Beverly Speirs was born in Woy Woy NSW in 1935, of apparently “mixed Aboriginal/European heritage.”
According to Ms Spiers, as a baby she was “taken from her mother by her white grandmother, who thought her mother was too young and inexperienced for motherhood, and was raised unaware of her Original roots.”
Ms Spiers was an Aboriginal Health Worker in the criminal justice system for 30 years, and was described as a fierce advocate for the health needs of Indigenous People in prison.
“For the many Aboriginal people locked in prison — especially those also locked in their self-destructive rituals of negativity, resentment and blame — experience shows that the process of health education in prison is only likely to start when they are targeted, brought together and encouraged into the caring hands of Justice Health’s wonderful Health Centres, with their specially trained and enthusiastic Aboriginal Health Workers”, she wrote.
Described as “the Last Fully Initiated Female Elder of the Darkinoong“, in 2009 Beverley Spiers was working as a a Justice Health Aboriginal Health Worker and Education Officer, based at Cessnock Corrections Centre, New South Wales.
That same year Ms Spiers was the winner of the Medical Journal of Australia’s Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition for 2009. The Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition runs yearly and is open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are working or studying in a health-related field.
I have no comment on Ms Spiers work in prisons, and prima facie it appears to have viewed by the non-Aboriginal Community as positive.
Ms Spiers was 40 years of age when she claims to have learned “that her father’s mother was a full-blood Aboriginal.”
Ms Spiers made this discovery when a family friend bluntly revealed to her “your grandmother was a f***ing black fella”.
From this discovery Ms Spiers would move into tertiary studies for a time.
“I went to University of Technology Sydney (UTS) at 48 years of age to get that white man’s ‘piece of paper’ to continue to teach. I ended up with quite a few of them in the end. I gained an Associates Diploma of Adult Education, a Bachelor of Aboriginal Adult Education, a Graduate Diploma of Adult Education, a 4th Year Health Worker degree from the First Aboriginal Uni at La Perouse… Before that I had an Advanced Diploma of Dance, a Graduate Diploma of Permaculture in Environmental Studies and Advanced Landscape design from Bill Mollison (Permaculture Institute Tasmania and Australia).”
Beverly Spiers was born in 1935.
Beverly Spiers, or Aunty Beve was often described by non-Aboriginal People as an ‘Original Elder‘ and custodian of the women’s’ lore of the area. Ms Spiers, also went by her supposed tribal name, Goolabeen, and claimed to be an Elder of the Darkinoong Tribe from the Central Coast of NSW.
Ms Spiers claimed to have been taught many of the stories normally only taught to Darkinoong men, in hopes she might pass them on.
She describes her people as
The short tails’ (fish people) who were from near the water.
Not to be confused with the;
The ‘long tails’ (kangaroo people) who were from the inland.
Curiously Ms Spiers described the boundaries of her supposed Darkinoong Country as “from the south side of the Hunter River to the north side of the Hawkesbury River from the Great Dividing Range and down to the sea, as told to me by the Elders”. Yes that’s the same territory claimed by the GuriNgai, but it does not appear to have presented a problem to Tracey-Lee Howie as she was then known.
Tracey-Lee Howie is not a descendant of Bungaree, direct or otherwise, but did make a bungled Native Title attempt for that same geographical region.
Also the Sacred Sites at Calga were protected, but not by Ms Spiers.
They were protected in the Land and Environment Court, where oddly there is no mention of Goolabeen, despite her claims to be fighting for the area.
https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/564a9ec2e4b003c5681fabbe#_Toc435545134
Perhaps Ms Bev Spiers and Ms Colleen Fuller were content to have Tracey Howie represent their shared interests. It is unuasual that both woman would not be sought after experts, given their Elder status among the ‘Darkinoong.’ Yet both are not even listed among the Lay (non-expert) witnesses, unlike their comrade Jake Cassar.
Like Tracey Howie, Ms Spiers was unaware of her ancestry as a child, yet claims to have always had a natural affinity with the land and the local Aboriginal kids.
