Old Lake Eyre is Calling

Lake Eyre

is calling
Arabunna People home

Arabunna People are calling on all other Black nations and other supporters
to join in.
Arabunna are Going Home
for our responsibilities
and obligations
to stop
the biggest threat to our Country -
Western Mining's development of
the Roxby Downs uranium mine
at Olympic Dam
and the threat
of the radioactive waste dumping
by Primary Industries and Energy.

This movement is about peace.
Lake Eyre is calling people
to make peace
with the People and the Old Country

Arabunna People
are fighting for our land
and our survival
we've had enough
we are going home
we are inviting others to come
and participate.
The Old Lake is calling us back.
It is hurting ...
It is wanting ...

The time is right to move.
We have decided on the
26th March 1999
Come down.
You are invited to attend this event
on the shores
of Lake Eyre

Bring your swag, tucker
on the Oodnadatta track
on the shores of Lake Eyre
Signs will be erected.

Stop the use of uranium in wars
stop the wars and make peace.
The time is come.
This is the start.

Lake Eyre, with its waterways
and Mound Springs
and all the animals and plants that belong,
is a very very special place.
It catches all the ancient inland rivers and creeks -
many rivers from other Countries.
The Old Lake calms them down
like nursing a little baby.

Water is life.
Water is more precious than gold.
The Old Lake wasn't designed
and constructed and created
for the purposes that it is now being used for
It's hurting and it's calling ...

If you feel strong in spirit
to save the Old Lake
then be there.
We invite you to come
with your strong spirit.

Old Lake Eyre is talking...

Old Lake Eyre is calling us Arabunna:

"Come Home
for Life.
Begin a new and sweeter way -
being free.
Ease the pain. Become one again."
The Old Lake has set this up from the start
for this purpose
to wake the people up to live for Life
The Old Lake has laid the trap
set the bait
wanted them to come:

"Come and try me!
You've tried the rest of the world,
I'm waiting for you ...
Keep taking the water ...
come on Western Mining
Keep sucking, man
Keep coming in
and trying to break me
and see what happens.
They don't know me.
They are trying to break me
by pulling my arms apart
by pulling my legs apart.
Can you rip your baby apart?
Can you rip your grandmother apart?
Can you pull your grandfather apart?
They don't know me.
Why try and inflict the pain on me
and my People?
Because I have the recipe
for Life ..."
That's why the Old Lake set up the bait ...
to draw the people
to wake them up ...
The time has come
to come and listen
to make peace
not war.

The Old Lake is lonely
sitting down himself
calling for the kids and families:

"No people, no kids. They've gone.
Took 'em away."
The Old Lake is too old ...
too old to be mucked around with.
Too old.

We are appealing to all different mobs
to share and join our Coming Home -
build a humpy,
whittle a stick, make a spear,
put one up to symbolise your own mob.
Participate in this spiritual journey
Old Lake Eyre is talking, calling ...

211 years ago Old Lake
knew this mob were coming ...
115 years ago they came to Lake Eyre.
The Old Lake made these fellas come
to work out
the right way
from the wrong way of living
since the interference
This is why this change is needed
for the healing and the blessing.
Say Sorry to the Old Country
to the Old Lake.
Bless it.
Love it
and keep on saying: Sorry
and Sorry and Sorry
and Sorry
until it's done
and our sovereignty is respected ...

Leave the lakes free
Leave the rivers free
Let the waters run free
Leave the Mound Springs free
Leave the airways fresh
let the babies and the people live free
Live Life.

We are calling on all governments
local, State and Federal levels
to fully support us in this event
and to join in
and be part of this peaceful movement
to sop this unnatural destruction.
Nobody and no Country
deserves this harsh treatment.
We deserve the good way,
the peace way.

The message simply is:
Leave Old Lake Eyre
and the waterways alone.
No more destruction.
That's the message:
Leave it!
The Country is too old
to be mucked around.