RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Indigenous Pre-doctoral Research Fellow Rebecca Hird Fletcher is one of three Administrators of ‘Family of Bungaree’ Facebook Group, alongside University of Queensland’s Director of the Indigenous Business Hub (Acting) & Senior Lecturer in the School of Business, Dr Sharlene Leroy Dwyer and
Mr Laurie Bimson.

It seems as if Ms Hird Fletcher may have been under the mistaken impression that she was a descendant of Bungaree and Matora, like many on the so-called Ashby/Smith/Webb line. Rather than raise this with her groups Leadership, Ms Hird Fletcher insists on pestering Aboriginal families about her families false claims.

Rebecca usually positions herself as a mediator in the many disputes various GuriNgai have with Aboriginal People.:

When not snooping around my Linkedin profile:

Rebecca enjoys posting on Facebook about her experiences with what she has been led to believe is ‘Culture.’

On 16/07/2023 Rebecca Hird Fletcher, left the following comment on the A long con, gone on to long Facebook page:

I responded with the following:

Hi Rebecca Hird Fletcher,

Your comment was more cogent then what WW seems capable of, so you get a response!

<JD you seem very intent on slandering GuriNgai mob and good people who were happy to welcome you.>

I am not slandering anyone. I am truth-telling and providing evidence. We clearly have a very different metric for measuring ‘good people.’ (I did not point out that Rebecca makes a clear distinction between those she considers ‘GuriNgai mob’, and people Rebecca considers ‘good people.’ Freudian slips happen to the best of us, and the rest of us).

<Why would you do that?>

Because unscrupulous people have claimed my Ancestors as their own, and brought shame by association to Genuine Aboriginal People. The intro clearly spells this out in the Intro of bungaree.org

<What do you have to gain?>

I do not want the atrocious behaviour of these people to continue to be associated with my genuine Aboriginal Ancestor, with whom you have no connection, familial or otherwise. I understand seeing someone undertake a project of this scale without a financial motivation must seem downright alien!

<It seems you have a vendetta as we weren’t prepared to endorse Bungaree.org as representing GuriNgai or endorse you as a ‘Bungaree consultant’.>

I’m not sure it does seem that way Rebecca, and you know this to be false. I met with your family members twice over Zoom, conducted due diligence when a number of red flags appeared, and the resulting investigation is what is now publicly available on Bungaree.org

<You had just become known to us and only identified since 2020. That’s not a significant enough time to be considered an expert or promote yourself as a consultant on our family and cultural matters.>

As with most matters, your organisation is mistaking when you became aware of something, with when the rest of the world was aware. Thank you for acknowledging that time is a factor in establishing expertise; perhaps pass this along to your ‘Uncles’ and ‘Aunties’. If there was ever a perception that I wished to join your cabal, I respectfully decline your generous offer.

<There are a few questions that you could answer if you want to support your own claims of credibility->

My evidence stands and falls on its own merits, and clumsy attempts to discredit me are hardly the ploy of an innocent party, in my humble opinion.

<You’ve claimed you’re a lawyer, a public relations expert and an academic. What are your actual qualifications in these areas?>

Have I? I believe I would have claimed to have studied Law. I do not practice and have no desire to do so. My qualifications and most likely my CV are matters of public record and not hidden.

<What is your family line and direct bloodline link to Bungaree?>

How can you claim not to know this, yet also claim that I am a member of your Cult, and that I was welcomed in? Your inconsistency is showing a little Rebecca.

<As yet you haven’t responded to this question. >

This is our first dialogue, when could I have responded?

<I would think that an author who is intent on exposing others as frauds would make sure their own claimed lineage was transparent.>

You would be right. I am however not going to share more family information with you or the organisations you are tied up in, having seen and published the evidence of what could happen with it.

<What is your academic position? >

Why would I share further information with you?

Certainly not an identified position unlike many I know 

<If you are teaching a a Uni it should come up on their website. Could you provide the link please?>

Yeah, as above.

<Where are your references or evidence base in your writing? An academic or journalist would provide referencing throughout their work.>

It is literally in the work, with big pictures and hyperlinks that you really have to try hard to miss.

<How has your writing been peer reviewed?>

Sorry Rebecca, the peer-review process does not apply to blog posts, just ask Warren Whitfield. Rest assured though my work is being examined by many peers as we speak!

<Again, academic and professional writing will have work peer reviewed so as to ensure that the content is factual and evidenced.>

Thank you for explaining peer review for the class Rebecca. Notice how the other kids didn’t immediately demand a CV before considering your statement.

<I can’t see your attacks on GuriNgai mob boding well for you JD.>

Thank you for your insight/threat, Rebecca. As wise and thought provoking as ever.

<When you put out such intentional slander to hurt good people the ancestors do not smile.>

When I tell truth to correct the fraud perpetuated by hucksters claiming my Ancestors as their own; my Ancestors absolutely love it! Again, we simply have a very different metric for measuring ‘good people.’

I hope one day you’re able to locate and make peace with your own actual Ancestors and stop heaping shame on mine.

Yanu.

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The above is a clear rejection of the GuriNgai, by this Author, on January 18, 2023, 4:25 PM.

You’ll notice it was received and witnessed by the administrators of the ‘‘Family of Bungaree’ Facebook Page: Rebecca Hird Fletcher, Laurie Bimson, and Sharlene Leroy-Dyer.
The same Rebecca Hird Fletcher who days ago claimed to not know who I was, claimed to not know why I was engaged in this truth-telling, and issued the following threat:

“I can’t see your attacks on GuriNgai mob boding well for you JD.“

Which is less direct than the threats received by my Aboriginal Family members in April this year.

Then on 02/08/2023 Rebecca Hird Fletcher posted on a Darug Facebook page, that I as a Darug man belong to.

I replied:

It seems the embargo from contacting me that Tracey Howie demanded of her followers has expired.

Or perhaps her ‘authority’ over her minions is starting to dissipate like a morning fog…