“Continuing her work bridging the cultural gap, Auntie Beve recently began conducting Aboriginal education sessions in schools, teaching kids Original history, culture, survival, and crafts. Her classes were designed to teach kids “how the first Australians lived and survived in this great southern land of ours, both in the bush and by the water”.
Ms Spiers described how as her supposed Darkinoong had effectively been decimated, she found herself in a unique position; breaking with tradition, her initiations were conducted by Elders from another tribe as there were not enough Darkinoong Elders left to properly complete her initiation. Not unlike the situation facing Warren Whitfield in the early 2000’s when he bemoaned the reality that “all the old people were gone, long gone”.
This ridiculous notion of travelling to different parts of Central Australia in order to be ‘initiated’ and that having bearing on the Country you are from is 100% a post-colonial non-Aboriginal creation. That has been covered brilliantly elsewhere.
The pioneer of the concept of the Central Coast was Beve Spiers, and once she was “fully initiated”, why not extend that same courtesy to other well meaning people of nebulous to no decent from actual Aboriginal People.
Perhaps this is how the GuriNgai claimed to have suddenly acquired Elders of their fictional creation, following the publication of Bob Waterers book.
It’s certainly where another Central Coast woman of non-Aboriginal decent and a hyper fixation on the supposed “Kariong Sacred Lands”, one Colleen Fuller, who is now also claiming to be an Elder of the same ‘tribe’, got her start.
You’ll have noticed by now Ms Spiers repeated usage of the term ‘Original People.’ This is no mere typo on Beverly Spiers part. She actually believed that she belonged to a new type of Aboriginal Person, not just Aboriginal, but Original. It’s bizarre.
Ms Spiers was a proponent of a lesser known pseudo-historical ‘theory’ of the origins of human life, and the interference by extra-terrestrial visitors. This is the “Ancient Origins archaeology team” mentioned above.
On Wednesday 23rd April 2014 Beverly Spiers passed away.
“After a solid day in scrub, we sat and rested on the verandah at ‘base camp’ and de-briefed. Still full of questions, we were soon joined by Aunty Beve, who at that stage knew nothing of what we had found that day or where. In perfect synchronicity, Aunty Beve revealed to us the story of star-people coming to this area.
Amazingly, we hadn’t even told her about the UFO pecking yet! And until now, Aunty Beve had never passed any comment on the topic of extra-terrestrials. But according to Darkinjung lore, not only did “they” come, and arrive in distress as Uncle Reuben has advised, their stricken-craft also crashed “in the waters at Bambara” in a location that “wasn’t the ocean.
It instantly struck me! The huge UFO pecking is located on a small rock shelf more than 20 metres from the shore, overlooking the Brisbane Waters waterway.
Brisbane Waters Waterway
Aunty Beve paused for a moment, searching her mind for the exact terminology for the vessel that crashed in the “waters” – the ancient words which had been passed on to her through countless generations. Finally – and never did we doubt it would occur – she recalled how the Elders spoke of this event: “Carriers from up there, that’s it!” She also made reference to this area being the “beginning place”, as she had done before. But in learning that the “carriers from up there“ crashed within a few kilometres of the 300 hieroglyphs, we also learn that extra-terrestrial beings and their craft were an integral part of the “beginning place” and its story.”
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/people/2023/09/15/narcissists-conspiracy-theories-research/
These conspiracy types are drawn to this area like fly’s, in no small part because of hoaxes like the Gosford Glyphs, and relentless self promoters like non-Aboriginal ‘Culture Instructor,’ ‘Didgeridoo Performer’, and well known local gadfly Jake Cassar who runs doomsday prepper ‘courses’ on Country that is not his, appropriating Culture for his business enterprises.
These people are only too happy to have supposed Aboriginal People around, as long as they look sound, and act very much like non-Aboriginal environmental activists.
The race dysphoric GuriNgai of Northern Sydney and the Central Coast are urging their confused brethren to Vote No in the upcoming referendum on Constitutional recognition for Australia’s Indigenous Peoples.
