Mr Laurie Bimson (57 when discovered possible Aboriginal Ancestry) claims that his GuriNgai “would never sell Country” and is verbose is expressing how alien and repellent the GuriNgai find the very notion of profiting from the land.

At the same time, some of the many organisations that Laurie Bimson is a director of, and many of the people he believed were his family members until the publication of this website, have been profiting from quite interesting arrangements with the local coal concerns for years now.

As detailed in A Long Con Gone on Too Long, GuriNgai Leadership signed a Mutual Advancement Covenant between Wyong Coal & the Guringai Tribal Link
Aboriginal Corporation (Guringai TLAC) back in 2015.

Wyong Coal Media Releases describe the deal as a “move to support the Central Coast Indigenous Community.”

The Mutual Advancement Covenant was developed collaboratively between Wyong
Coal, the proponents of the Wallarah 2 Coal Project, and the Guringai TLAC, to create positive and beneficial opportunities to aid Indigenous people of the Central Coast to develop skills that will strengthen their long-term prospects.

Click to access Wyong-Coal-sign-mutual-agreement-with-Guringai-TLAC-and-photos-captions.pdf

While GuriNgai membership were bemoaning the coal companies operating on Country they incorrectly claim is “GuriNgai Country”, the families of these directors were receiving financial benefits from these same coal companies.

For instance, the five key programs that make up the Mutual Advancement Covenant between Wyong Coal and Guringai TLAC are:

• Apprenticeship Scheme
  Three apprenticeships over three years.  Apprentices may be full-time or school based.
  Click here to view the newsletter article on William Chandler-Van Vliet, the first Indigenous apprentice sponsored by Wallarah 2.
• Business Start-up Scheme
  Funding to support local Aboriginal persons (or companies owned and operated by local Aboriginal persons) to assist with business start-up expenses. Guringai TLAC has formed the Guringai Green Group as a new business established with the assistance of funding under the MAC Agreement with Wyong Coal.
• Mentor Scheme
  A mentoring program to train and enable experienced mentors to assist participants in our programs to develop and succeed in business and education.
• Guringai Green Team Scheme
  To fund training at TAFE or other suitable venues toward the establishment of a Green Team, who will operate as a business in the environmental project and land management space.
  Click here for more information on Guringai TLAC Green Group
• Indigenous Scholarships
  The Wallarah 2 Coal Project has granted Scholarships to four Indigenous university students since 2016, studying a range of disciplines – science, archaeology, psychology and construction management.
  Click to view the details of the four university students sponsored by Wallarah 2:
  Rachel Kulk – Bachelor of Science
  Heath Van Beusekom – Bachelor of Construction Management
  Kyle Howie – Archaeology & Aboriginal Studies
  Tahlia Robinson – Bachelor of Arts, Psychology 

The Wallarah 2 Coal Project did see the creation of a $10,000 Indigenous Scholarship. The first recipient of this generous scholarship was: William Chandler-Van Vliet.

Keen eyed readers may spot the unusual and unwarranted addition of an Aboriginal blood quantum in paragraph 5:
“William is a quarter-generation descendant of the Kamilaroi tribe on his father’s side and shares a keen interest in his family’s history.”

William is the only scholarship recipient to have his Ancestry publicly displayed, and coincidently does not appear to be a direct family member of a past or present Director of Guringai TLAC. The same can not be said for the other 3 recipients,

The second recipient of this generous scholarship was Rachel Kulk, whose relative was at one time a director of Guringai TLAC, and remains a member after vacating her Director spot way back in 2010.

The third recipient of this generous scholarship was none other than Guringai Tribal Link Director, and son of a Guringai Tribal Link Director, Mr Kyle Howie.

The fourth recipient of this generous scholarship was none other than Guringai Tribal Link Director Tracey-Lee Howie’s niece, Tahlia.

I know what you’re thinking, what about the Guringai Green Team Scheme?
“To fund training at TAFE or other suitable venues toward the establishment of a Green Team, who will operate as a business in the environmental project and land management space.”
Click here for more information on Guringai TLAC Green Group

May I present, the end result of the Guringai Green Team Scheme!

