Could The House of Mansell be our new Royal Family of lutruwita?
Over the past 40 years King Michael has steadily built The House of Mansell into the ‘aristocratic’ powerhouse that is today. King Michael has shown himself to be an able financial custodian, having presided over some $120 million in taxpayer funded income in grants in the last 10 years alone (Figure 2).
Our proposal would involve the simple step of re-naming these ‘grants’ as the ‘Civil List’ for the Aboriginal Aristocracy of lutruwita.
We simple lutruwitans have been happy to pay $120 million to the House of Mansell in grants - let’s just accept it as the cost of our new monarchy and call it the ‘Tasmanian/lutruwitan Civil List’, established at a cost of some $12 million per year - that’s cheap for such a rich State as ours!
With our new Aboriginal Monarchy of lutruwita, not only would the Tasmanian taxpayer save all the funds currently being spent on the British Governor, but we would pick up a whole aristocratic network of ‘minor aristocrats’ - the current members of the TAC.
Our proposal would involve the reclassification of these current ‘members’ of the TAC with new titles such as Duke, Duchess and other assorted, minor titles.
For example, the 44-page list of the currently registered members of the TAC could be reclassified into a series of Dukedoms in the House of Mansell based around the large family groupings such as the Duke and Duchess of Anderson, Prince and Princess Beeton, Duke and Duchess of Dillon and Earl Everett, amongst many others.
We are confident that this aristocracy has the potential over time to develop into a fully functioning monarchy, and represent a real example of what might be achievable on a national level.
We believe that, like in Britain’s House of Windsor, the individual members of the House of Mansell should be allowed to own their own lands and palaces around lutruwita.
Some of lutriwuta’s subjects might think it hypocritical that King Michael and his royal family would own property in their own names in lutruwita, while calling upon their subjects to hand over the Crown lands of the former state of Tasmania to the House of Mansell and the Tasmanian Aboriginal people. We do not agree.
It is completely understandable that, for an aristocratic form of governance to be ‘sustainable’ in the long-term, its members must be trained to have a ‘sense of entitlement’ and ‘superiority’ over their subjects, the ‘little people of lutruwita.’
It would be too much to expect for the individual members of an aristocracy to have to transfer their own property into the body-corporate structure that is the TAC and later to the proposed House of Mansell.
We say, let the family keep their own individual palaces in places like Invermay, Prospect Vale, Kingston Beach and Glenorchy.
The House of Mansell should be a thoroughly modern aristocracy and keep its own assets private and get the State to fund the monarchy’s on-going expenses and the communal Crown lands that will be presided over by the monarchy.
To date, only some ‘55,600 hectares of Tasmanian land has been returned to the Aboriginal community, [in effect our proposed House of Mansell] however, no land has been returned since 2006, so the subjects of lutruwita obviously have a lot more to give!
Where to from here?
The TAC [Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre] announced on 15[16] December 2022, their opening ambit claim in the Treaty Process in lutruwita/Tasmania (Figure 3).
We believe that this Treaty Process is a perfect path forward in the establishment of an Aboriginal Aristocracy in Tasmania.
Figure 3 - The TAC start their claims for the Treaty Process which we believe is a perfect template for the creation of the House Of Mansell Aristocracy. Source: 16 December 2022
It has come to our attention that the TAC proposal for the TASMANIA LUTRUWITA TREATY BILL 2023 is now available and an alleged copy is available here.
Our readers will see that it is a modest proposal that will be funded, we believe willingly by the tax-payers of lutruwita, to the tune of a modest three percent (3%) of Tasmania’s GDP, to be paid to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people [Item 14-6].
With Tasmania’s GDP [GSP - Gross State Product] currently being $36.7 Billion, the cost of this Treaty Bill is modest - at only $1.1 Billion per year (3% of GSP) in perpetuity.
That is only $36,700 per year in perpetuity for each of the 30,000 Tasmanians identifying as Aboriginal today. We are sure that the other 95% of lutruwitan’s will be thrilled to gain an Aboriginal Aristocracy based on hereditary for such a modest annual sum.
In conclusion, we here at Dark Emu Exposed, believe that HRH King Michael from the House of Mansell is the perfect man to become Tasmania’s first reigning monarch, given his long track record in arguing for the rights of Tasmania’s Aboriginal people.
Only the future HRH King Michael, in our opinion, can lead the legislative program to establish the Treaty and wrestle all the Crown land back into the hands of its rightful owners, those Tasmanians who are today increasingly identifying themselves as Aboriginal. And no wonder that the number of Aboriginal people increase in lutruwita by some 5%pa - who wouldn’t want to be a member of Tasmanian Royalty?
All hail King Michael!
Figure 4 - A humble, less assertive, ‘Prince Michael’ meets the Queen in 1977.
Figure 5 - The more matured, HRH King Michael, a monarch that gets things done.
