Lisa Bellamy, White Supremacy cloaked as Allyship

Lisa Bellamy, White Supremacy cloaked as Allyship

Among the various non-Aboriginal eccentrics and colorful characters of the Northern Beaches region of Sydney, and the Central Coast areas, Lisa Bellamy is a name that appears over and again, and at an alarmingly increasing pace.

Lisa Bellamy is unique among her compatriots in that she does not (yet) claim to belong to a fictional Aboriginal tribe created only 2 decades earlier, by other non-Aboriginal People.

Lisa instead 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 not being an ‘expert’ and not being an Aboriginal Person, Lisa platforms herself, and speaks her racialized, misunderstandings in relation to Aboriginal issues.

Yet Lisa is unable to recognise, or unable to care about genuine Aboriginal People and Culture, appearing to value her own backyard over the lives of the 17,000+ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands People who call the Central Coast home, if we don’t identify to a fictional tribe invented by a non-Aboriginal Person.

You may recognise 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.

Yes by THEY, of course Lisa means Aboriginal People.

Lisa Bellamy has been aware of the GuriNgai Fraud since at least the 4th of July 2023.

Lisa offered the following response:

Lisa previously claimed that “My experience is…if you are labelling yourself as someone or something you are not, to obtain benefit..money, power etc…then that is not on.”

Yet Lisa enables and encourages the theft of Aboriginal Identity, Culture and meaning by actively encouraging and enabling the perpetrators of such.

Doing so, while publicly proclaiming to be an ally of Aboriginal People is incredibly dangerous and harmful.

Lisa was made aware of this, but her cause is more important, regardless of the harm caused to actual Aboriginal People.

Lisa believes her cause, her fight, her goals, are more important than those of the Indigenous People of this land; the People who own this land, and from whom it was STOLEN, by people just like LISA, who ‘knew better’ and believed WE needed saving from ourselves.

Lisa’s belief, and the actions and behaviours motivated by this belief are a clear expression of white supremacy.

Lisa’s inability to recognise this in herself is indicative of privilege and ignorance, not uncommon comorbidities with white supremacy.

On Saturday I spoke at an event about the need to Save Kariong Sacred Lands. 🌱

After the event I reflected on WHAT I talked about, and HOW i presented and I am bit disappointed in myself.

I wish I had been more positive

I wish I had been more loving

I wish I had been less critical about local and state leaders, groups, legislation and systems.

I wish i hadn’t said things that bring about more division in our community.

The sole patch of land that Lisa is fighting so hard to ‘protect’, just happens to be owned by genuine Aboriginal People.

These Genuine Aboriginal People are being opposed by known frauds, the perpetually concussed, and by supposedly progressive non-Aboriginal allies, who believe they have more right to our land and what we do with our land than we do.

Their actions and activities’ are focused like a laser pointer on just these parcels of land.

The land at issue is zoned C2, the second highest environmental protection zoning, (C1 is National Park or equivalent), is owned by the Darkinjung Land Council, a non-profit Central Coast Aboriginal Community group set up under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983.

The Land Council say they will protect already found Aboriginal sites and any future finds in perpetuity.

https://coastcommunitynews.com.au/central-coast/news/2020/06/indigenous-community-split-over-darkinjung-development-aspirations/

But DLALC says its proposal would see more than half the site safeguarded for environmental conservation.

Chairperson Matthew West said 7.1ha of the 13.2ha site would be zoned E2 environmental conservation, making it an untouchable green space to protect the bush and resident animal populations.

“The proposal would preserve more than half the site in its pristine ecological state for people to cherish and animals and plants to flourish for generations to come,” West said.

“We seek to develop the remainder of the site for residential housing that will help us realise the community, economic and social aspirations we have for our people and the broader community of the Central Coast.”

West said a small, isolated section of the community had criticised the proposal because it is on land located in the proximity of the sacred Aboriginal site of Bambara and is surrounded by National Park.

“By definition, all of Kariong is close to Bambara and surrounded by National Park,” he said.

“We are seeking to utilise our land which is not National Park and not a part of the Bambara cultural landscape.

“There is a pervading rhetoric that it is only appropriate for Aboriginal people to utilise our lands for cultural purposes or that our lands can only provide for us in a pre-colonial context.

“We are a community that exists in Australia today and we have very complex needs as a result of the European colonisation process – a process that for a long time excluded us from contemporary Australia.”

West said the Land Council was working closely with the State Government to develop a new planning framework to provide Aboriginal people with greater ability to determine the use of their land.

The suite of measures includes an Interim Development Delivery Plan that is a pipeline of sites that Darkinjung has prioritised to realise its economic, cultural and conservation aspirations.

“The Kariong project is one of a number Darkinjung has at various stages of assessment in the delivery pipeline, including proposals at Somersby, Wallarah and Lake Munmorah that total 331.5ha of its land,” he said.

“Of that land, 64% (213ha) is earmarked to be zoned environmental conservation and kept as green corridors.

“The remaining one third we hope to use to build homes, create jobs and secure education and training opportunities for not just Aboriginal people but everyone on the Central Coast.

The Kariong Planning Proposal is being assessed by the Hunter and Central Coast Regional Planning Panel.

DLALC Executive Kevin (Gavi) Duncan blasted the CEA on Facebook saying

All Aboriginal People on the Coast should rally together to counteract the racist attacks being made by Jake Cassar and his redneck followers.”

When no sites are found, they conjure the most absurd reasoning, while simultaneously claiming expertise:

Lisa is a “good person”, doing terrible things, justified by her belief her cause is just.

Even when it conflicts with such things as evidence, reality, and Aboriginal People, Culture, County.

That’s all it takes, just belief.

Well belief, plus 235 years of brutal colonisation, massacres, persecution, land theft, and disempowerment by settlers who believed they had more right to our land than we do.

What of the missionaries, the Protectorates? They had strong beliefs that we were punished for not giving the appearance of following.

They had a belief as well, and it seems remarkably similar to Lisa Bellamy’s?

But this is LISA’s STORY, in which she is the hero, saving the wilderness from the scary, mean, Aboriginal People.

3 responses to “Lisa Bellamy, White Supremacy cloaked as Allyship”

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    Chrissi Fox

    Such environmental activists may need to know more about exactly who they chose as an ally – racism is still racism whether you try to dress it up another way, and there’s no place for it in dealing with genuine Aboriginal people & representative groups. Reconciliation excludes modern acts of aggressive & outright Racism.

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