Now Wyong Coal were not simply handing out money to anyone they had been led to believe might be a little bit Aboriginal. As is implied in the term Mutual Advancement Covenant, this is a two way street. Now what could so-called Guringai Tribal Link Aboriginal Corporation possibly offer in exchange for these generous scholarships, and help getting a lawn mowing start-up off the ground?

Presented below is evidence, of Dr David Pross (yet another late in life self-declared GuriNgai Elder, now deceased) writing directly to the NSW State Planning and Assessment Commission, advocating on behalf of Wyong Coal.

Notice in paragraph 5 Dr David Pross writes “All of the opportunities under the MAC are for the Aboriginal Community as a whole and not limited to Guringai TLAC members.” But look at the actual evidence, and it tells a different story to that spun by Dr Pross.

Now is as good a time as any to have a quick refresher of the official, current Rulebook of Guringai Tribal Link Aboriginal Corporation, that binds it’s directors and members since 2008. The objectives of Guringai TLAC are as follows:

You’ll note that no where in the organisations Objectives or rules is there any want/need/avenue at all for doing any work for any Aboriginal Community as a whole, not limited to Guringai TLAC members. They are not allowed to do this according to the rules that these same leaders intentionally designed through their narrow, self interested pseudo-Aboriginal paradigm.

That final line Dr Pross letter to the NSW Planning Commission is a killer:

“We are well aware that such benefits can only emerge if the project receives development consent to move forward.”
Guringai Tribal Link Leadership, in there own words, requesting State Government Officials give ‘development consent to move forward’ to a coal mine.

But Guringai TLAC have not limited these environmentally unsustainable, morally bankrupt and hypocritical activities to just their dealings with one coal company.

Guringai TLAC have also have a long and very fruitful parasitic relationship with Centennial Coal.

https://www.centennialcoal.com.au/operations/myuna/

Now we have uncovered minutes of a meeting held Wednesday 2 November 2022. These minutes of the Northern Region Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Committee meeting of Centennial Coal, provide a list of the Aboriginal Group Representatives, and the Organisations they are representing.

Guringai Tribal Link Aboriginal Corporation members listed include:

Kyle Howie: representing Awabakal and Guringai Pty Ltd

and

Tyler Howie: representing Awabakal Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.

Listed among the apologies for not attending we find:

Tracey Howie: representing Guringai Tribal Link Aboriginal Group

What’s second most interesting about this is that Kyle and Tyler Howie are both Tracey Howie’s sons. Kyle is a Director of Guringai TLAC, and both boys were raised within the bizarre pseudo-Aboriginal Cult created by their great-uncle Warren Whitfield, and their mother Tracey Howie.

To me the most interesting part is that all three are representatives of Guringai Tribal Link Aboriginal Group, yet are appearing on paper representing three distinct entities.
Now what possible benefit could there be to that?
Nevermind that Tyler Howie is neither Awabakal, nor a member of the Awabakal Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation despite appearing here in official Centennial documentation as representing them.

It’s a curious habit of Guringai TLAC founders and directors, to create multiple business identities that all appear to perform the same function, and all have very similar names. Warren Whitfield started Guringai Tribal Link, the same year he started Guringai TLAC, but they are legally distinct entities. Similarly there is now in addition to these two, Awabakal and Guringai Pty Ltd, (NOT an Aboriginal Corporation), Guringai Tours, (NOT an Aboriginal Corporation, despite misleading website stating “Guringai Aboriginal Tours”), Guringai Tours Pty Ltd, (NOT an Aboriginal Corporation, despite misleading website stating “Guringai Aboriginal Tours”), Wannangini Pty Ltd, and many, many more.

Now I’m not some big kind of big city accountant, but it looks to me like it might be time to start double checking those invoices if you’re in the unfortunate situation of having had some sort of business relationship with Guringai TLAC, or any of it’s many, many off shoots.

Accounting errors do happen, but it’s curious if one particular group seemed to very constantly benefit from such mistakes.

It’s the sort of thing (crime) that could be considered victimless, until you remember what is being sold (Country), and that the paltry benefits given in exchange, are going to a group that are not even remotely who they publicly claim to be (Colonisers).

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