[2] On 12 March 2006, a camp was established and a ceremonial fire was lit at the Kings Domain Resting Place, a sacred burial ground for repatriated remains of Aboriginal people.

Camp Sovereignty places emphasis on maximising media coverage nationally and internationally to so that Indigenous Australian civil rights issues would be understood by the global population.

[6] This podcast collates and shares interviews and primary accounts from the founding members of the Black GST group and later Indigenous activists of the 21st century.

Prior to Camp Sovereignty, the Black GST group began publicising their message and encouraging people to join their protest.

Aside from the Indigenous Law Bulletin[1] which encouraged Aboriginal activism in Australia, media outlets were not recognising the work and plans of the Black GST group.

As this continued, the group were met with harsher criticism from the public and other Indigenous activities, along with legal threats from levels of government until it was inevitably shut down.

The group sought to publicise Indigenous civil rights issues and introduced their motives to end genocide, promote sovereignty and create treaties.

[11][12] Throughout February and early March 2006, the Black GST group and Victorian authorities engaged in frequent non-conclusive discussion to ensure "the protest is manageable"[6] and is reasonable.

These discussions combined with the government rejecting a cultural camp in Victoria Park, Collingwood had led the Black GST group to become increasingly vocal.

[5] On 2 March 2006, the group launched the Camp Sovereignty website to publicise their message online to a global audience and share the significance of their sacred site.

[7] After refusing to close the camp on 25 March by declaring the site of the fire in kings Domain as sacred,[9] the state government initiated legal action to stop the demonstration.

[9] Australian Prime Minister at the time, John Howard also commented on the state of Camp Sovereignty throughout April 2006 as the protest continued.

[9] Prime Minister John Howard criticised Victorian authorities for their inaction drawing similarities to the issues of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra which has remained from 1972.

Robbie Thorpe's weekly podcast frequently refers back to Camp Sovereignty and how it has led to his future work as Australian Indigenous activists.

The focus of Camp Sovereignty was to maximise media coverage of Indigenous civil rights issues on a national and international scale to create reform.

This shaped the plans of Camp Sovereignty using one of the most notable and publicised Australian sporting events in the Commonwealth Games as a mode of protest.

This aim extended across domestic and international media outlets with the group believing ‘the world should watch and judge Australia for its treatment of its First Nations people.

[13] The events drew headlines across mainstream media outlets including The Age[9][14] and The Wire[18] which show Camp Sovereignty to be a notable protest.

The image analysed was taken by photographer Lisa Belair, depicting a shirtless Indigenous Australian man and a white police officer holding hands in the camp setting.

Additionally, the ABC collaborated with Australian academics Richard Broome and Kim Krugar to provide historical backing and context explaining Camp Sovereignty in the podcast.

The movement maintains its previous goals, while also calling on the return of the land it occupies for community use by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.