Guringai, GuriNgai, Wannangini, Walkaloa: A long con, gone on too long
This chapter analyses the period 2007–2008 as a decisive phase in the consolidation of the non-Aboriginal “GuriNgai” identity fraud in Northern Sydney and the Central Coast.
2007
Guringai Tribal Link Aboriginal Corporation introduces itself to the community through threats of legal action.
On the 12th of September Guringai Tribal Link Directors Tracey-Lee Howie, and Michelle Kulk file Request to change corporation rule book, documentation with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations.
2008
- Bob Waterers book is published.
http://Book-The_Story_of_Bob_Waterer.pdf
Laurie Bimson and Neil Evers, both grandparents who had lived their entire lives as privileged non-Aboriginal people discover they may have a distant Aboriginal Ancestor they were completely unaware of.
Soon after discovering their Ancestry, these men were fooled by, or willingly took up with non-Aboriginal charlatans, and were/are not Culturally equipped or familiar enough with actual, genuine Aboriginal People, Values, or Knowledge, to be able to see through the GuriNgai fiction.
It is possible their long lives of privilege did them a disservice, and left them wide open to be colonised by Warren Whitfield, and welcomed into the Guringai fiction, created only a few years earlier.
In April 2008, Tracey-lee Howie (this time) receives the following paid response from historian Michael Bennett:
As no new evidence was, or could be provided, one can only wonder what the ‘oral evidence’ could have been to sway this historian.
There remains no evidence at all connecting ‘Sophy’ to Bungaree, Matora, or any member of our mob, yet this detail is once again somehow overlooked. I can’t help but wonder how many historians said no before Tracey stumbled across Michael Bennett.
On 10 November 2008 Delegate of the Registrar of Australian Federal Government’s Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations, Lorraine ROGGE, approved Guringai Tribal Link’s Consolidated Rule Book. The organisation’s objectives, which remain unchanged to this day are as follows:
Note the repeated use of the word Guringai; Guringai History, Guringai Boundaries, Guringai Culture and Guringai People. Yet Warren Warren Whitfield declared in 2001 that his people were Walkaloa Clan? It’s as if they are not aware that Guringai is inauthentic, and was only ever associated with the Central Coast area after the fact, by a non-Aboriginal amateur historian.
Quite an odd thing to miss for ‘traditional people’ relying on ‘traditional knowledge’.
3.5 may explain a lot of what’s to come in terms of ‘merit’, which does not benefit from a definition in the document’s dictionary.
Pure self-interest is foundational to this organisation, as determined by the Directors at that time; Section 5.2.2 of the current legally binding Rules of Guringai Tribal Link sets out their criteria for entry:
Notice also the use of Guringai Nation, in contrast with Warren Whitfield’s claim the Guringai is the modern name for a clan.
What about the the complete absence of the words Wannangine, Wannangini, Traditional Bloodline Custodians; the sole defining term chosen by Guringai Tribal Link directors was, and remains Guringai.
Each of the 55 members of Guringai Tribal Link are bound by following:
Schedule 1 of the Guringai Tribal Link Aboriginal Corporation provides a definition of ‘Member of the Guringai nation:
Definitely not a red flag that they have ‘Aborigine‘ in their Rules of Guringai Tribal Link since 2008, and not one of them thought to maybe, not use that word? Sounds about white.
We see here codified into official documentation the fictional narrative spawned by Mr Warren Whitfield only 7 years earlier. We see it become a strange, racist, insular group, strictly controlled by self appointed Leaders…now what does that sound like?
A Long Con, Gone on Too Long. 
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