Northern Territory MP Yiŋiya Mark Guyula has urged Mob "camping and sleeping in long grass" to return to their communities to avoid "bad laws".
It comes in the wake of the Country Liberal Party government enacting new legislation, including lowering the age of criminal responsibility to ten, and public drinking laws, that shadow attorney-general and Eastern Arrernte and Gurindji man, Chansey Paech, described as "a contemporary system of racial control".
Over the weekend, the Member for Mulka and Yolŋu man, Mr Guyula, posted on his social media a warning for Indigenous people "wherever you come from around the communities in NT" to return home.
"If you mob are camping and sleeping in long grass and towns camp. Please think about going back to your communities or even back to your homeland communities," he said.
"We are now seeing a NT CLP Government that is introducing very very bad laws that will increase systemic racism for our Indigenous Sovereign people of this land.
"We are going to see an increased number of Aboriginal people - adults and children in jail."
Mr Guyula was outspoken in his protests last week - both in and out of parliament - when the CLP passed legislation lowering the age, saying he was "reminded of the history of massacres on our country where guns and force were used to kill our people. Now it is laws like this one that continue to oppress us."
Commenting from Nhulunbuy in north-east Arnhem Land, after what he called a "disappointing and sad week at Parliament," Mr Guyula said. "We are going into a thick deep rain."
"We are being disempowered further by a colonial government and we must hold strong to our culture so that we can come out the other side.
"Come back to homeland country where you are safe."
Mr Paech echoed Mr Guyula's concerns, with NT News reporting he said the CLP was using the criminal justice system as a method of "racial control".
"I want to acknowledge his concerns and acknowledge the call he put out on all social media platforms encouraging family to consider what is being imposed and the possible implications," he said.
We are concerned the CLP are potentially using the criminal justice system as a way of racial control."
He noted this was an issue Mr Guyula was concerned about, "and he's rightfully entitled to that".
Deputy Chief Minister Gerard Maley said the government was happy to help facilitate returns to country for First Nations people.
"I haven't seen that post but if people want to go home to communities, we welcome that," he said, as reported by NT News.
"We certainly encourage people not to live rough and if they want to get home, certainly we can give them as much support as we can to be able to get them home, and I support that."