Their on-going fraud is enabled and emboldened by Jack Cassar and the Coast Environmental Alliance, along with Community Voice Australia – Central Coast, and the so-called ‘Indigenous-Aboriginal Party’s own non-Aboriginal NSW co-ordinator, Lisa Bellamy.
It’s a perfect fit to have folks who late in life came to believe they are Aboriginal, but silly enough to declare themselves Elders of nonexistent tribes, hang around.
This mutually beneficial parasitic arrangement provides groups such as the Coast Environment Network, Kariong Progress Association, and many more carte blanche to attack the local Aboriginal Land Council for having the temerity of wanting to develop their land, on behalf of and for the benefit of actual Aboriginal People and community.
The Indigenous Party of Australia (now the Indigenous-Aboriginal Party), currently in the process of becoming a registered political party, has joined the groundswell of opposition to a development project planned for sensitive land at Kariong.
The Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council (DLALC) proposal for a 70-home housing development in Woy Woy Rd is currently under consideration by the NSW Planning Department, with a campaign spearheaded by Coast Environmental Alliance and some members of the Central Coast’s Indigenous community saying the plans would encroach on culturally significant land.
DLALC has questioned the cultural authority and status of some Aboriginal groups in the community, with much of the controversy centred around the use of the term Guringai in defining Indigenous residents on the Coast.
“(Local government) on the Northern Beaches faced a similar dilemma and provided a report clarifying the status of the Guringai,” a statement from DLALC said.
“In short the report found that the Guringai in Sydney and the Central Coast were a fiction and discredited the problematic anthropologist (who coined the name).
“Furthermore the ‘Guringai’ made an application for Native Title on lands including on the Central Coast and had to discontinue their application.”
They believe they can outright attack actual Aboriginal People, because they are merely taking sides in some sort of ‘tribal war’ as they are told by the GuriNgai.
Which leads to this:
and this:
and this:
and this:
These confused racist people claim to be interested in saving the environment, yet seem to confine their concerns to the few parcels of land actually owned by Aboriginal People. Country that has no sacred or Cultural sites on it.
When no sites are found, they conjure the most absurd reasoning, while simultaneously claiming expertise:
A great deal of this racist misinformation is being spread through the local community by one Lisa Bellamy.
Lisa Bellamy presents herself as an ally to Aboriginal People, to such an extant that she is one of the main organisers of the Indigenous Aboriginal Party, despite being a non-Aboriginal Person, who can not recognise Aboriginal Culture, and who appears to value her own backyard over the lives of the over 17,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands People who call the Central Coast home, and don’t identify to a fictional tribe invented by a non-Aboriginal Person.
Lisa Bellamy has been aware of the GuriNgai Fraud since at least the 4th of July this year. Lisa offered the following response:
You may know the Indigenous-Aboriginal Party as the one that had Tracey Howie as a candidate (briefly), before she was replaced by former One Nation candidate of nebulous decent, Jeff Lawson.
Well they have been aware of the GuriNgai not being legitimate since July 7 this year, but don’t consider this worth bothering themselves with. Despite claiming that “all party board members and candidates must be Indigenous.”
I do not know Jeffrey Lawson, and we have never met . However his claim that “Auntie Tracey and I are descendants of Bungaree” is false, whether Jeffrey was aware of this at the time or not.
If like Tracey-Lee, Jeffrey claim descent along the so-called ‘Ashby line,’ then there is no evidence connecting him to any of Bungaree’s mob.
I reached out to Jeffrey on Social Media as he was on a Darug Page I am a member of. I asked is he was Tracey Howie’s cousin, to which he replied no. I asked if he still believed he was descended from Bungaree he replied yes. When I advised we must be related then, he blocked me, and appears to have left the group.
This sparked a deeper look into Jeffrey Lawson, and the discovery this was not his first run at politics, having previously run as a candidate for the One Nation Party, back in 2013.
It’s not clear when Jeff traded in Pauline Hanson for Tracey Howie, but it’s an educated guess this was a smoother lateral move than an uniformed public may have guessed.
Until recently anyway.
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